Ramblings of a Tech Guy

New Camera

I am purchasing a new Digital Camera today! Blake is not going to stand a chance in a photography war after today!

Trying to get published

Hey everyone! I am trying to get published for some of my photography. I would love for you to give me some love and go by and vote on my picture that is up now. It is a pic of our allen and heath mixer! So, show me some love and go vote: Lyrical Bliss. Thank you so much, I will let you know how it goes.

The publishing is for JPG Magazine. I have a few pictures there, so go by and give them a look, here!

Thanks Again!

A little friendly competition ...

So Blake and I decided to have a little friendly competition last night to see whose pictures would turn out better! Of course, I knew in my heart, that his would be better (shhhh, dont tell him)! You see, Blake has a little history in graphics and photography! So anyway, we decided that for one hour we would go our seperate ways and see whose pictures turned out better. The rules were that you had to stay on the campus of Harmony Hill and the pictures had to be a macro picture. (Macro means close up.) A true macro picture will have a center focused idea with everything else a little blurry around it! The heat was on. Blake got off to a good start. Oh btw we only had an hour, what Blake doesnt say in his post, that 15 minutes of my hour I was fixing a printer for a staff member. Blake gets credit in his post for his creativity because he went to other buildings, but I didnt have time to! Anyway, it was fun, I am proud of my pictures. So go take a look and come back and comment on whose you like more!

Jimmy's Pictures

Blake's Pictures

Explaining "iFruit" picture

I have had a question or two about the iFruit graphic we did for Donnie. So I thought I would offer you a behind the scenes look at it.

1. Yes it is a real picture.
2. Yes I took the picture
3. No the iPhone is not real.
4. The picture is not a stock photo!
5. Am I going to submit the picture for publishing? Yes!

Here is how we made it:

I was at the office late and had to get this graphic done. I really had an idea of trying to gather all the different kinds of trees and making a collage out of it with iFruit as the root. I just started brainstorming ideas of something different. I finally came up with going to Walmart and gettig some fruit and a bowl. Blake had a set of iPod video cables that were broke. So I thought that we could get the cables and shove them in the fruit. So at Walmart we got the fruit and the bowl. We got back to the church and found a white sheet. Arranged the fruit in the bowl, shoved cables into fruit, put light on it, and started taking pictures. The iPhone was actually an iPod leaned up against the bowl.

We used a: Lowel Tota light w/ diffuser.
FujiFilm FinePix S7000 Camera
White sheet
A Bowl
Some fruit
iPod
iPod AV Cable

I love how this graphic came out. After taking the picture, we imported it into Photoshop. From there Blake did his thing to paste the iPhone face over it.

So all in all, I loved working on this project. It was fun and challenging. Hopefully the image will bring glory to God as Donnie teaches our students about the fruits of the spirit.

Pictures

Took some pictures today for a graphic for this Sunday's sermon. This is one of my favorites!

Many thanks to Daniel Rowe for letting me use his photographic side!

Casino Royale

I finally got the chance to sit down long enough to watchCasino Royale.  It was my favorite Bond movie so far!  It kinda looses you about 3/4 way through the movie, but picks up in the end!  I give it a 4 out of 5!  If you get a chance, it is definitely worth your time!

Shooting a new Commercial

Today, we are shooting a new commercial for the church!  I am excited about how much we are really trying to step it up and look at advertising in new ways!  It is gonna be an awesome commercial!  A lot of take down and set up, but its gonna be worth it!  40 Days of community is going great!  This past week we had 525 people in the first worship service!  It was awesome, praying for 550 this week!  Cant wait to see what God has for us 6 months from now!

So its time for me to step up...

So for Christmas I got a new LCD flat screen tv!  It is so cool!  But one problem, I need cable!  So the two channels we have always got from the good old faithful rabbitears just dont cut it with the new tv!  So anyone have any ideas for who I should use!  There's really only three options I know of: Local Cable, Dish, or DirectTV.  Of course it has to be high def for me to enjoy the trueness of the HD tv!  So I need your help, anyone have any advice?