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Derek — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:00:28 +0000

My nephew Landon having a grand ol’ time.

Straight Pimpin’ It

Derek — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:52:25 +0000

Clinking Tecates in the Tower Suites at Encore in Las Vegas. One of my bosses decided to throw an impromptu boys weekend in Vegas and set us up in a bunch of amazing suites at the Encore Towers.

Oregon Drive

Derek — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:57:02 +0000

A timelapse of a drive I took with a friend from his house in Portland to the trailhead of Angels Rest Hike in Bridal Veil, Oregon.

CO2OC

Derek — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:25:23 +0000

Time-lapse of my flight from Denver Colorado to Santa Ana California.

GoPro HD Hero – 1 frame every 5 seconds

Music: “Go do” by Jónsi

Burbank to Hollywood in 22 Seconds

Derek — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:33:44 +0000

After waiting a long time to receive my HD Hero helmetcam from when I ordered it on the NAB showroom floor, it finally arrived and I wanted to give it a test run. I mounted the camera to the inside of my windshield and set the camera to time-lapse mode. I had it take 1 picture every 2 seconds and then played it back at 24fps. I did some cropping and processing in After Effects.

Music: “Vanished” by Crystal Castles

Legit

Derek — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:00:43 +0000

At his 2nd birthday party, Landon received a crisp one hundred dollar bill as a gift. The way he was holding it up to inspect it made me think he was checking for the watermark to make sure it was legit.

Night Night Casey

Derek — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:25:54 +0000

Poor little guy was all tuckered out after a long day of not breaking world records and watching the worst pirate dinner show ever.

vmg

Derek — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:35:59 +0000

This is actually a still frame from a video I shot for my work the other day. She was lit only by the light of a video playing on a projector. Beautiful 5D low-light video.

model: Victoria M-G

Let’s-a-Go!

Derek — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:02:29 +0000

These awesome little Mario Kart figures are Gashapon toys from Japan, also known as capsule toys. Unlike most of the little quarter vending machines here in the US, the ones in Japan are a little bit more spendy (1 yen/$1) but at least you get a much higher quality toy. I think I must have spent a good $20 trying to get the complete set while I was there, which at the time, only consisted of Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and Peach. Peach was the stubborn one, and I ended up buying her on ebay for a few bucks, but then they came out with a few more in a second set that I later got as a gift.

The Bride

Derek — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:48:27 +0000

This particular photo was more or less an experiment with post processing to see if I could take the raw image and bring it to a point that I actually liked. I decided to bring the image into After Effects, a motion graphics application, to do some of the processing like the light rays and lens flare since effects as such are much easier to create and control within there.

After some time in AE and Photoshop I decided to stop and critique. It didn’t quite fit into the category of a traditional wedding photo, but I was very pleased with the outcome, as were the bride and groom.

I’ve also included the original photo to see where it started and where it ended up.