I think I have a death wish

So let me just say that what I’m doing is not healthy.

I keep on accepting more and more august weddings.
You say… now that’s not really that bad at least you get lots of money.
Yes, I suppose you’re right, I might not have to work the rest of the winter… or at least pay stuff off.

But let me give you a run down.
2 weddings is a decent month… you can stay afloat on that, specially when you’re young and single.
3 is a busy month

My busiest month prior to august has been May = 6 weddings
I felt like i was going crazy trying to get everything done… way into july.

now let’s skip to 8! That’s crazy stuff!

That’s about the time I said… “No More”

Then a friend calls… someone I’ve been teaching and working with to help her be a wedding photographer herself. She’s getting married… and I say… yes. Plus it will be one of the few travel weddings for me in August. (Texas and San Diego) She even kinda rearanges the time to fit around another wedding I have that day and the other reception I have in San Diego the next week. Cool stuff.

Then I get another one… and another one… and another one…

And I keep saying yes.
I really have stopped counting… suffice it to say… Buy stock in Caffienated sodas, because it’s gonna be a crazy month!

Hello mid-September I’m waiting for you!

Places to Go

So as much as I try to do these big long road trips and take thousands of pictures of new places.

I decided that I should try to explore more of my own backyard.

Places nearer to home.

A photographer that used to live around the area gave some good suggestions
Anyone else have some thoughts on the subject

His short list

• Backside of Timp
• Cascade Springs road
• Albion Basin (near snowbird)
• Timp Basin
• American Fork Canyon
• Silver Lake Flats
• Big Springs (S. Fork Canyon)
• Deer Creek Resevoir (Up on a ridge)

I want to make sure I hit these bigger spots as well, Further Away

• Great Basin National Park
• Some Trips to The Great Salt Lake
• Bryce
• Full Narrows Hike (Zions)
• Capitol Reef
• Tetons
• Glacier Nat. Park

Write in suggestions… Near and Far (not too far)… I already know lots of far away places i want to go.

…The Pictures

Presenting… The Pictures from the afore-mentioned trip.
They are divided into two sections.

SEE THE PICTURES HERE:
LA to Mexico (Incl…Joshua Tree, SD)
Zion’s National Park

Of the 3000+ pictures 150 were selected for these galleries

Website Update

In addition to updating my website with the last 7 events (that up until now could be found only on this Blog)
I have worked on making my photography site much more streamline and simple.

1. A simple intro page as the first thing you see.

2. A new portfolio which adds 30+ new pictures and subtracts 20+ old ones. For a small net gain.
I have put this new porfolio in a new Gallery format that is fact and effecient.
Its a lightroom gallery that is made available through TTG

3. A new layout for the Wedding Gallery portion of my page

4. And as I said before the last 7 wedding related galleries (Which have only been on this Blog until now)
Including the latest wedding.

Which brings me to this question… which gallery is better 1 | 2 ?? (For sharing 200 plus pictures… I know which one is better for small galleries)

Fireworks

 

Go To Gallery

75 Pictures

Yesterday (4th of July) I took pictures at the stadium of fire.
I was able to bring in my tripod and set it up (barely) right in front of me (not a lot of room) and snap some pretty cool pictures.
If you want to take pictures of fireworks it’s best to zoom in and get parts and be more creative or abstract. You also want to stick to longer exposures so that you get the full effect of the fireworks. But I didn’t get anything that good with exposures above 4 seconds. It seems 3 seconds to about 1/2 would be about right (that’s just a guess from what I remember… no certain research and conclusions)
So basically good fireworks shots should be done with a tripod.

Lightroom - Even Better!

See Post for the rest of the story.

13 Points for Effective Apprentice Learning

Here are some thoughts on Tutoring or any kind of “non-official education”

For instance learning photography when being taught by a photographer or being taught privately a language.

Or being tutored in any valued subject.

13 Points for Effective Apprentice Learning:

Photo Blog??

I’ve been enjoying my photo blogs so far. Why?

There are a couple of reasons I love Photo Blogs…

#1 - Better than photo upload sites

Eyefetch which I found to be the best photography sharing site (Sorry deviant art and photo.net) was going incredibly slow and those sites are better when you have a group of friends to make better comments thant “great job”
I love the idea behind photo sites such as these, but in practice haven’t found them all that worthwhile. (Not their fault perhaps) Guess I needed more friends

#2 I found it much easier to add pictures.

#3 I enjoy looking at other photographer’s blogs… and wouldn’t bother looking at other sites to see their pictures… primarily because I know they update them more often. Therefore it makes sense to do what I like to view myself.

#4 It sure is a lot easier to throw up a new post rather than update my website.

#5 I get to check my stats… and that’s half of the fun of having a website.
That’s why I chose wordpress - because they have statistics of who’s viewing and how they’re getting there.

#6 They let me host the blog on my own site… hopefully driving traffic to that domain. And letting me have final say and control. Or they have a place to host it for me. (I’ve done both)

http://jarviestudios.com/blog/
http://scottjarvie.wordpress.com/

Yellowstone (Friends)

Full gallery

Pictures of Yellowstone are not found here… They are found HERE (On my photoblog)

These are pictures of me and the other 3 people that went to yellowstone.

Go here to see the full gallery of ME my roommate Ben his girlfriend Christy and his Brother Tyson

Here are a couple of those pictures.

Full gallery

FHE - Waterballoon Volleyball

Last monday I joined an FHE group to take pictures as they played waterbaloon volleyball. You can more or less see how the game is played through a couple of the pictures.

Other attractions at this FHE were a trampoline, Popsicles and of course an obligatory water balloon fight.

To access the full gallery you must have a Login and Password
Which typically means you need to be a member of the BYU 57th Ward.

See Full Gallery - 78 Pictures

If you a login and password please let me know I’d be more than happy to oblige.

To see some of the pictures continue below:

Giant Twister (Ward Activity)

 

My ward played a game of giant twister. I joined for the fun and in my capacity as ward photographer took a few pictures.
For some of the time I let some other people use the camera and take some shots so I could eat some Ice Cream and play a couple games.

This was a while back but I just now got around to editing the pictures and putting them up.

To access the full gallery you must have a Login and Password
Which typically means you need to be a member of the BYU 57th Ward.

See Full Gallery  - 46 Pictures

 If you a login and password please let me know I’d be more than happy to oblige.

Photo Blog…

So as the subtitle states: This isn’t the photoblog but it’s just as cool right?

On that note… I suppose I should start that up soon.

Why a Blog on photography? For the past little while I have enjoyed blogs by many good photographers specially those in the Utah area. I myself would much rather see their precise blogs of what they’ve been up to recently… up to the moment view of their progress and an insight into the market and what they’ve been doing, than comb through their online portfolios that are updated every blue moon.

For some reason it seems that often while their portfolios are rather plain the pictures on their blogs are beautiful and creative.
I also love hearing about their experiences doing the wedding, thoughts about the couple, thoughts about the area… perhaps they name the area and what they did to take the pictures.

There are also some photographers that share insights and strive to help others by sharing what they have already learned. I wholeheartedly believe that people should be activly engaged in sharing their talents with others. That’s why I love teaching photography (when the person really wants to).

So look forward to it coming soon!!!

NEWS June 6th: It’s Here!!!

www.jarviestudios.com/blog

GPS for the Camera?

Well I got a new toy for my camera.
A GPS unit that plugs into my Nikon D200.

Why does someone need a GPS for there camera? Well really you don’t.
For the nature of photography I pursue… I do.