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Given that they're supposed to be making a movie out of this series, I was considering checking out the "Fifty Shades of Grey" series.  Well… no more.  I think there are more stories out there that I'll enjoy.

But this review is truly entertaining!

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The only review you will ever need to read. Hilarious. Also, GIFs.

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a review of Fifty Shades of Grey
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What in the hell just happened? Did I really read that? Oh, my god, I did. I did read that.

Meet Anastasia Steele:

Ana is just a giant mess of a human being. She's insecure to the point of …

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At G+ photography get-togethers, models dream of Saitama and mannequins (and not necessarily in that order).

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My first animated gif creation. I'd say it was time well spent, don't you?

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I'm going through and editing some photos that I promised to get done for someone a while ago and while taking a break, was browsing through some older pictures from earlier this year while at Shirakawago.

Maybe I'm looking through my winter photos because it's so ridiculously hot and humid right now….

Don't think I'm going to be on G+ much this weekend (though I will be meeting up with fellow G+ folk!), hope ya'll have a good Friday night and great weekend!

In album Shirakawa-GO! (Feb. 2012) (1 photo)

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Finally going through my tremendous backlog of photos – these were taken almost 2 months ago at +Tim Buerger 's workshop.  

It was great fun – and super messy!  As you can probably imagine, timing is (one of) the toughest things with these kinds of shots.  Catching the "perfect moment" is very tricky.  Even when you start getting the timing right, you can't exactly control how the "model" (cherry) or water drop will fall.  So you shoot, and you shoot – and you shoot some more.

All in all though, this was not just a practice in getting the lighting and the timing right, but also an exploration of creativity, figuring out what you can do to get the effects and lighting you want.  That's something I definitely need to work on personally so this workshop was a good step in the right direction. 🙂

In album Lighting (4 photos)

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I had the opportunity to fly to Hokkaido a couple of weeks back with +adithya anand , +Agustin Rafael Reyes , and +Jason Arney .  We were there for just the weekend + 1 day, and made the most of our trip, taking hundreds of pictures of the summer flowers.  

Hokkaido is really a lovely place – I've been there in summer and autumn so far, and hope to one day visit in winter and spring as well.

I got tons of awesome photos that I haven't even had a chance to go through.  This was just a SOOC shot I pulled out to send to my family so that they could see where I'd been.  

I'll go through my Hokkaido shots over the coming weeks (still have the G+ anniversary photowalk pictures to go through first!), but just wanted to share this 🙂

#hokkaido  
#japan  

In album Hokkaido (1 photo)

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These are the final shots from the model workshop I participated in a couple of weeks back.  The left-hand image is my favorite, primarily because it was somewhat accidental.

At the beginning of the workshop we paired off and were told to scout out locations where we'd later shoot the models.  As sir Holian and I were wrapping up and heading back to the meetup point, we saw this little alley/pathway between the buildings.  I went in, more from curiosity to see what was on the other side than anything else, but I also turned around and grabbed a quick shot of +andrew holian out in the street.  

I ended up loving the (accidental) result, where the background/street was blown out, creating an somewhat ethereal mood that was countered by the random graffiti.  I knew right away that I'd want to shoot our model here, and this was the final result.  T'was unexpectedly cool.  🙂

In album Model shoots (2 photos)

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P.S. Thanks +andrew holian for the heads-up!

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+Sara Lando 's series on the inner game of photographing people (Part 1 is today) is one of the coolest things that has ever run on Strobist:

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2012/08/on-photographing-people-pt-1.html

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Strobist: On Photographing People: Pt. 1
The world's most popular free resource for learning how to use off-camera flash.

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I never heard of the song "Call me Maybe" until this weekend when I stumbled upon the Batman parody version (Do not watch it unless you've already seen the movie as it could be considered spoiler-ish)

Then I saw the Olympic team version (which was pretty cute), then a friend sent me the Abercrombie and Fitch version (O.o), and now today THIS shows up in my G+ stream… 

I've never tried Chatroulette, but I have to say this was pretty funny 😀

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Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen (Chatroulette Version)

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Just adding a couple more of Aina from the model workshop – these were a couple of the more goofy/fun shots 🙂

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