Jacob Zellmer

Today was my first day at orientation with Wells' Blue Bunny.  So far I am enjoying it.  Seems like the type of place that would care about it's employees.  Tomorrow I am have more orientation, then on Wednesday I have on the- job-training.  So should be interesting.

I just updated Photo a Day. So make sure you take a look at it. 

After setting up my sisters iGoogle, and adding NPR on it.  She came across this website about a bunch of photographers taking an image at 7:15pm everyday for a year.  The project has now come to a close as of 12-31-08.

The website is www.sametime715.com.  So give it a look over.  Maybe something you and your friends would like to do.

Jake

I will be heading back down to Omaha tomorrow to get the last of my stuff and give the place a good cleaning.  I have not really dug into any of my stuff due there being a ton of people around these past few days.    So I think that it will be nice not to have so many bodies around.

My Christmas was great!  I love being able to spend time with family!  One of my gifts from my parents was some lighting gear!  I am going to have to get a softbox and some grids for em.  But so far I really enjoy them.    

Well I guess I better get going now.
Jake

I have decided that I shall move up to Sioux City.  I am going to a job fair tomorrow morning.  So we will see what comes of that.  

After living by ones self for so long, you start to get into a habbit of doing things.  Like getting out of the shower and not worrying about having clothes on.  About not eating at the table.  Like watching whatever tv show I want whenever I want.  I have grown used to silence.  To calmness.  Of doing my own thing and not having people ask "what are you doing?" or "where are you going?"  I grow weary of those types of questions.  

So i had to get away from O-town.  I was not doing anything down there, and the whole being alone for that long has not been very healthy for me.  For instance.  Last night I did not go to bed till 5:00 am.  I was up watching tv, movies and drinking some dp n jack.  So I decided that i would come up to Sioux City and be with family.  I figured I can wait for the phone just as up here as I could down there.    So I left after I shot my brother and his family photos.  To be honest, I was not really happy with any of the shots I got.  But I guess that is sort of the way it is with any Photographer.  I think the main reason I was not really pleased with the images was that my lighting gear was doing the this really annoying thing where puts these noise lines throughout the image.  I have been seeking advise on why this is happening to my images, but so far to no avail.   I have some theories about it.  One being the fact that I am using rechargeable batteries.  Rechargeable batteries are 1.2v as where a normal alkaline or lithium battery is 1.5 volt.  Now I would think that the capacitor would get charged enough to put out full power.  But I am not sure.  At any rate.  I told my Mum that a lighting kit would be a cool idea.

So I guess that it is getting late.  And I actually want to get out of bed in the morning and do stuff.

My old classmates and I belong to a blog where every Friday we upload a few of our most resent images.  So here are this Fridays images.  

I found myself up in Sioux City this past weekend. Now this was not an unplanned visit. Nor was it without a purpose.

I went up there to take my sisters family photos. I must say that it was very enjoyable to be shooting again. 

These next two photos are of Samuel Gerald Cherkas (his first month photos)

This next photo is of my sister Sara. She is planning on following our parents and going to the missions field. She hopes to be in India at the beginning of February. So she wanted me to take her prayer letter photo.

These shots were taken with a 580ex and 430ex flash units, with 32in umbrellas using ebay wireless triggers. (they are cheap as hell... but do the job.)