Design Your Mind

I am moving my bloggery to Flickr. I like it better. Sorry to my like 2 followers.

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Wow! These past few days have been crazy paced. I haven’t stopped to smell the roses in a while, mainly because I have been busy “CraigsListing”, hanging with friends and taking pictures. When I say “CraigsListing” I am referring to the act of using Craig’s List (rather successfully for me actually). I have been posting my gear on there and getting almost an instant response to it all. Within 15 minutes of posting I will get a hit and have a meeting setup at a local coffee house. This is a good thing, very good in fact. I have been able to trade up both times. Traded my 16-35mm f/2.8L for a 24-105mm f/4 clean across and my speedlight for an 85mm f/1.8. I needed these lenses. NEEDED THEM! (Cookie Monster voice).

The past few days have comprised of me testing out my new gear. Hence why I have been so busy. Busy = fun and smelling the roses is for the birds.

Sidenote: Something interesting I’ve noticed about this blog; I seem to only post photo related content on it. I want to clarify that I am a graphic designer who takes photos and not photographer who is a part time graphic designer

I’m sure we’ll chat,
Aaron Trigg
www.doughboyconcepts.com

All last weekend I was down in Southern Oregon hanging with friends and family. It was a much needed little break. The occasion was my niece’s birthday. She is the big 2 now. She is getting so big so fast. I cant believe my eyes.

While I was down there in Grants Pass I was able to do a few photos shoots. I’d figured I would share the shots from the weekend with you guys. Let me know what you think. I think they turned out rad, but hey, that’s my biased opinion.

Click here to my Flickr Photostream.

If you follow the link above, there are so many more where these came from. I mean like a lot. Oh, and there are photos from the concert I went to at the Sherwood Coffee Company. That was a fun show to be at.

Cheers,
Aaron
www.doughboyconcepts.com

I can’t believe how much better my lighting class has made me understand light. There are a lot of principals and theories that I did not know about which I wouldn’t have been able to understand unless dealing with it on a personal level. Understanding the ‘family of angles’, how shadows cast and the inverse square law do not just absorb into your brain without hands on practice. All college text books are filled to the brim with knowledge that can teach you anything but you can’t demonstrate an understanding of something just be reading it and taking a test. That is why I enjoy my lighting class. We will read from the book a few fundamental lighting principals and then practice them all day in class. It can’t get any better then that.

My latest assignment I have been working on for class is glass. For some, this is the most difficult type of photography, which I totally agree with and can sympathize. My teacher keeps telling us, “If you understand how to light glass you can light anything.” It is so true! There is nothing that glass won’t throw at you; shadows, glare, reflection, the whole gamut and the kitchen sink.

These few pictures are my attempt at lighting glass and demonstrating the light techniques I have learned. Enjoy.

The water bottles are not glass but they use the same principals. Its fun to make things that are so boring into things that are extraordinary.

Cheers,
Aaron

I have been so swamped with school that I forgot that I even had a blog. Believe me, when you go to school for as long as I have you kind of forget about everything else. Everything seems to just get pushed back or swept under the rug to allow school to become priority. In this case, a little bit of both has occurred making blogging nearly impossible.

What have I been up to?
School, plain and simple is what I have been up to. I have been struggling in my classes this quarter because of how boring they are (Aaron struggling? No...). I am not use to being so bored in class to the point of falling asleep. It has never happened to me. This quarter though I cant seem to keep my eyes open in two of my classes; 20th Century Design Theory and Caves to Cathedrals. As for my other two classes, Intro to Sustainability and Photography Lighting 102, I could not ask for more. Intro to sustainability is a straight forward but interesting class. I could sit in that class all day and learn about biomimicry and ‘cradle to cradle’. All that stuff  is interesting to me. I like to know what impact I am having when I do the things I do. As for my photo class, of course I love that class. Its what I do. Here is some of my homework if you would like to see:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doughboyconcepts
Look for the lighting assignments.

Anywho, I'm going to get some grub.
Aaron