What a weekend

So there it is! The logo that I finally decided on. I had a lot of great advice from a lot of people that I really admire, but in the end I realized that especially in photography, you're selling yourself as much as your pictures, so the name in the thing is kind of a vital thing. I also joined back up with facebook, so if you are so inclined, go like my page, I'll appreciate it :-)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joshua-Blaney-PhotographyFilmmaking/183785438362926

I haven't updates since last week! That means I have a bunch of photos to show! Saturday morning I got to go to the Wheaton College football game, and that meant using my work's Canon 7d with a 70-200mm 2.8/f lens! It was absolutely fantastic. The picture from the last post was me using it to shoot video. Since my two jobs that I hold right now are editing and shooting video that's mainly what the football game was about, but that doesn't mean that I didn't get some great photos too. Check it out.

besides finding out that shooting a football game that starts in rain and ends in complete sunshine is kind of hard to figure out settings for, I also learned a great deal about shooting video using 200mm as a zoom, it's really difficult. I'll post here when I finish that video, it should be interesting and I definitely learned a lot. I guess we'll see how the whole thing turns out.

Saturday night was awesome. My friend Whitney was turning 24 and she had a 1920's murder mystery dinner. Armed with my 60d I went to work. I actually wore two different costumes to the party, so I was  a bit sad that I didn't get any pictures of myself while taking the pictures. Such is the life of a photographer I guess. I'll have to get used to that. Anyway, I learned a lot from this as well, namely that I need to get a 24 or 28 mm lens. A was backing into the wall a lot, which wasn't a terrible thing, but I would've liked to have captured more of the feel of the whole party. Anyway, here's a bit of the shots from the party.

Obviously I tried to go for a much more rustic feel, and I think I got the basic point across. I had a lot of fun, and it's a great thing to add to a portfolio. Anyway, that's what I've been up to as far as shooting goes. I'll write another blog here soon as far as meetings that I've had with other photographers and tips that I've picked up through the internet. Till then!

~Josh