KG Photography

High Hopes

2009-08-09T15:38:00.008-06:00

So me and Mikey had a photoshoot the other night. It lasted into the wee hours of the morning. It was super fun. I'm calling it the High Hopes Photoshoot because way randomly while I was shooting Mike he remembers a song from A Goofy Movie and started laughing and he had to run grab his MacBook Pro and find this song and download it. It was super random and we kept listening to this song and laughing. Perhaps it was only funny because it was almost 4 in the morning.

These are the pictures we ended up with. Enjoy.

lazy

2009-07-30T18:24:00.000-06:00

i've been soooo lazy. i havent updated in like 2 months. sorry. i will change that soon hopefully.

summer begins

2009-06-01T22:29:00.010-06:00

i'm a winter kind of guy as most of you all know but summer is fun too. especially when it doesnt get so blasted disgustingly hot. cant wait to swim and go camping and have many late night adventures!

pictures of me = taken by bigginz

minus 2 self portraits

recent stuff

2009-05-24T00:28:00.026-06:00

so its been a bit since i've updated. i got lazy because it takes so long for my pictures to upload and it takes awhile to go through and decide which to upload. and the longer i wait to post a blog, the more pictures pile up. cuz i take a lot of pictures. so this one will have a lot of samples of my recent stuff. golfing. the lightning tree. family pictures. and miscellaneous pictures of people. which could be called models. cuz hey, if you're in a picture, arent you a model?

yes there are a few pictures of me cuz i was teaching jake how to use my camera. he now understands why i love taking pictures!

coming soon...

2009-05-15T19:55:00.001-06:00

many pictures coming soon, when i have time to watermark them and upload them all! golfing pictures and pictures of "the lightning tree." and probably some other stuff!

"digital design"

2009-05-09T00:29:00.005-06:00

i read somewhere this GIRL said that using photoshop isnt photography, its digital design. i completely agree. photography is taking pictures and gettin the shot right how you want it without tampering with it or cheating using photoshop. however, using photoshop is still fun and you can make stuff look pretty sweet. so i'll continue to use it and hopefully get better at it. anyhow, this is a picture i started editing two nights ago and i just finished it tonight. its complete with my new little "copyright" mark thing i made. haha. KGP!

photo credits go to mike larsen. i just photoshopped it.

next.

just for fun. a mugshot if you will. taken and photoshopped by me.

next

this is kim. see kim play with colorful bubbles.

"photo safari"

2009-05-04T20:51:00.009-06:00

so on saturday 5/2 i just drove around in my car and took a bunch of pictures. i got some good ones. not as many as i thought but oh well. there are also a few that i photoshopped that i'll post.

it felt so good just crusin around looking for cool things to take pictures of. and the whole time i was rockin to 3oh!3. i couldnt stop listening to them! good stuff.

this one is cropped and blown up a bit.

these are the photoshopped ones..

photoshoot?

2009-04-28T23:00:00.006-06:00

so me and mike are making a music video for the song "more soup" by moka only ft. mf doom. anyhow, we set up this "set," filmed a bunch of stuff and then were kinda done for the night and started taking pictures. it turned out to be pretty fun. haha. pictures of me were taken by mike and i took the ones of him. so this is a KG Bigginz photoshoot. hahaha.

p.s. none are photoshopped...

utah lake

2009-04-25T01:08:00.000-06:00

so, i wanted to go to utah lake and take some pictures. at the af harbor. sounded fun and mike had recently been there to film a little music video and he got some sick shots. so i wanted some cool photos. pretty sure i got there at the perfect time. and i stayed for about an hour probably. just watching the sunset and changing angles and snappin pik-chas. haha. it was super fun and i'm happy with the results! check it out. such a beautiful sunset. i.love.sunsets.

so i got a haircut

2009-04-25T00:38:00.000-06:00

yes a haircut. first one since last june. haha. not really great pictures or whatever but thought i'd post them for fun anyway!

before

work style pony tail haha

after...

Shoes

2009-04-21T20:11:00.000-06:00

i've never been a fan of crazy colored shoes. i've always looked for the plainest black shoe. for the most part. a few years ago i bought a pair of white shoes. this was something very foreign to me. i felt weird but i liked them. so i went for it. and they were comfy. i'll throw this out there right now, comfort is the most important quality in footwear to me. i'm picky. anyway, almost 2 years after the white shoes, i took a risk again and bought a pair of brown shoes. good buy. i love them. probably 6 months after the brown ones i found the most perfect shoe i've ever owned. and of course, its plain black. love them. recently, i was with a friend shopping for shoes. i was not intending to buy any. however, i saw a pair of bright blue shoes. i tried them on. they were pretty cool and pretty comfy but they didnt have my size. then i found a different shoe, same brand, different color. they were red. i thought it wouldnt hurt to be outgoing and try them on too. they didnt have my size in a red so i tried the black to see how they fit. they were awesome. then i tried on the red ones in the closest size available. i thought dang these are pretty kickin. they look good to me. i like them. i dunno tho... then my friend proceeds to tell me he thinks i can pull them off and i should buy them. so i think to myself, i love how they look and they are really comfy. so in response to my friend i say i should buy them just because i can pull them off. i'll just do it. so when i got home that night i found them online and ordered them. what a good decision! i love them!

and here they are...

this picture was a 13 second exposure, taken around midnight in my driveway. and yes i took it myself.

KG

American

2009-04-20T21:33:00.000-06:00

I am proud to be an American. I love flags.

My Blog is Born.

2009-04-19T21:59:00.000-06:00

so like all things which are created or born, my blog is no different. consider it birthed.

speaking of birth, there is a cool song called "birth" and these are two of my favorite lyrics from that song.....

"i just paced myself. not i as my whole self, just the half that i had. before greeting the rest, of my better half."

"i should have noticed the beauty, and not how it hurt"

some synonyms of the word birth that i like

"creation, genesis, origination, spawning"

i love creating the preservation of that perfect moment in time. a picture. one frame. the beauty of photography is in it's simplicity. the way one thing may stand out to your eyes and another thing might go unnoticed. the emphasis and detail that can be focused on in a given situation. or perhaps the overall view you get from a wide angle when trying to see as the eye sees. i could go on about creativity, angles, lighting, color, framing and other things to try to sound cool, but what it really comes down to is one thing... do i enjoy looking at this picture?

sometimes to get a photo, you put time into it. set up for that perfect shot, move around to find that angle that is just right, etc. but other times the perfect picture is captured without prior planning. something that is just caught in the moment.

a picture is always honest. it cannot lie. it may not reveal the whole truth, but it cant lie.

(unless it is tampered with)

"imperfection is beauty"

the beauty of photography is in it's simplicity

simply put

i LOVE photography

KG