Thursday, April 28, 2011

Bi-Pedal Locomotion


Bi-Pedal Locomotion, originally uploaded by greggarciaphoto.
This is an iPhone capture as I was riding to the park. I kinda like the simple graphic nature of the shot. The post processing was done with the iPhone app Best Camera

Blogging.  What a weird creature.  It's like a diary that you know everyone can read but you have no idea if anyone is reading it.  The only guage that you have is by the comments and email that you might receive regarding your blog.
So originally, this was just going to be a photo blog.  Then it morphed into a behind the scenes look.  Then it turned more personal.  Then I started getting feedback from other photographers that like the tech and set ups involved in taking the shots.  Well, just like my bike pictured above, the squeeky wheel will get more oil.  The funny thing about tech is, it's like riding a bike or driving a car with a manual transmission.  It's been so long since I learned how to drive it's almost foreign when you try to break it down and explain the process to someone who has never done it before.   I have found it to be a great exercise for me and I plan on incorporating it at least once a week.

Regarding all the other subjects and content?  They are all part of my daily life behind the scenes, if you will.  So, I will most likely continue to blog about them as well.  The adventure, circumstance tech...   etc...  I thought about starting additional blogs that are specific to those subjects but that seems a bit complicated so for now, it's all gonna stay here. Was it Popeye that said, I yam what I yam...", so I will share it here.  I will try to be diligent about tags so any of the subjects can be searchable and I'm even thinking about an entry schedule.  Maybe I will isolate tech to Wednesdays and give my entries a little structure. If I decide to ink that idea, I will let you know.  For now, I'm gonna bust out the oil.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Punk Rock Picnic





3rd Annual Punk Rock Picnic shot by Orange County Photographer Greg Garcia
These images are from the 3rd Annual Punk Rock Picnic held this year Hidden Valley Irvine at Verizon. I had originally planned to see the Bastard Winos at this show but due to a line up conflict, they were unable to attend. After reading that Duane Peters and the Exploding Fuck Dolls as well as the Dickies were part of the days entertainment I decided to attend anyway. In my formal life as an recording engineer, I had recorded the EF Dolls for some their early cuts on Monster Records and releases on Disaster Records. So, I thought it would be cool to catch up with some old friends I hadn't seen in a while and the Dickies... I still have their vinyl records in my collection and I used to listen to them in High School, so I was looking forward to their set as well.

No fancy tech here. Today I brought the little gun, my Canon G9 and of course, shot in existing light. I obviously had a little fun in post kicking up contrast in PhotoShop. Otherwise, these are pretty straight forward captures. I chose the Canon G9 as my point and shoot because it has just about all the manual control ability of a DSLR minus the lens options and it captures at 12.1 megapixels. Not bad for a little guy. I can manually adjust on the fly with live preview or I can always view the histogram for a more accurate read of my scene. I will post more images from this camera in the near future and I'm sure you'll be surprised of the quality.


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