"A Night Out" with some friends....

---UPDATE uploaded video finally -----(Thanks Efrain for helping me shoot this.)



Back on June 28th, I went out and met a group of fun amazing people. It was the 2nd monthly free Illuminate Workshops Night Photo shoot. We all met around 8:30pm at the Denver Skatepark. When I showed up it looked like Britany Spears was there. Photographers, tripods, and flashes going off, made the scene look and feel like the paparazzi were there. Bikers, Skaters and Rollerblades all stopped me and asked "what's going on?". After a brief explanation and a plug for the Efrain's school, it was back to shooting a meeting new people. Sheba from Picture Your World Photography was there and we had a good couple laughs.



We then traveled around did some overpass shots. I was frightened I was going to drop my camera gear off the bridge and prematurely end my photography career. Instead I dropped the battery cover to my shutter remote. After some panic and self discussion like "at least it wasn't the camera" I continued shooting until the big guy stopped by to check on me. Efrain (Illuminate Workshops head honcho)is a great man, and watched my camera and gear while I ran off the bridge, through the trees, past the sleeping bum and almost into traffic to find the battery cover. All the while Efrain standing overhead shining his flashlight around for me.



Once my wild rampage was over and everyone was gathered we continued on into the night shooting Denver's Millennium Bridge and all along the waterfront. It's absolutely amazing how time flies by when your making 30 sec to a 1 minute exposures.



If hanging out with a bunch of fun loving photographers in the dark, or you want some new friends, maybe a night out on the town, well sign up for Illuminate Workshops newsletter to get the 411 on the next event. I'll be posting the shots I took as soon as I get them out of photoshop.

RTD Lightrail

Took the Lightrail to work yesterday morning. The train I was on, the G-line, was packed full at 7:20am. Standing there trying to get my mp3 player to work I started thinking about stock photography of all those business people going to work. This is a gold mine if you could get everyone to sign the model release form.

Out on the platforms you could shoot a million different pics of trains, cars, pedestrian. The guy waiting with his bike. The girl on the phone. etc... Then inside the man in the Oakley sunglasses reading the Business Journal, me with my Ipod on, everyone crammed in the aisle. No kidding its a gold mine.

But still the question remains how to get all them to sign? Would a General Premise Release work? It works in video production would it work for stock photography?

Now off topic of photography. Why is it so expensive to ride Lightrail? It cost me $1.75 one way, That could buy almost 1/2 a gallon of gas! Is it really cost effective to take public transportation? I'm going to have to check the mileage to and from work and do some number crunching on this.

The End of freeman-media... The begining of freemanfotos.com

OK, so I haven't been doing this for a while why the change? After taking the Illuminate Workshops Profit and Passion class, I started thinking about my company and branding and all that stuff the corporate world is all about.

One thing I've heard in the past that's stuck with me is "fail faster!". I take it as if it's not working get rid of it or make it better but don't hold onto it. So since I didn't want to be doing the "media" thing and want my business to focus on the photography... I dropped freeman-media and started freemanfotos.com.

Now I know every ones asking whats with the (f)? Why not spell it correctly? Well in this big blue world with the billions of people on it and only one web there's a limited number of names. Do you know how many Jonathan Freemans there are out there? Apparently most of them are into photography too. Which reminds me of that other saying "You unique.... Just like everyone else".

So www.freemanfotos.com it was and I've set up my gallery at www.freeman-fotos.com.

I'm working on getting all the old links to forward onto the new sites but the rest is up to the people in charge of the web servers.

So please be patient and if you need drop me and email.