Mustache Comp - Aaron

Well Kyle had suggested a while back that I add a colage of the Mustache March! portraits. So here they are, in all their glory. Bask in the warm glow of som magnificent mustachio'd men. Enjoy.

The Station and the Journey - Russ

Hey there. These three are from a short while ago now. Kyle and I had spent our final weekend in London and had made our way to London Victoria train station to head back to my fiancee's house. Despite being half an hour early, we missed our train because Kyle's luggage was so heavy we didn't get on the train quick enough! To kill time I snapped, and got that one of the dude on the phone. The other two were on the train - me playing with long exposures. Lemme know what you think.

David Paul - Nate

This is Aaron posting this photo for Nate because he took it with my camera. This is one of our good friends and bartenders at FSB, Dave. Hes a pretty angry guy most of the time, but once you get a couple brews in him he tends to lighten up. And if you get a few more in him he tends to want to wrestle. Im sure you all know the type.

New Lens Shenanigans - Aaron

So I just got my new lens in the mail today. it is the Nikon 10.5 mm 2.8 fisheye. Havent shot with a lot of fisheyes so I am pretty excited about experimenting with it. This is the first shot with it. Its actually a little HDR. Kyle, you need to hurry up and get back here, im trying to figure out RAW's and im having some issues. Let me know what you guys think.

Purdy Flowers - Aaron

Here is a little preview for some of the Wedding photos from my brothers wedding on the 23rd of june. There are all sorts of good macro opportunites in the Elizabethen Gardens in Manteo. Let me know what you think.

bored downtown-Nate

I got a little bored a week or so ago and decided to go snap a few shots downtown. There are quite a few interesting litle alley ways in wilmington. I love all the old brick.

everybodys a winner, johnny - kyle

contemplation

hubub


more of the same.

all ninjas must die - kyle

camo

butts (standard but euphemistic)


my lease ran up on my flat in london and i was homeless for a couple of days. this is how i killed some of the time. im going to miss that city. more to come later maybe.

long time no post

I have been reminiscing the last couple days about last summer and how much fun it was with everyone and so I thought I'd post a few pics I had lying around from last summer.. One of my favorite memories was fourth of July.. We had a big "family" dinner, stumbled down to watch the fireworks and came back and shot fireworks out of our crotches... good times. Miss you guys!

Beside the sea in Bognor-reee (Russ)

So this fella is a few months old, but I just dug it out, and had another play. Kyle and I had got up at 5am for a sunset shot while in Bognor Regis (south of England... crappy but fun sea-side resort). I stood in this position for quite a while, and snapped as I saw this runner coming by.

viva espana - kyle

bonus fancypants triptych




went to barcelona last week with molly where we had was an amazing time. these are some of the photos taken whilst whisking around the city. let me know what (or if) you think about these. ill put some more up later maybe. oh yeah, i got a holga. its very fun indeed but well see how i feel when i get the negatives back.

NOJ and MARK- Nate

This picture is about 2 and a 1/2 years old. I think it makes more sense if you know the personalities behind the faces. An old favorite of mine. Not because its a great picture just because its a great moment. It was taken in hawaii on an adventure from the north shore to the south shore of oahu.

Bird - Russ

Hey. Well Kyle let me rip on campus with his camera again. Although it was quite a warm day, the light wasn't great so I underexposed for quite a few shots, but hey it's all part of the learning. This little fella wouldn't leave me alone so I took a few shots of him, which I was quite happy about as I'm quite the nature geek...

The first one is my favourite of the two, and the second one is mainly up for the ridiculous amount of worms in his mouth! It was very much underexposed, but I like the content of the shot.

Bugs! - Aaron

So these are some that i dug up from my old camera. I really like macro stuff...and as it turns out..that shitty little point-and-shoot takes some pretty good lokin macros. The first one is a fly that i managed to take some pics of in my sink. The only reason why i was able to get so close is becuase i had swatted the fly down into the sink...he could walk but not fly. The second pic is of a grashopper that for whatever reason...sat right infront of my other bathroom door for about 2 hours one night. He was watching me...as you can see his pupil is looking right at you...and his antennae were moving the whole time..but he just let me shoot away. Same went for the 3rd pic of a leaf bug on the entrance to my parents house. The wood he is standing on is just the trim around the tile at their house...so that shold give you an idea how up close this thing is. The final one isnt what i would really call a macro, but its still pretty awesome. Its of the silk spider that lived on keiths front porch last summer. Being that im scared of spiders...and this thing was the size of my hand...i was proud of myself to get so close. Let me know what you guys think of them.

Skate Sesh-Nate

ok so this is kind of a different one from a recent skate session. Not really all that great of a photo but there is something pleasing about it to me. what do you all think would improve it depth of field wise? just interested to see what you all would change.

Hillbilly party - Aaron

So Sunday night was a rip-roarin' good time at keiths Hillbilly party. The first pic is of Corey, our kitchen manager, who likes to steal pockets, as well as keiths ass, who got smacked all night by everybody in the party.

defeeted? - Russ

Hey there. These are the feet of my friend Emily. I'm a real sucker for symmetry, particularly if it's not really exactly symmetrical. It's what I kinda liked about the first picture in my shed collection I think. Anyways, Emily's feet looked cool when they went into photoshop, and I've done two quite different things. The first one is clearly unsharpen-masked a lot in order to make everything pop to an extreme level, and the subtlety and texture of the feet in the second does something very different I think. I'm curious as to which one people prefer?

thank you internet - kyle

id like to thank the internet for this.

The Garden Shed - Russ

Hey hey. Well, last week I went home to see my new nephew, and Kyle leant me his camera for the day. While I was home, I thought I'd take a look in my garden, and spent some time with my very, very old shed. I remember as a kid hating going down there because it's so grim and full of cobwebs (as you can see on the last pic), but now it's a photographer's playground. I think all the shots are quite simple and angular, which I know Kyle's been enjoying recently, and I'm starting to like a lot. I used quite a lot of unsharpen mask to give each shot a bit more punch. Lemme know what you think.

boogaloo - kyle

so latley ive gotten the urge to buy a shitty camera. its either gonna be a holga or a lomo. i had this same urge about a year ago, but i was able to fight it off. not so sure if i can this time. from what ive seen i think i like the images that the lomos usually produce, but id prefer the holgas medium format. on the coolness/stupidness scale, the holgas got a plastic lens (seriously, who buys the holga with the glass lens) but the lomos are made in mother russia (well, mother china now, so i guess they just roll communist) and are made of solid metal. oh and the lomos viewfinder is slightly less unusable than the holgas, so i guess thats a plus. so what do you guys think? any one want to buy a holga and ill buy a lomo or vice versa and just trade off? is any one reading this? do i have a stupid camera fetish (dont think ive forgotten about you olympus pen half frame camera)? am i the only one that has the singing skittles rabbit commercial looping on youtube? its late, theres a 5hr time difference...you guys do the math.

the picture. its my best crack at getting a lomo look. let me know what you think about the actual picture itself, cause it might just be stupid and i dont know it. aaron and i were talking about that, what makes a picture good. neither of us knew. so chime in with any answers if you got em. fuck im tired. off to bed. nighty night.

ps. been processing a shitload of film, ill scan and post em sometime when im feeling productive.

Minimalism - Aaron

So Kyle and I got to talking about minimalist photos the other day, as you can see from his last post. So here are a few from when I first got my D70. The first one is a stoplight right around the corner from my house. The second one is of some Christmas Lights outside of Stephanie's apartment. The last one is of some roadside barells on the way back from Greenville.

Draganized - Joe

Here are some pictures I attempted to draganize. I am getting better with the effect but its kind of a tough process to get used to. There are so many ways you can tweak it and its hard to make choices with so many options. I am hoping to get better at it but I haven't had time to make any new ones lately. I think it works best with a darker style picture with high contrast because it gives it that gritty look.

Viva Mexico-Nate

Here is a photo from my old digital that i took in one of my favorite places. I've been to Mexico three times and it is always a great trip. This was taken in a tiny little fishing village right on the outskirts of Sayulita.

Mr. Mistoffelees - Kyle

i took these the same day as russell took his photos below. after russell photographed in geese shit for a while, we kind of wandered around without any agenda. as we happened to stroll by the pond, i was a bit smitten with the way the light was hitting it. the iso is up in nasty grain territory since it was pretty late in the evening but what are you gonna do.

bonus points for russell's dead eye rock throwing ability for the ripple in the second pic. it took a a few exposures, but he must have gotten tired of me yelling at him so he nailed it on this one. as a general rule of thumb, the british cant do anything athletic with their upper body (throwing, swinging, etc), but russ rose to the occasion. thanks buddy.

bonus attack kitty picture!

i was shooting floating things in the pond when russ pointed out this evil feline running behind me. it was a quick snap but it speaks for itself.

quick cat tip: kitty + squirrel = bloodbath. kitty + masking tape on their feet = hours of fun.