Have I mentioned that I really like Wordpress 2.5? It’s simple and clean. The layout is a lot more intuitive and it works so well. I might be over doing it but I think Wordpress 2.5 has put the fun back into blogging again. I’ve been trying to get into the groove of blogging more often but it’s been hard getting the ball rolling.
With this update the visual changes seems to be stimulating my desire to blog. Hopefully this steam will hold up and I’ll be blogging more regularly.
Those of you who are not familiar with Wordpress, the new update I speak of is the back-end system. Where the entries and everything is created. This is called the Dashboard. A job well done and it inspires me to make a custom Facedown Photography theme. But I want to make it simple, clean, and fun. It’ll be a challenge but I hope something nice will come out of it.
My old college friends Alex and Eve got married a few weeks ago. They invited me to be a photographer at their wedding. It was a lot of fun seeing people I went to college with and old faces I haven’t seen for years since moving out to San Francisco. I think because I was photographing my friends I had a lot of fun.
I have a lot of respect for wedding photographers. I am in no shape or form a wedding photographer. I enjoy photographing my friends. But to do it as a profession. It doesn’t appeal to me. I was shooting pretty conservatively since there was a hired wedding photographer. With rehearsal shots and shots from the actual wedding I ended up with a image count of 740 pictures. Out of all those only 231 photos made the cut.
I realized more and more I enjoy children’s photography/portraiture. I often hear wedding photographers enjoying their chance to get to know their clients and engage in a way that they become part of each others lives. Which I think is a huge key to success in building any sort of business. I on the other hand I enjoy getting to know children. I enjoy having talks with them, watching movies or cartoons with them, or playing video games or hanging out at the park.
I simply have fun. Which makes photographing them so much more enjoyable. Don’t get me wrong wedding photography can be very fun! Just check out photographers like Mike Colon or Kenny Kim. They enjoy their job. They have a passion and excitement for their industry that amazes me. My joy comes from taking photos of kids.
Anywho I’m about half way through editing Alex and Eve’s wedding photos. I haven’t had much time lately but I hope to have them finished in a few days. Once they are done I’ll post them up here.
Until then here is a collage I made of the groomsmen to act as a teaser. Enjoy!
I just updated my blog which runs on Wordpress to their latest version 2.5. I must say it is very nice. It’s so clean. I really like the new back end a lot. It’s easy on the eyes and the way the different elements are laid out is a lot more intuitive. For those of you who haven’t already done so should upgrade.
One bad thing that happened though as a result to the upgrade was the inability to use the K2 theme. K2 is what was handling the front end of this blog. Hopefully the people of K2 will update their theme to work with Wordpress 2.5. Fortunately by renaming the K2 theme folder to K2. allowed Wordpress to recognize that K2 wasn’t loading correctly and automatically revert the themes setting to it’s default theme.
Perhaps being unable to use K2 will force me to start working on my own custom wordpress theme. Something fun and exciting that will go along with the Facedown Photography website. Stay tuned!
While driving one day and trying to decide on my first “real” article to write about on this blog. I wondered why photographers would say to their subjects, “Say cheese!” when they wanted people to smile for a picture. As I pondered this question, I sat their driving in my car and repeating to myself over and over again the word, “Cheese”.
The word cheese is simple to say. It’s one syllable and because of the combination of letters used in the word. It forces your face to form a smile. Of course if you wanted to you could totally force out the word cheese without really smiling. The best results seem to occur when the “eese” portion of the word cheese is held. Just so the photographer has enough time to snap a photo or two.
There are also other words I’ve heard photographers use when taking photos. For example Koreans often use the word “Kimchi”.
Although a delicious dish to eat I don’t believe the “kimchi” is as good as the “cheese” in producing consistent smiles. Unlike the word cheese, kimchi consists of two syllables. When taking photos of people who use kimchi as opposed to cheese. The photographer has to be sure to have their timing right. If the photographer snaps too early when the subject is saying “kim” then the end result is a picture with a closed mouth. On the other hand if the subject doesn’t hold the “chi” portion of the word long enough you’d get a very weird half open smile.
What are some other variations of the “cheese” you’ve heard photographers use?
