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Senior Portrait Photography

woo senior portrait photography stuff I do for people ... most recent.

lets take down superficiality.

via ypulse: "Sociologists have begun to question the effect of all this exhibitionism on young people. Can they form durable identities off-camera, or are they so used to producing their images for outside consumption that images have replaced their essences? Will a generation for whom all secrets are fair game and every private moment can become public trust each other and form intimate relationships?"

Why not just be who you are instead of just playing a role?


"What do you think the implications are of teens performing for an imagined wider audience or even self branding vs. documenting?"

aaah it's all about selling yourself.

VIMEO

After the dawn and wild success of youtube, video upload sites have popped up all over the internet. Poor quality, slow uploading, cumbersome interface, low user interaction, heavyset restrictions ... they all try to offer something "special" that the other does not have. Signing up for countless video sites and uploading a video or two during the past two years, I forget about them, they shut down, or I can't get a grip on their design. It was amazing how fast Youtube shot off past the oblivion of lame websites into something frequented upon by the masses. My gripe on youtube is the horrendous upload quality. Sure, they get thousands upon thousands of uploads daily - their servers must be running out the door - but quality, please. It's good that they are trying to up the quality now. Another great feature they released is viewer location statistics ... which is semi-hepful and interesting to look at.

I have found that Vimeo is a great alternative to youtube ... but it shouldn't necessarily take the place of it. Vimeo's quality is beautiful, interface is crip, and it has a nice community base. It has this sort of "small town" feel in comparison to Youtube's tokyo train station inundation. Vimeo's browsing feature is lacking, but that's what favourite lurking and channel subscriptions are for. (I love favourite lurking ... it is becoming my favourite "im bored" past times when my RSS feeds run dry) In a way, Vimeo is like the flickr of videos (minus the "paying for unlimited uploads" and the send-to-group feature [Vimeo's got the "Channels" feature, but only Admin of that channel can add videos]). Though Vimeo has a 500mb-per-week upload allowance, it is plenty enough to upload almost whatever you want that you created.





I WISH FLICKR WOULD OPEN UP A VIDEO UPLOAD SECTION OF ITS OWN. That would be amazing to see video uploads integrated with pictures ... in the same stream, able to be submitted to groups, downloaded, tagged, geotagged, added to sets and collections, and such. I would totally pay more for the feature.

life is

good.

These past two weeks

Time is going, going, gone. GONE. FAST. faster and faster and faster. It is overwhelming, and just thinking about about it strikes a match of anxiety to light the ever-growing pile of things to be done.

These past two.5 weeks have been my busiest ever. Photoshoots nonstop, editing nonstop, and swimming. At least there was some money involved.

Photoshoots! (out of order)
- Kelsey's Fashion Folio shots (7/53)
- Jessamin's maternity photoshoot (75)
- Nina's Senior Pictures (60)
- Stephanie's Senior Pictures (69)
- Underwater testrun @ Makalawena (64)
- Kohanaiki Surfing photography testrun (25)
- Swimming Team pictures/underwater testrun (27)
- Soccer game (64)
- Dad's portraits for advertising (6)
- Kamehameha Swimming Meet (101)
- HPA Swimming Meet (52)
- Winterball (105)
- Jason/Steve "photojournalism" shoot (240)

**none of which includes how many I had to delete, probably 2x more shots**

Videos!
- Finishing the Europe trip video (finished the 3-min, need to do a 30-1min clip)
- KHS Swimming Team Video
- New Pickup Lines Video

Upcoming
- Psychotic Anti-drug zombie video (need to plan)
- "Parody Sue" Movie (need to determine plot, character issues, etc before Spring Break)
- More senior portrait sessions
- More Jason/Steve stuff

Oh, and YEARBOOK
- Upload a whole bunch of photos for everything
- Create "Clubs" Divider
- Create "Student Life" Divider
- Draft up an "extreme sports" page



Its REALLY not funny how everything either never happens or happens all at once.

wordage

somday i gotta put these in to practice. random list created by me and lea during 2nd period.

§ Abduco: to lead, or take away / detach, withdraw.

§ Aberration: deviation from truth or moral rectitude.

§ Abrogate: cancel, deny, repeal.

§ Abtruse: difficult to understand.

§ Accolade: honor, praise.

§ Acerbus: bitter, gloomy, dark.

§ Ascetic: severly simple.

§ Acidus: sharp, sour.

§ Acsi: as if

§ Acquiescence: to agree.

§ Adherent: a person who follows or upholds a leader, cause.

§ Advocate: recommend publicly.

§ Ambivalent: uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.

§ Ancillary: assisting.

§ Anomaly: an incongruity or inconsistency.

§ Antipodal: diametrically opposite.

§ Antithesis: opposition; contrast.

§ Amorphus: lacking in shape.

§ Antediluvian: out-dated.

§ Aperte: openly, frankly.

§ Apocryphal: of doubtful authorship or authenticity.

§ Apparatus: equipment, gear, machinery / splendor, magnificence.

§ Apposite: suitable; well-adapted; pertinent; relevant.

§ Archetype: prototype.

§ Ascertain: to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine.

§ Ascribe: to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.

§ Astute: clever; cunning; ingenious; shrewd.

§ Austere: severely plain.

§ Axiom: a self-evident truth that requires no proof.

§ Bigot: narrow-minded, prejudiced person.

§ Blatant: obvious.

§ Blithe: carefree, spirited.

§ Bolster: support

§ Broach: to mention or suggest for the first time.

§ Candidus: bright, shining, white.

§ Categorical: unqualified and unconditional.

§ Certe certo: (adv) certainly, assuredly.

§ Cetera: for the rest, otherwise.

§ Circumscribe: to mark off; define, limit.

§ Cogent: to the point; relevant; pertinent.

§ Cognizant: aware.

§ Comprehensive: covering or involving much.

§ Conjecture: guess; speculation.

§ Consensus: majority of opinion.

§ Construe: to deduce by inference or interpretation; infer.

§ Contention: a struggling together in opposition; strife.

§ Corollary: a natural consequence or result.

§ Correlate: mutually or reciprocally related.

§ Corroborate: to make more certain; confirm.

§ Credulous: gullible.

§ Crux: a perplexing difficulty.

§ Curtail: to cut short.

§ Definitive: most reliable or complete.

§ Delineate: to portray in words; describe or outline with precision.

§ Depict: to represent or characterize in words; describe.

§ Derelict: abandoned, rundown.

§ Dialectical: relating to logic.

§ Diatribe: stream of criticism.

§ Dichotomy: division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups.

§ Dictum: an authoritative pronouncement.

§ Didactic: inclined to teach or lecture others too much.

§ Diffident: lacking confidence.

§ Digress: to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.

§ Discern: to distinguish or discriminate.

§ Discrepancy: an instance of difference or inconsistency.

§ Disinterested: not interested; indifferent.

§ Disparate: distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar.

§ Dispassionate: free from or unaffected by passion.

§ Dogmatic: opinionated.

§ Dubious: wavering or hesitating in opinion.

§ Eclectic: selecting or choosing from various sources.

§ Effervescent: bubbly, high spirits or animation.

§ Elicit: to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke.

§ Empirical: derived from or guided by experience or experiment.

§ Endemic: belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place.

§ Enigma: puzzle, mystery.

§ Enshroud: cover.

§ Envenom: to cause bitterness.

§ Ephemeral: lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory.

§ Epistemological: a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.

§ Equivocal: allowing the possibility of several different meanings.

§ Esoteric: belonging to the select few.

§ Euphemism: the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.

§ Evoke: to call up or produce

§ Exemplify: to show or illustrate by example.

§ Exhaustive: comprehensive; thorough.

§ Exigency: urgency.

§ Expedient: a means to an end.

§ Expedite: make faster.

§ Explicate: to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.

§ Explicit: clearly developed or formulated.

§ Exposition: the act of expounding, setting forth, or explaining.

§ Extraneous: not pertinent; irrelevant.

§ Extrinsic: being outside a thing; outward or external.

§ Facet: aspect; phase.

§ Facile: easily.

§ Fallacy: erroneousness.

§ Fastidious: hard to please.

§ Faux Pas: A social blunder.

§ Finis: end, limit, boundary, purpose.

§ Flagrant: shockingly noticeable or evident.

§ Fortuitous: lucky; accidental.

§ Generic: without a brand.

§ Germane: relevant.

§ Gestalt: a unified whole.

§ Glib: superficial in speech.

§ Hyperbole: grossly exaggerated speech.

§ Iam: moreover, henceforth, indeed, just, further.

§ Ideology: the body of doctrine, myth, belief.

§ Idiosyncratic: peculiar to the individual.

§ Impartial: not partial or biased; fair; just.

§ Implication: an indirect indication; a suggestion.

§ Implicit: implied, rather than expressly stated.

§ Impromptu: unrehearsed, spontaneous.

§ Incontrovertible: not open to question or dispute; indisputable.

§ Indigenous: innate; inherent; natural.

§ Inadvertent: unintentional.

§ Incessant: continual.

§ Inconspicuous: not easily seen.

§ Indolence: laziness.

§ Ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable.

§ Inevitable: unable to be avoided.

§ Inexorable: unyielding; unalterable.

§ Infer: imply, conclude.

§ Inherent: existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute.

§ Integral: necessary to the completeness of the whole.

§ Intermittent: not continuous, on and off.

§ Intrinsic: belonging to a thing by its very nature.

§ Invoke: to cause, call forth, or bring about.

§ Irreproachable: unable to be criticized.

§ Ipso facto: by the fact itself.

§ Irrevocable: unalterable.

§ Juxtapose: to place close together or side by side.

§ Laconic: brief, to the point.

§ Lucid: clear, shining, bright.

§ Manifest: readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain.

§ Marginal: almost insufficient.

§ Maverick: loner.

§ Milieu: environment.

§ Minutiae: small details.

§ Neoteric: recent in origin : modern.

§ Non sequitur: "it does not follow," an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises.

§ Nuance: a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response.

§ Obfuscate: deliberately making something difficult to understand.

§ Oblique: indirect.

§ Objectivity: unbiased.

§ Obscure: hard to perceive.

§ Orthodox: customary or conventional, as a means or method; established.

§ Ostensible: apparent, evident, or conspicuous.

§ Paradigm: a display in fixed arrangement of such a set.

§ Paradox: a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

§ Paragon: a perfect example.

§ Parallel: analogous.

§ Parochial: very limited or narrow scope.

§ Partisan: a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.

§ Patent: to originate and establish as one's own.

§ Pedantic: overly concerned with minute details.

§ Peripheral: concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question.

§ Pertinent: relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant.

§ Peruse: to survey or examine in detail.

§ Pervasive: to become spread throughout all parts of.

§ Pious: very religious.

§ Pivotal: of vital or critical importance.

§ Platitude: a flat, dull, or trite remark.

§ Plausible: worthy of confidence or trust.

§ Pococurante: To show high spirits or animation.

§ Postulate: to ask, demand, or claim.

§ Pragmatic: opinionated.

§ Precedent: any act, decision, or case that serves as a guide or justification for subsequent situations.

§ Preclude: to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible.

§ Preemptive: taken as a measure against something possible, anticipated, or feared.

§ Premise: a basis, stated or assumed, on which reasoning proceeds.

§ Presage: indicate.

§ Presuppose: suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.

§ Profound: having deep insight or understanding.

§ Proponent: a person who supports a cause or doctrine; adherent.

§ Propound: set forth; propose.

§ Purported: reputed or claimed; alleged.

§ Putative: commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed.

§ Qualify: to be fitted or competent for something.

§ Quintessential: the most perfect embodiment of something.

§ Quixotic: impractically idealistic.

§ Ramification: a development or consequence growing out of and sometimes complicating a problem.

§ Rationale: the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something.

§ Rebut: to oppose by contrary proof.

§ Recapitulate: to review by a brief summary.

§ Reticent: restrained; uncommunicative.

§ Reciprocal: given, performed, felt, etc., in return.

§ Redress: to put right what was wrong.

§ Redundant: repetitive.

§ Refute: to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.

§ Repercussion: an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action.

§ Repudiate: shun, eschew.

§ Requisite: required or necessary for a particular purpose.

§ Resonant: echoing.

§ Retrospect: to look back in thought; refer back.

§ Rhetorical: used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.

§ Riveting: fascinating.

§ Sacrilegious: grossly irreverent toward what is or is held to be sacred.

§ Salsus: salty, witty.

§ Sanguine: optimistic, cheerful.

§ Schism: division or disunion.

§ Scrutinize: to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.

§ Simpatico: likeable.

§ Sine qua non: “without which it could not be,” an essential element or condition.

§ Singular: separate; individual.

§ Solace: comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or distress; consolation.

§ Specious: superficially pleasing or plausible.

§ Status Quo: the existing state or condition.

§ Stickler: one who is strict about rules or details.

§ Stratify: to form or place in strata or layers.

§ Stoic: indifferent to pleasure or pain.

§ Subjective: existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought.

§ Subsidiary: subordinate or secondary.

§ Substantiate: to establish by proof or competent evidence.

§ Subtle: so slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive.

§ Sui generis: being the only example of its kind; unique.

§ Superfluous: being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.

§ Supposition: assumption; hypothesis.

§ Surmise: to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.

§ Surrogate: a substitute.

§ Synthesis: a complex whole formed by combining.

§ Tacit: understood without being openly expressed; implied.

§ Tangential: slightly connected.

§ Tangible: definite; not vague or elusive.

§ Tantamount: equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification.

§ Tawdry: of little value.

§ Tedium: boredom.

§ Tenable: capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute.

§ Tenacious: stubborn.

§ Tenuous: of slight importance or significance; unsubstantial.

§ Tirade: stream of verbal abuse.

§ Totter: to walk unsteadily.

§ Transitory: lasting only a short time; brief; short-lived; temporary.

§ Trite: stale.

§ Truism: a self-evident, obvious truth.

§ Ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere.

§ Underlying: fundamental; basic.

§ Underscore: emphasize.

§ Vapid: dull, uninspiring.

§ Verisimilar: true to life; giving the appearance of reality.

§ Verisimilitude: the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability.

§ Vestige: a very slight trace or amount of something.

§ Viable: practicable; workable.

§ Vicarious: felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another.

§ Waffle: talk nonsense.

§ Weltanschauung: the overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.

§ Zeitgeist: the spirit of the time.

www.animoto.com

aaah. special. push button videos. i wish this feature was more editable though - it didn't sequence as well as I expected.

dec10 036 kua bay

dec10 036 kua bay, originally uploaded by clashed.

bloggage

woooo

this is ablog post. funness.