David Martschinske Photography

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There is just not enough time in the day it seems. I finally got some sort of work accomplished when it comes to website stuff. It has taken forever to get the slideshowpro content to load properly in my page. Now that I have at least some sort of gallery up (http://www.davidmartschinske.com/new/portraits/home.html) I need to determine which images i actually like, and which ones i need to get rid of. Also, my friend, Tyler Sticka is currently designing a logo for David Martschinske Photography… that sounds so official. Anyway, check out his stuff (http://www.tylersticka.com/) He has done some amazing work and his philosophy lines up with mine. he conveys complicated ideas with simplicity. I originally thought that I could do the logo by myself (something I’m not totally opposed to) but after casually looking through his portfolio I was convinced that this was his talent and I needed to get a hold of that. I kind of gasped when I found out how pricey good work costs but I’m confident that it will be worth every penny!

Also, speaking of talents, have I mention that I will be teaming up with Jordan Thompson of Valeo Visual as a creative arts partner? Him and I will be bouncing work off of one another. He is a great guy to work with, I speak from experience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNFJbMfmGxk That is ME on the unicycle. I bet you didnt know that I learned how to ride the SBU (Self Balancing Unicycle) by Focus Designs.

On the topic of good friends and their businesses, Daniel Wood owns Focus Designs (http://www.focusdesigns.com) and his SBU is an amazing product. I hope to see him grow with Focus Desings. I really believe that he has the perfect intersection of his creative genius, the marketplace, and his resources to go far with his business.

And lucky for me, I get to work with all of these amazing people at a place called US Digital (http://www.usdigital.com). This is the best career choice I could have made. I love where I work and I am good at what I do.

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Well most photographers put their phone number on their website and expect to get calls from people interested in purchasing some photography services… I got a call from what I think was a lady named “Irena Petrova,” a mail-order-bride that needed some help getting back to Russia. At first I thought the call was just a prank phone call but after i listened to it a few times and showed it to my friends they said that it sounded like “Irena” really needed some help and was not a prank phone call. I’m a pretty gullible person so now I don’t know what to believe. Basically, this was a pretty well thought-out prank phone call by some friends of mine but just in case… Irena, you said you saw my website. If you are reading this call me again and lets get you back to Russia!

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Wow,  After I graduated my life got very busy.  I’m working for US Digital, doing worship leading for youth group… which is tons of fun, and GETTING A NEW CAMERA!!!   I am so excited to announce my new camera, Colbie II!  Ok, you probably think it may be wierd to name your cameras but after all, I’m a weird guy.  And just in case you were wondering the name “Colbie” began the same time my affinity towards Colbie Caillat began.  Anyways, I got a Canon 50D and I love it.  Can you tell?  I came from my Nikon D200 and it was a little painful at first getting all of the settings down… but after that things started getting cool.  I like the ability to take pix in low light easily.  This is the main perk with the advent of the Digic 4 chip that canon uses on the 50D as well as my main camera that is still on backorder, the 5D mark II.  The main reason for switching to Canon was the sensors that Canon actually makes, versus Nikon who has to outsource their sensors.  poo poo.  I think that is a large reason why Canon is ahead of the curve when it comes to accurate color representation and noise reduction.  Well, lets not keep the blog too long, let me show you the cool pictures that I’ve been taking.

So it’s been 5 years of papers, projects, and stress… I’m finally done! I graduate in a few days on Saturday, June 14 2008! woot woot! now life gets easy right? haha, who am I even trying to kid. Life is already so busy with doing youth ministry, working at Artisan, school, photography when I get a chance - not to mention my social life (My girlfriend, movies, my new dog Tucker, the Inn… the list goes on). I kind of wanted to move somewhere completely in the middle of nowhere or at least where I don’t know anybody. I kind of just want to start a new life and not have to deal with all of my mistakes/commitments. I have a problem of overbooking myself socially. I most definitely have learned a lot from college in more than just engineering.

Let me show you a bit of what I’m working on currently:

The Sirks Wedding:
Dane and Barbara are married! I was so excited when they asked me to be their photographer and I think the pictures turned out great. I took over 3500 images (also shooting was my brother, Jason Martschinske) and now feel that it’s best to send online albums to my client before ANY editing even gets done. It feels like a big risk for me because editing can cover up some mistakes… and let’s face it… editing is required for a number of reasons. Sharpening (a must do), local and global tonal shifts, contrast, popping the eyes (not literally haha), vingetting, acne/blemish removal, skin smoothing, you name it, they help ANY image out in my opinion. Enough jibba jabba, here are some that I’ve chosen to edit so far.

THIS IS ME:
This is just what I do with my friends… I was in Allison’s car and totally paparazzi’d Rachel and Jon. This is how their relationship goes… Rachel controls. haha.

This is me playing guitar hero, I’m so good, NOT. I’ve found that I dont have any non-blury pictures of me taken with my camera, people have a hard time when I tell them, “let me adjust the ISO before you take that or else it will be blurry.”

Hands On Films:
Fred and Aaron of Hands on Films asked me to take some pictures for their website/promotional material. They were the perfect clients because they basically said, “do what you want to do, we just need pictures.” That gave both of us an atmosphere to explore each of our creative minds in order to get a cool shot. Here are a few that I’ve edited so far:

Janelle Herrick:
Janelle asked to get some senior pictures so that she can give them to her family. We went out and had some fun in a few fields - That’s always fun for me!!

work it girl!

Dinking around:
This is my sister, Jessica, and her friend Meghan Dickinson doing some karate at night!

Kayla and Chris Fry Wedding:
Kayla and Chris Fry are married! Kayla’s cousin, Dave Ainley of Dave Ainley Photography was there shooting as well. He is really good and you should check out his work. Anyways here are a few of my favorites, you can see a trend of color masking that is sort of my thing that I do.

Mikaela Sulak Confirmation:
Mikaela Sulak, the girl who sold me my dog, Tucker so she could pay for a mission trip, was recently confirmed at Bellingham Covenant Church. Here is the proof baby!

My Puppy, Tucker:
If I did’t have a girlfriend, I would use Tucker to pick up chicks because EVERY person stops to pet him - total babe magnet!

The first day I took Tucker away from his brothers and sisters.

Now he’s all grown up, at least to 9 weeks.

This concludes this blog of “oops i need to actually post in my blog”

Today was a milestone for myself. I had my first taste at fashion photography with Cory Arashiro. She’s a clothing designer from Hawaii who moved to Portland, OR to go to school. I know her sister Cody who recommended myself to her. (thanks cody!) Anyways this shoot was fun… incredibly!

Working with Cory and Cody was easy because I had a great assistant, Jaycee. I explained to Jaycee exactly what I wanted in terms of lighting and with that said the pictures turned out great, I’ll let you see for yourself at the bottom of this post. We ventured to three different locations for this shoot and she had on about 5 different dresses. When she pulled them out to show me before the shoot what they looked like I said in my mind, “where is the rest of it.” they were short! When she actually put them on they didnt seem quite as bad as I imagined but DANG GIRL, showin some leg! haha!

Our first stop was an abandoned blue bus, I can’t wait to process those images because the bus contrasted amazingly with her dress. Afterwards we walked down to Squalicum Beach in order to grab a few shots - those turned out okay. The real fun began once we got into the ally. My favorite type of shot is one with excellent juxtaposition. Blending a beautiful girl in with a dingy ally turned out amazingly! I am learning more and more how to get successful shots at peak efficiency! Bellingham has a lot of great locations to shoot at and it will take a while until I find some more locations in Vancouver.

So apparently when people go to college they need to find a job afterwards… That is what I have been doing. Ever since I interned at US Digital it was sort of a no - brainer that I wanted to return and work as an engineer there. The company is amazing… I’m talking free granola and lemon slices in your water nice. After interviewing at Artisan Industries, Elite Plastics, Fluke Electronics, R&D Plastics, as well as US Digital I thought my head was going to explode if I heard another utterance of health care plans. Long story short what it came down to was among many other things the quality of work that US Digital would provide me with- giving me room to expand and spread my wings, the benefits (outstanding), and the ability to only 4 days a week! This would give me plenty of time to work on photography, a serious passion of mine - obviously! I cannot wait to decorate my office space with my photography and textbooks upon textbooks.As far as photography goes I did some graduation pictures at boardwalk with my friend Tanya Hedine and her roommate Laura Mckenney. Here are some of Tanya’s that I have gone through so far:

I was blown away by how much her eyes popped out. Look at those puppies! It is sessions like these that remind me why I love photography so much.

Speaking on that note, what I do NOT LOVE about photography is the price of gear! I have spent so much money on camera stuff, and though it is worth every penny I am glad that I will actually have a real job to supplement new purchases. I really need to get a set of white lightnings, a few pocket wizards, a giant softbox, grids, a light meter, backgrounds, and lightstands… wow this is expensive!

In other news… The Real You has requested me through my friend, Rachel Nelson to do some band promos. It’s been a while since I’ve worked with a band and I hope this works out. I checked them out and they sound tight. I hope they give me some tickets on the side, I should just tell them to give me a set of tix to their show on the 16th in Seattle so I can take live photos of them. (ok, just sent a myspace message, we’ll see).

Also, my skillz have been growing a lot lately and my wedding gallery really undersells me because that work is so old! I’m taking down those pictures because I think it does more damage to put up pictures that don’t show my capacity.

Tulip Fields - Mt. Vernon, Washington:

I will probably be making some posters of a few of these shots as well as some others to take to the saturday market / art gallery for a showing.

I cannot wait until next month when I get to shoot Barbara and Dane’s wedding!  The wedding will be in Camas, WA at the Camas Community Center.

Here is why I’m excited:  The last two weddings that I shot were just purely to dab my feet in the water.  Now my feet are wet, and I am actually prepared this time with equipment.  Before I had only a kit lens for my camera, after dropping a LOT of money on lenses I’m ready to make some CLUTCH pictures!

Another reason that I am excited is because my wedding portfolio will finally be updated to reflect the level that I am at.  I feel like when people look at my wedding section they don’t see a clear picture of what I can offer.  I’m a budding professional photographer and I am still honing in on my skills.

Did a few senior portraits in the last few days for Levi Johnson and Reid McEvoy, Here are some of my favs.

Levi:

Reid:

Senior Pictures went well.

well, the title basically explains what happend today. I took the new lens out for a test shoot with my girlfriend and my roommates car got annihilated. First of all the “fake senior pictures” went well. I wanted to try out some new poses with my girlfriend, Allison Budzier as the model. I learned about a new sharpening tool and well, this lens is sharp anyways so hopefully you can see a definite increase in quality. Below are some Before and After Edits, A few are a bit overdone on the eyes on second glance, but hey… that’s what practice is for right?

Allison Senior Picture Pose 1

Allison Senior Picture Pose 2

Allison Senior Picture Pose 3

Allison Senior Picture Pose 4

So, I went a little overboard with editing, I know! But I had some fun. Let me know if you think it’s too much or if its classy, I would really value your opinion. whoever “you” are.

Also, my roommate, Boon Chaya got his car smashed into around 10:30 at night. Allison and I were out after our photoshoot grabbing some Dairy Queen and then driving down Chuckanut Drive to view the bay. When we came back, my roommate Joel was in the middle of the road checking out this car that had smashed into Boon’s nice Honda. The guy was totally drunk and was actually our neighbor… classy.

So as you can see, Boon was upset! Don’t worry though, I sang him a song after this happened.