Caitlin

It's not all that easy to get in to the studio here in Florence... so we use what light we can.

sunny days

I haven't really updated in a while. I must say. the one thing i miss most about san jose is the free, anytime access i had to the photo studio and the photo lab equipment. It made it so much easier to go out and take pictures. Here i have to get a little more creative with natural light. I wish i at least had a flash with me. sigh. 'cest la vie. Wine's cheaper here so i guess that's the equalizer.

anyway! here's some pictures i've taken for my photo class so far. nothing too special. just a window and a beautiful girl. I edited them a little more on the school computer so these aren't the final edits. but these are good enough to show i think.

Florence.

These be my touristy pictures. Questo sono le mie foto touristicheI found my tower!!!!! ho trovato la mia torre!!!!
some guy on a horse. un tizio su un cavallo
the tourguide was saying something about how it was like a spiraling tower or something...
policemen! polizia
an old tower. you know they're the original cuz they still have the square things at the top.


door. Porta

This is the classroom in which i will be studying italian. questa e' la classe in cui mi sara studiare l'italiano.

A friend/customer/regular at the garage suggested i take pictures of old doors in italy. I had planned on doing something like that.

When i came across a bike chained next to a wall in one of the alleyways in florence i knew right away what my subject matter was going to be.

I love the contrast of the bright colored bikes against the camel and grey of the old florentine brick walls.

here's the start of what i have.

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MUCH more to come. :)

-drea

i've been out of the US for about 9 hours.

I spent 9 HOURS on a plane next to a small indian girl that kept crossing the armrest barrier. sigh. at least they were cute. I'm in frankfurt germany on a 4ish hour layover right now. trying to watch true blood as it streams (slowly) over the computer. i can't wait to get to a country were i can at least kind of understand the language.

i'm paying 8 euros for this internet. sigh.

This is not a post about photography. buuut. there's a lot of photographic potential in where i'm going? does that count?

OH! and I almost forgot!

Credits for the past sets of images are as follows...

Model- Renata Gar (you have to tell me how to spell the rest of your last name!)

MUA- Phi Phi Dihn

Hair- Sandra Moreno and Angelica Delao

Location- Fabers Cyclery in Downtown San Jose

Alex who owns the place also assisted me for a little while.

and Jessica Yano and Jenna Barjam assisted as well by lending clothes, accessories and their apartment.

Here's a few more pictures from my shoot with Renata. Also, I finally created my own signature.

I'm obsessed

My favorite shoot by far. i couldn't have done it without all of my amazing friends who came through to help me out (even when it was at the last minute!) :)

and another! this one is barely edited so far.

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Just a preview for everyone of what i did today.

I love renata, she's such a trooper. We worked today from 1130-945

Renata

This is long overdue, but a couple months? ago I went to the beach to get some practice shooting with my friend and model Renata. She's amazing on the runway and is starting to get into print.

here's my favorites.

I really should have put my name on these butttt i'm lazy right now.

Jared

He wanted some pictures for a website he's going to make

I felt like getting a little artsy with the editing.

I feel like this could be a Calvin Klein Ad or something. If he were wearing calvin Klein.

Finally everything came together!

Last day of class. Tearing down the gallery.

This was floating in a developing tray filled with water.

All together now.

It's so satisfying to see your stuff up in a gallery.