Huge post warning

Ok, so I was lazy, and I still am on this break. However I have found the time to read the book"The Hot Shoe Diaries" by Joe McNally . It is a really in depth and great look at using speedlites to do almost any sort of situation from one light up to I believe 47 in one photograph. Really really great walk throughs on why and how light is falling and mixing. He is fun to read and keeps everything pretty easy to understand. I'd HIGHLY suggest you guys pick it up, and if you use Nikon I'd say it's a necessity as he explains the Nikon i-TTL/CLS system heavily along the way. Also I would say as we have before, check out strobist.com It is a great site by a photojournalist/freelance photographer from Maryland. It is basically the web version of that book, having a lot of walk throughs and what he calls bootcamp, which are basically a series of exercises to get more comfortable with your flash and the ideas behind lighting.

I also want to throw out a thought I had over break. I have a terrible habit of spending money, and in turn have probably bought and/or heavily shopped for every piece of photographic equipment over the past 5 years. If you guys want any sort of advice before buying anything photographic feel free to ask me. especially when it comes to Nikon lenses or lighting equipment or of course cameras. I'd assume you guys won't have this issue but you never know.

I haven't been photographing much, which is terrible but whatever, I'm vegging out and wishing school would start already. Here's some prize winning photographs I have made though...

I've been working a lot with interval timers on my camera (set the camera to take a picture every xx seconds). From a set of eating lunch.

I did Playgirl on break