Mind So Gone

   This is another post about pictures that I took over 7 years ago (on August 6, 2011) after we graduated from Full Sail in April 2011. The pictures are taken at Full Sail in the Lighting lab Soundstage because I knew it would be somewhere I could get in to fairly easily. "Hey, I graduated from here recently. Can I practice my photography skills by taking behind the scenes photos?" Sure! This soundstage was set up with several different rooms including a road outside of "apartments", the rooms inside the apartment were also constantly used. A bedroom, kitchen, and living room, all separated into different "apartments" so everyone could work in a different area without bumping into each other. It also had the outside of a movie theater, a kind of creepy alley way, and of course, the bar/ club which was used for this project. These pictures make me think that this project was a music video, but now I can't remember. In fact, I didn't even remember about these pictures at all until I found them on my Flickr page last week. Good thing I stamped my Wild Photography logo on them. :)

The Iris Surprise

   Almost 7 years ago (wow, feeling old!) I really got into photography after we got our Canon Rebel T2i when graduating from Full Sail at the beginning of April 2011, so I went back to the school on days I wasn't working and asked teachers if I could take behind the scenes photos of the students filming their projects. The most fun thing about this particular shoot was seeing that one of the actors was someone I knew! Chris de Padua played Kenneth in Blood Widow, the movie we had filmed that summer in June. This project he was working on was called The Iris Surprise, but now I don't remember what it was about ~ sorry. Chris is the guy in the brown plaid shirt. These pictures are from December 6, 2011 and for some reason I never posted them before, so here they are now:

   I don't remember if this was before or after we got the 50mm lens. Michael told me that the 50mm would be better for low lighting because the F-stop goes lower and opens up more (1.8) compared to the kit lens (3.5) allowing in more light. Maybe we still had the kit lens at this time, and if so, I definitely would have needed to crank up the ISO and make the shutter speed faster so my pictures wouldn't turn out blurry. However, judging by the depth of field I'm going to assume I was using the 50mm. 

Kanapaha Gardens

   Yesterday I drove up to Gainesville for pre-Thanksgiving, although we did not have a Thanksgiving meal, but I liked the family day. My mom and I made sweet potato soufflé (so I could take some of it home for today with Michael and Emma) then we went to Kanapaha Botanical Gardens so I could take more pictures since I've been in a big "Canon mood" lately. After that we went with my dad and brother to David's BBQ for dinner before I drove home.
   Here are my favorite pictures of the ones I took, and we only saw 1/3 of the gardens!