Portfolio, 2

i made one of these videos last year... and i'm exceedingly pleased to see my work progress.

enjoy.

eclipse

this was a last second shoot. i had no plan on doing this.. and it suddenly hit me to try it. and tried it i did.

i think it was a success, to be honest.

new website.. again.

i got many complaints about my last website,  particularly that the pages took too long to load, and that the top and bottom portions were being cut off.

so, i just went back to simple. again.

third website design of the year. and honestly, i'll probably change it again.

i'm thinking about leaving over to livebooks, with their $39 a month websites. if i can get my website onto the first page of Google through them, it would totally be worth it.


in the mean while, enjoy my new site.

www.davidteran.com 

the civil wars

i was recently turned onto this band, The Civil Wars, an amazing duet composed of Joy Williams and John Paul White.

you will love this song, i promise.

Poison & Wine is a musical snapshop about the dicotomy of love - that while it can be the thing that destory syou, it can also be the very same thing that beckons and builds you. JP and I are both married, have been for several years now - and we got to talking one day about what a tug and pull our individual relationships can be. The longer you know someone - and the longer you allow someone to know you - the more the light and shadows inside each person become more vivid. This song was our attempt at beinga s brutally honest about the dangerous and beautiful process of knowing and being known. -Joy Williams, The Civil Wars

Meg

i had the opportunity to photograph an accomplished ballerina this week, something i have yet to shoot. i was very excited, and i'm pleased with this image i got.


i am planning another ballerina shoot soon...i just love the gracefulness of these women.

click on image to view large.

http://davidteran.com/ 

into the ocean

my latest composite...errr, picture.

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Lauren

true to my photography style, i shot another sports portrait this weekend - yesterday, actually.

Lauren was an amazing swimmer to work with, and i really hope i can work with her again soon.

tennis

last Tuesday i had a photoshoot with my lovely friend, Natalia. entire shoot was very productive, and i came away with at least SIX great shots.

i am planning to use four of them in my physical portfolio that i am printing very soon...hopefully around April.

so i very much would like to post the entirety of this shoot online, on my website, and on flickr for the world to see... but i promised i wouldn't post them.......at least not till the end of May. i only have permission to use them in my book.

for now, i will honor my promise, and just show one picture.

http://davidteran.com/ 

100 ideas

i used to want to go to photography school. i still do, sort of. i am stuck on the idea of going now, two years from now, or after i have found a wife. i can see the benefits in an online friend - she has progressed so much in six months that she has attended, that alone has almost made me want to go.

it's expensive, though. $100K+ expensive, for just three years. not including room and board. but she swears it's completely worth it. said it would open up my style. and i quote: "when i see your images, i see the same stylization in each one. visually it gets dull to me, lots of super dark shots with sporadic lighting. i just tend to think it's over done these days."

that hit me like a ton of bricks. i knew that i was stuck in this rut...but i don't know how to get out, i want to change this style, this "dark style" that i have. i'm tired of it. i have a shoot thursday (hopefully..! the first since my accident...) and i am already planning on lighting it the same way.

this is completely frustrating.

ughhh.

anyways, in hopes to break this rut, i am going to do 100 different ideas.

randomly. we'll see how this goes. 

my ideas, via keri smith. 

shutter island

was phenomenally brilliant. 

that's all. 

switchfoot acoustic set

there was a sweet switchfoot acoustic set at best buy today. for as short as it was, i am actually glad that i went. 

i got there at 10:50am, half expecting the place to be empty.. or maybe i was hoping for it to be empty.

alas, that was not the case. when noon rolled around, it looked like there was about 250-300 people there, easily. 

anyways, SF arrived at 12, and opened up with mess of me, played dare you to move, and then closed (i know, short set!) with hello hurricane. 

as short as it was, it was fun, and worth the wait. 

between dare you to move and hello hurricane, jon and the group answered a few questions from the crowd. 

one of them was the following: "what's your favorite song to play live?"

jon: "definitely vice verses...and it's a shame we don't have time to play it!"

i quickly shouted out: "play the first verse!"

surprisingly, jon tuned to drop D, looked at me, and started playing vice verses... and then asked "it goes something like this, right?" and that is how i got this picture.

after the show i waited about an hour and a half for switchfoot to sign almost everybody (or so it seemed!) anyways, right before they walked out the door, i snagged a few autographs, and this picture with one of my favorite lyricists of all time.. jon foreman. 

new website

so i know it's only been a little longer than a month since my last website revision.. but i think i'm gonna stick with this one for a good while. along with the new website, i made a new "logo" or design... 

i got tired of the serif font fast. 

i was going for very modern, and very simple, with absolutely no learning curve. as simple as i thought the last website was, people had trouble navigating the portfolio section. 

this shouldn't be a problem this time. also, this site is "SEO" (search engine optimization) friendly, which means HOPEFULLY i'll be showing up on the first page of google within a few weeks. 

here was my inspiration. obviously mine leaves a bit to be desired, but i honestly couldn't afford $1000 to make the site, and then another $17 a month just to host it. 

mine doesn't look exactly like it.. but i think i like mine better anyways. 

check out my website! 

gymnast

another shoot i did in houston, that i just to around to editing this week. 

obviously not a nike ad, but i thought it looked good enough to warrant it... obviously i'm biased, though. 

click on it to view it larger. 

needtobreathe

somebody posted a status update with some lyrics: "this is my desire, consume me like a fire, cause i just want something beautiful". 

normally i'd just ignore it, but i loved the lyrics so much i had to google it, and find out who sang it.

i actually liked the youtube clip i heard, and proceeded to purchase their latest album.

go get it. it's amazing. 

so i almost died this past Monday

yep. on monday, february 8 of 2010 i flipped off a bridge in my lancer. :/ 

and i walked out without a single scratch on my body. the only reason i am here is because of God's miraculous and loving hand of protection. and wearing my seat belt probably helped. 

anyways, here are a few pictures. 

my car landed parallel to the street, on top of that concrete slab near the graffiti. i can safely say i am truly blessed. 

i wasn't even driving fast...driving extra slow specifically because the roads were wet, and i still flipped off the bridge. i fishtailed, lost control, and flipped off the bridge. 

suffice it to say, it was a very scary moment. but God spared me, i can fully and confidently claim.