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Kauai, Hawaii on Poipu Beach
2007-06-04 09:12:00
Walking along Poipu Beach in Kauai, Hawaii and I see the moon hidden behind the clouds. I found a rock and posted my Nikon D200 on it trying to keep it level and hold it still. I folded the neck strap under the lens to even it out and set an exposure of about 15 seconds for this image. I wish I had a tripod with me to bring my ISO/ASA down on the camera to remove some of the digital noise but I had to do what I could with what I had. I snapped a few shots of and posted this photo after a few tweaks in photoshop. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Hawaiian Cliff Divers #2
2007-06-03 10:26:00
Part 2 of 2. After photographing them off from a distance, I got closer to them and shot from above. This is one of the photos that I have from a set of two teenagers jumping off this cliff on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. I really like how this kid looks with his pose and the way that the ocean seems so far down from where he is. I wish that I had this photo wider but I was already at 17mm on my Nikon. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Hawaiian Cliff Divers #1
2007-06-03 10:22:00
Found these teenagers jumping off this cliff on the island of Oahu in Hawaii while on vacation. They asked me for money to jump off the cliff but I told them I would send them a photo of the kids in action instead and them agreed. As soon as I checked my email after the shoot I had in my inbox an email from one of the kids named Josh. I promptly emailed a photo to them for letting me photograph them while they jumped off the cliff. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Courtney - The Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri
2007-05-29 13:26:00
This photo was on the The Plaza in Kansas City , Missouri . I was flipping through some shots from the spring last year and found this shot that I have not posted anywhere before. My favorite part of this photograph is the inverted background. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Daddry Shield - Band photo shoot
2007-05-28 12:34:00
I had the opportunity to work with a local band Daddry Shield a couple of weeks ago in the studio. They were looking for a photo shoot to promote the band through print and websites. I tweaked this photo a lot in Photo shop using a blue overtone to create something darker. I hate using that word but it will have to do. I also like gritty looking photos as you can tell perusing through my photoblog. So I pushed this photo until it almost broke, it very well could be broken in your eyes but I like the look of this shot. The best part of this photo to me is the drummer dude second from the right peaking over the shoulder of the guitarist, my favorite part! Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Before Curtain
2007-05-27 13:12:00
I had the opportunity to photograph a dance company here in Kansas City Reach...a movement collective inc . a couple of weekends back. I decided I wanted to create something different than the performers putting on makeup or getting ready for the performance. Instead I placed my camera on the ground and focused on a few of the dancers warming up and stretching before the curtain rose. The composition on this is very top heavy but I do like how the light falls on the foot, something that drew me into this while shooting. After you are done reading this, hop on over to my new website KCDrama.com.which features some of my performing arts from past assignments from Kansas City and surrounding areas. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Overworked Photoshop Golf Photo
2007-05-24 06:18:00
I felt like destroying a photo in Adobe Photo shop so I started with this golf photo I took in Las Vegas while covering a golf tournament. Not wanting to completely shred the photograph and still keep some dignity with my work I figured this golf shot with a mountain in it would work. The setting was overcast just before a big rain in Las Vegas. An eerie yellowish light was filling the golf course and falling on all of the white collar workers who partake in said event. I pushed this mid-tones, dropped the highlights and opened up the shadows while tweaking the color in post. I also sharpened this with a large radius smart sharp in Photosho p . Just something else to add to this blog to try and keep people coming back, hope it doesn't drive you away seeing this overworked photoshop file. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Automobile Show
2007-05-07 09:17:00
This was something I shot a while back from a car show in Kansas City. I was shooting this on assignment for the Kansas City Star when I was freelancing for them. I lined up this photograph and out of the blue this father and son walked up and started looking at this old automobile. It framed up perfectly, with the entire front of the car and the element of the two figures looking in the window. I walked away from this shoot with a nice colorful shot that shows an editorial side of this car show. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Early Morning Football
2007-04-22 10:41:00
Shooting low with a wide angle lens at about 6:30am is what it took to make this photograph. I had an assignment to shoot the first practice of the season a couple of years ago for a newspaper I was freelancing for. This were two high school seniors and I believe if memory serves - they were the captains of their football team. The kids were running defensive drills and I placed the camera on the ground and tilted it upward below the football players. I was very happy with how this silhouette turned out. This was another photograph that I have in my editorial portfolio. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Dental teeth
2007-04-18 12:55:00
I am very fond of this photo. I had it in my portfolio while I was shooting editorial work. I dug it up and posted it here for all 3 of you to see. This set of huge teeth were in the dental office while on assignment for a profile of a dentist in Kansas City so I thought it would be cool to shoot through them. What do you think about this??? Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Music, concerts and live performances
2007-04-16 12:13:00
I love music, everything single thing about it. I decided to post some of the photographs that I have shot in the past at concerts and live performances. Starting from the top left going clockwise - Diana Krall, The Strokes, Social Distortion and Keb' Mo'. A little bit of everything. Everything but country, I can not stand country music! Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Mud Volleyball Tournament
2007-04-14 08:49:00
While digging through some old files that I shot, I ran across an old portfolio that I had put together while shooting editorial / photojournalism style. This was an assignment that I shot for the Kansas City Star a couple of years back. A high school in Missouri puts on this mud volleyball tournament as a fundraiser. It was a lot of fun shooting this, they made a couple of courts at a lake up north by digging up the dirt and filling it in with water. Needless to say it was a mess. I am sure the kids had a good time while doing something good for the community. I will be posting a few other photos from this portfolio soon so check back for the updates. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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My latest website - www.kcfaces.com
2007-04-10 13:47:00
Just finished up with my new website www.kcfaces.com and wanted to post it here for you guys to take a look at. I designed it to showcase a lot of the work that I do not have on my main site at Aaron Lindberg. This is host my family photos, band photographs, some modeling and head shots. It is a weird mix of subject matter but I think I needed to get this information out there so that more people can see what else I have been working on with out cluttering up my main website. Go check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Bodybuilder - Jay Cutler
2007-04-09 12:04:00
I have had the pleasure of meeting Jay Cutler on several occasions. For those of you who do not know who he is, let me throw these out there. IFBB 2006 Mr. Olympia, IFBB 2002, 2003 & 2004 Arnold Classic Champion and IFBB 2001, 2003, 2004 & 2005 Mr. Olympia Runner Up. Basically Jay Cutler is this years Mr. Olympia, or the man who now holds one of the highest honors in professional bodybuilding. The dude is freaking large, I do not know his measurements but I am sure that when he is walking down the street people get out of the way. Mr. Cutler is a very nice man and in the same breath I would not mess with him because he could break you in half without blinking. I decided to post a photograph that I took of Jay Cutler at his house in Las Vegas, Nevada during one of our shoots over the past year. Jay has graced dozens of bodybuilding magazines, probably to many to keep track of. I bet if you flipped through one today you would find a couple of references to him in the pages. I ...
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Marisa - Photo Booth
2007-04-08 01:34:00
This is an oldy but goodie that I had posted on my website before I switched from Flash to HTML. This is one of my favorite photos from last season that I shot in downtown Kansas City Missouri at a photo booth. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photo grapher Aaron Lindberg.
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Downtown Shoot
2007-04-04 12:19:00
I finally got to get outside and start photographing in downtown Kansas City again now that it has been nicer weather. It felt good to be downtown shooting again, I feel that this is my playground. The urban look and feel mixed with the human for is a favorite subject that I can not get enough of. I found a new, fun little website called Tumblr.com. Take a look at my page on that site - Aaron Lindberg Tumblr and let me know what you think about it. Basically it is a blurb website that hosts really quick bit of randomness. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Downtown Washington, D.C.
2007-03-29 12:41:00
Something about this photo made me post it on my photoblog and I really do not know why. This is way out of the norm for my shooting style. I can not explain it but it is so straight on that it almost makes me sick looking at it, yet at the same time I love it. I took this photograph inside a restaurant of the hotel I was staying at in downtown Wash ington , DC. It was snowing and we were killing time before we left to catch our flight back home. The scene was a little bit warmer than depicted here, I remember the stone of the building across the street was a bit brownish but I tweaked this in Photoshop to cool it off and create a somber/cold look to it. I really do not know why I posted this on my photoblog but thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Stuffed Animals
2007-03-27 05:38:00
This photograph use to be on my main website at www.aaronlindberg.com. I took it down when I redesigned the website and felt that I should revisit this photo and make sure that I still show it off. This was a lot of fun to shoot, she brought in 2 large trash bags full of stuffed animals. We threw them on the floor and laid her on top of them for this shoot. I shot this with 2 softboxes from the top. The light on the right was about 3/4 of a stop brighter than the other to create more side light. The photograph holds a lot of color which I really like plus the cuteness/playfulness is something that I was set on creating. Sometimes it is hard to create something exactly as I see it shaping in my head but this one is very close to what I imagined it. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Bus wrap sticker thing...
2007-03-26 23:46:00
I posted this on my previous blog and while digging through my files this weekend I found it again and wanted to repost it on my new blog. Some of my work has ended up one a bus out there in California and if anyone is out in San Diego and happens to see this bus, can you take a photo of it either with your cell phone or if you have a camera and send it to me at aaron@aaronlindberg.com - I want to see what this looks like in action. This is just a fun post to my photoblog that I wanted to share. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas - Part 10 - FINAL
2007-03-24 04:03:00
Part 10 and Final of "40 Minutes in Down town Olathe, Kansas ." This is the last post from this series that I will be posting here on my photoblog. For the past 10 days I have introduced a new photograph each day for you to take a look at what I shot while in downtown Olathe, Kansas on 3-14-2007. Again all of the posts from this shoot were to get textures and this is what developed. This was one of the last frames that I took before heading back to the office to upload the photos. Thanks for taking a look at this and continue to see what I will be posting in the next couple of days. Let me know what you think about these. Hate them? like them? drop me a comment and what you like/dislike about them. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas - Part 9
2007-03-23 01:53:00
Part 9 of "40 Minutes in Down town Olathe, Kansas ." This is a cross walk that I happen to take a photograph of. I snapped 3 or 4 shots of the lines in the street before moving on with my escapade. I didn't really think about how this looked or how it would turn out, I just sort of shot it and moved on. After my initial editing process I found that I really liked this. What stuck out to me was the shadow from the street light that crosses into the middle of the photograph. Just to let you know this is the second to last photo from this series that I will post. Friday will be the last day!!! Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas - Part 8
2007-03-21 12:53:00
Part 8 of "40 Minutes in Down town Olathe, Kansas ." My favorite photo from this shoot. I can not explain it but this is my favorite photo from this series. The juxtaposition of nature verses the buildings. The light verses shadow, red brick verses white wall verses Tree. Everything about this was enjoyable to photograph. This photograph is more of conceptual thought and not a good photograph. I will not market this photo, not even post it anywhere else on my websites. I most likley will not make a print of this. But this one is a personal favorite, it will be one of the photos that will stick with me for a long time. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas - Part 7
2007-03-20 12:53:00
Part 7 of "40 Minutes in Down town Olathe, Kansas ." Again - I do not think this photograph goes along with the original idea of "texture" which was the main idea going into this shoot in Olathe, Kansas. I did see this bland looking building while walking the streets and enjoyed how uniform the windows and floors created a pattern of glass and concrete. It really reminded me of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album cover. This was the first thing that popped in my head when looking through the lens. The street light is an element that I am fond of. Its not overbearing and blends into the windows but to me it stands out. Keep checking back, Friday will be the last installment of this series of my work. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas - Part 6
2007-03-19 12:53:00
Part 6 of "40 Minutes in Down town Olathe, Kansas ." This is not exactly a texture shot, at least what drew me into it was not the texture. What made me stop and aim my camera was the shiny metal of the street signs verses the blus sky. The refletive lights off of the metal gave me enough light make a 2-3 stops differnece in my exposure wich helped in creating the nice blue sky. This is probably one of my favorite shots from the day, no particular reason why but it is. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas - Part 5
2007-03-18 12:53:00
Part 5 of "40 Minutes in Down town Olathe, Kansas ." Now that the sun has been out longer and the weather has risen above 30 degrees, the grass it starting to get some green coloring in it here in Kansas. Even though the green is not at its full punch, it has enough in it to create a nice compliment to the red brick on the sidewalk in downtown Olathe. It still looks muted but it is better than the brown coloring that consumes the grass during the winter months. Spring is close, time to start shooting portraits outside again soon!!! Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas - Part 4
2007-03-18 01:02:00
Part 4 of "40 Minutes in Down town Olathe, Kansas ." This is a simple photo, nothing special about the subject, just that the light made me stop and photograph it. What really drew me into this was the way that the light fell on the two different materials on the entry way and the play on the shadows. I do not have much to say about this other than it was something that I liked and wanted to include this photo into this set of photographs that I shot in Olathe, Kansas. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas - Part 3
2007-03-17 00:41:00
Part 3 of "40 Minutes in Down town Olathe, Kansas ." Two signs, side by side with 2 completely different results from the weather. It is hard to say how long these signs have been here, but by the looks of the rusted bolts at the bottom of the sign, I would say that they were put in place at the same time. It is interesting to see how both signs have worn down while being attached on the same poll under the same tree near the same building. I guess if I were a sign maker I would look into the metal sign on the left and wonder why it has done better than its neighbor on the right. The one of the right is more interesting with it cracks and grittiness! Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas - Part 2
2007-03-15 13:59:00
Part 2 of "40 Minutes in Down town Olathe, Kansas ." I saw this beat up old wooden sign and knew that it would make a cool shot that I would like to post on my photoblog. This was a no parking sign in downtown Olathe, Kansas near some shops that I parked in back of. The cracking of the paint and wood really drew me into this shot. Plus the contrast of the lettering with the faded out white background made a nice juxtaposition of light verses dark. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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40 Minutes in Downtown Olathe, Kansas
2007-03-14 13:59:00
For the next ten days I will be posting photographs that I took on March 13th, 2007. I traveled 5 minutes by car to downtown, Olathe, Kansas to work on a few photographs. The idea that was given to shoot was "Texture." I do not think that I have been on a texture hunt since I was in college so I thought this would be interesting concept to shoot, little did I know that I would have found some very interesting thinks along my 40 minute excursion. (I know that it was 40 minutes because I checked the metadata, of the photos - first one was taken at 1:37pm and the last one that I will be posting was snapped at 2:17pm) Do not forget to stop by each day for the next 10 days as I will be posting a new photograph each day until Friday March 23rd, 2007. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron Lindberg.
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Fitness - Las Vegas, Nevada
2007-03-10 00:11:02
After shooting this photograph, I looked at it on the back of the camera and thought that I loved everything about this. When I got back to Kansas City, I looked at it on my computer monitor and wasn't very happy with how it turned out. 4 weeks went by and after revisiting this photo, I realized that I really did like it. I believe that I enjoy this photograph so much is because it feels like it was something that I do not normally shoot. Not the subject matter, but composition and framing of the objects. I do not know how to explain it but I feel that I did something outside of the box with my photography. It is not that great of a photograph but something inside my mind and camera found something new. It is very difficult to explain in writing so I am going to shut up now and let you decide what you think about it. By the way, this was shot in Las Vegas Nevada during a fitness camp I shot while I was out in Sin City. Thanks for checking this out - Kansas City Photographer Aaron L...
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