My Top 5 Shots of 2012

Warning I do not foresee getting any more pictures this year that would make this list before Tuesday unless something extra ordinary happens, but if it does I reserve the right to update this list..:p

These are in no order they are just my top 5 favorites that I took:

Family Shots

Here are some Family images I tried to get during my holiday rounds (I forgot to get one of my Brother and Sister together...):


My Family:








Andrea's Family:

Trish

Trish, a photo by je.brewer on Flickr.

Took this quick snap of my sister at the family XMas gathering.

Feeling that I'm still a super-noob with composition and lighting I was really surprised on how well it came out with my on camera speed flash bouncing off the wood ceiling in and attempt to soften the hard evening light coming in the window from the left of the frame.

I'm still learning to use my flash better but this shot shows I'm heading in the right direction.

Now if only I was better at post processing to soften the image up a little.... :p

Bye Bye Instagram

Removed my account from the service today.

Not going to post pictures through your service when it clearly states in your Terms of Service that you can do what ever you want with my images but I can't except to share them with your permitted integration to other services (i.e. Facebook).

Prints For Sale! (Yes this is self promotion)

I have started and account over on RedBubble.com!

I have uploaded a few selected images for sale so feel free to go have a look here.

Disclaimer: All money earned from sales are going to fund the buying of newer/better camera equipment so please buy lots of stuff!!

Instagram Profiles

Hurray for instagram profiles!

Here is mine: http://instagram.com/jebrewer/

Google Opens Up

Never-before-seen photos from inside the heart of Google.

All kinds of awesome!

Shameless Plug

I've had a few people comment about my use of the About.me site and how they think the site is a pretty cool tool for centralizing links to all the areas you are at on the internet.

I agree with them, I love it. Here is mine: http://about.me/jasonbrewer

I try to go out there and change the picture I display about once a month even though no one really goes there (173 total views since I had the page created when the service was in first beta a year ago or so). This time I selected the new integrated Instagram tile feature. I think it's a little busy but I think I have it set so the text is not lost in it pretty well.

Feel free to tell me what you think, don't be shy!

Also post your About.me page in my comments section if you have one. I'd love to see it!

Need to get some pictures together!!

I need to sort through some of my best shots so far and get one of these made: http://moleskine.milkbooks.com/

They look awesome!

I swear I will pack all my camera gear and have it with me always!

That's me on the left with my online gaming friends of 12+ years. Except for the bride and groom (center two people) this is the first time I have met them in person!

I brought my camera with me to my friend's wedding this past weekend because I only planed on taking a few pictures of the ceremony and those of my friends (see above). So I wasn't thiking of bringing my flash or extra filters (see here for my camera). However as we waited for the reception it was pointed out that the photogrpher for the wedding was not going to be there for the reception. So I was asked to take extra pictures (not by the wedding couple by another close friend guest).

It started out OK as I'm still getting use to the camera and taking better pictures in general. The room was really well lit for the dinner and cake cutting but once that was done they turned down the lights for dancing I wished right away I had my external flash with me. I only had the pop-up flash and after looking at a few pictures to check them out to see how the flash made things looked I was horrified!
That pop up flash really was bad when I needed a little more light and not wash out everyone in a blinding supernova that came from the front of my camera.

All in all the pictures still turned out decently and the happy couple will have memories of reception events that other people where not taking.

Grats Mari and Chris hope your honeymoon is going smooth and you are actually relaxing and NOT trying to check up on work!!!

New Camera, New Fun

 

So I got this new camera a while back (Canon SX40 HS) that I’ve tried to be more active with in taking pictures. Here is the camera:

Here are links to photos I’ve taken with it:
Cedarburg WI
Milwaukee County Zoo
Milwaukee County Zoo-ala-Carte
Downtown Milwaukee WI

I’m really liking it and maybe next year I will upgrade to a full dSLR as my photo skill improve.