Michele's 1st Purse!

This is a follow up post to a sewing lesson with Michele's Grandma Barros on creating a purse from scratch. Saturday was Michele's official day to knock one of these purses out herself. I am extremely proud of Michele for following through with her goal and busting out a purse all by herself and with just a little help from Grandma. Michele was extremely focused on the task at hand and Grandma got a kick out of from time to time.
In my honest opinion, this is how special memories are created. Memories are created from doing the most simplistic things with loved ones. While you are in the moment you may not even realize how special the moment really is until days or even years have gone by.
A simple hug or a sewing lesson can go a long way...

Love you Michele & Grandma Barros

Cresa Partners Head Shots - San Diego Office

Just finished doing some headshots for CresaPartners in their San Diego office. Cresa has been a consistent client of Joe Hamilton Photography ever since I went full time and I would to sincerely thank them for that. Extra special thanks to Natalie & Russ from Cresa Partners for all their help and support the past few years.

For those who are not familiar with CresaPartners they are a international corporate real estate advisory firm that exclusively represents tenants and specializes in the delivery of fully integrated real estate services, including: Transaction Management, Project Management, Relocation Planning and Management, Strategic Planning, Workforce & Location Planning, Subleases and Dispositions, Lease Administration, Capital Markets, and Facilities Management. With more than 50 North American offices, CresaPartners is the largest pure tenant representation firm in the U.S. and Canada. Through a partnership with BNP Paribas, CresaPartners is a member of one of the leading real estate organizations in the world, covering 35 countries.

Kirstin & Todd's Wedding Slide Show

Assembled a little slide show for Kirstin & Todd of their wedding images to two songs. Trying to pick 40-50 images out of 1,000+ and try and tell a story is a hard task. Of course I always end up picking way to many images and I always want to incorporate them all. My process usually starts off with just one song, but, if I really can't delete an image from the slide show I just add another song.
The second song I wanted to add as many images as could to the movement of the song to tell an overall story of the entire day.
All my slide shows are put together using ProShow Gold which is a very user friendly slide show software.

Enjoy!

Kirstin & Todd's Wedding 7.31.2010 - Orfila Winery from Joe Hamilton on Vimeo.

Todd & Kirstin's Wedding 7.31.2010

Just finished up Todd & Kirstin's wedding photos & slide show and I would like to share a few images of their special day. Todd & Kirstin got married at the Orfila Winery in Escondido, CA which was an awesome location & venue. The weather was absolutely beautiful and the whole day just turned out perfect.
Special thanks to Kirstin & Todd for deciding to book me for their engagement & wedding photography.
A soon as their slideshow is finished uploading I will put up a link.

BlueBloodRed CD Cover - "Fill the Void"

Just finished assembling a C.D. cover for a local band called BlueBloodRed. My older brother Jeff is in the band and plays bass guitar and they are releasing a C.D. in the near future. Jeff stopped by today to go over the final layout, font and a few other details. I'm extremely proud of my brother Jeff for moving forward with his music and passion. Jeff has released a handful of C.D.'s in the past, but, I have a feeling this work of art is going to have a lot more meaning behind it.
Not just saying this because he is my brother, but, I think Jeff is musical genius and he will eventually do something big with music. He has truly inspired me over the years and has helped me tremendously to pursue my goal of playing guitar.
As soon as the C.D. is released I will post a link to where it can be purchased or heard and do a little write up about the entire band.

http://www.myspace.com/bluebloodred
Check out, "The Rain Song" on their myspace page. 5th song down. Just me, but, I dig the simplicity in the guitars.

Birthday Cake & Actions

Celebrated my sister-in-law Damaris's birthday the other day and I think her baby daughter Dina had a splendid time as well. After a great dinner we had some chocolate trifle cake which was unbelievably good. Pretty sure I could have finished off the whole cake myself...
Before dinner Michele and I tried to keep up with baby Dina as she crawled from room to room as I tried to snap a few images. Below are a few images from the birthday party.

Decided to mess around with a few different actions on these images. Finally decided on using "Old School Fast ", by Totally Rad Actions. Actions are used by photographers to put an effect on a single image or perform a repetitive task on multiple files. For those who have no clue what actions are, follow this link to give yourself a better understanding, Peachpit Articles.
Totally Rad actions and a few other companies have given me the tools to speed up my work flow and put artistic effects on my images when needed.

Stock Photography Update

I've been busy the past few weeks working on my Stock photography portfolio which has been fun. It has been truly interesting doing all the research on what stock sites look for in your work and what they actually accept. As of today I have been accepted to 9 different stock agencies and hands downs the only one that provides me results is Shutterstock.
136 of my images have been sold through Shutterstock and below are a few of my top downloads.
This has been mentioned before that this is not going to get me rich overnight, but, there is a lot of potential in this and I learn quite a bit along the way. If you are constantly shooting you are constantly learning, (maybe just my philosophy..). I've made a goal to try and get 25 images approved per week and slowly build up my portfolio.
We will give the other sites another few weeks to see if we get any results before I give you another update. I will follow up with a detailed critique of their site and pros & cons of each site I have used.

Photographers interested in submitting images to Shutterstock please use my referral link.
http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=628330