beauty

While working I often listen to music. Sometimes I just want to sing out loud and dance ha ha. I have good taste in music. Although the number of songs I have to choose from is few, I love it. Today I got to go back through the photographs I took in the summer. It’s so fun to go back and see what I did. I really love many of the images. Summertime does have its green pretty moments. There’s always beauty all around! You just have to look for it. I’m sure where you work is also a beautiful place.

How To Install The Professional Mist Kit

This part of the video shoot was done on my first day on the job. It started with a pedicure and then in front of the camera holding a hammer. I couldn't remember the last time I used a camera.

How To Install The PVC Mist Kit

There is so much that goes into making videos. Photographs were also taken during this video shoot. Sometimes you have to be willing to go out of your comfort zone at work.

In FRONT of the camera: How To Install The Portable Mist Kit

This is one of the video's I helped with during the summer. This is me in this video. It's kinda weird to see myself in front of the camera for a change.

stock photo

Last week one of my assignments is to help find a stock photo for the thermostat packaging. It is fun to see all the photo’s out there. Stock photo’s is like pinterest for photographers. It’s fun to look through millions of photographs. I love looking at pictures. Some of them are so funny. You can tell some of them are super posed. I don’t know any couples who sit backwards on the couch to watch tv. Usually the tv is in front of them. Stock photo is a great place to put your photographs out. I’ll have to look into posting my photographs for people to use.

Sice the stock photo is for thermostat packaging I’m looking for a candid one with a dad and kids. They already have photo’s with mother’s with their sons and daughters. It’s hard to find a photo indoors of a couple that isn’t super cheesy. I’m surprised how many photo’s there are with the family on their electronics. Technology has changed so much.

sun

 

I'll only be in the train for two more days. I've loved getting to see the pink sky. The blue sky has been coming out from behind the clouds and it makes such a difference. I'm so excited to be down there soon and not have to commute. I'm grateful for pink skies in the morning and night!

1.17.14

Today I got to use a Canon T3i to take this photo. I may be biased, but I just love Nikon. The buttons are in much more practical spots and it’s much easier to pick your focus spot. I have been using Nikon for three years so I’m all adjusted to it. It was fun to use something new though. I also did a clip mask of this product because it’s going to be placed on a brochure. I became a pen tool expert in the summertime. I drew many graphics with the pen tool. It is a useful tool when making selections. It was fun to go in the warehouse and use the materials available. I found two white matt boards that were dirty, but I picked the cleanest spots of the boards to set the pvc on. I brought the two lights as close to the pvc as possible in order for it to be lit enough.

This morning was doughnut Friday. Everyone looks forward to it. Especially me ha ha. Those darn sweet teeth I have;) I’m finishing up my second week of my internship! I’m liking it much more than in the summertime. Everynight there’s the most gorgeous sunsets that I see from the train. I’m so grateful the days are getting longer and I get to see the sunlight. Pink skies are my favorite. The other night the moon was so huge when we got home. We move in two weeks! Hopefully we’ll find a house soon. I’m really looking forward to having a tiny commute and having time to work out!

Product

Today I photographed this mock up. In the summer I would print out all these for mock ups. They printed out on really long big sticker paper. Then I would cut them out. There were many circles to punch out after I’d put  them onto the matt board. I had fun this morning laying these all out tand adjusting the light. The metal looks pretty cool. It’s nice and shiny. Afterwards I edited off the circles that would be used to attach these watering items. Light makes such a difference to photo’s. This photo isn’t even edited!

Software

My main project while I am working at Orbit is to organize all of the media. First my assignment has been to research the DAM (digital asset management) software’s. Who would have thought there were so many different software’s that almost all do the same thing. It’s hard to decide which one would be best for the whole company. I’ve learned that so much time is wasted looking for media. This software will have all of the photos in one place for all of the marketers to have access to. I’ve learned there is so many different file formats to choose from. The engineers use solid works and there hasn’t been a DAM software found that is compatible with their solid works files.

If I was purchasing this for my own company I would choose the most inexpensive software. They seem to all do the exact same thing. The pricing isn’t up front. They have to calculate it which makes sense it depends on how many files you’ll upload and how many people need it, but there should be an estimate somewhere. There are so many details in business.

Picture

Today I took a pictures of the product below for a power point. I was reminded of the studio photography class in the spring. I never would have thought I would remember so much from that class. While I was in that class I hated it. I’m still glad I took it though. Today I went into the spa room to shoot alone. It was fun. It didn’t take me very long. I set the object on top of a white cardboard box in order to have it closer to the light. I used my Tamron 70-300 lens. I had to stand on a ladder in order to have my camera focus. I used two lights and left the lights in the room on.

 

Today I also was asked if I would fly up to Portland to photograph a wedding! I’m so excited! We still have to work out details, but I’m pretty sure I’ll get to go! I’m so grateful for where I am in my life now compared to where I was a year ago. Photographing weddings does has many scary things that could go wrong, but I really enjoy it while I’m in action and when I get to edit the images afterwards! I only remember being on a plane once, but I’m twenty. I could fly alone! I’d get to the airport early and be safe. It’s kinda scary carrying expensive equipment with you, but things will work out. The wedding is in april! In Oregon! Many tulip fields are all around there! It would be awesome if I could go to one to photograph. There’ll be tulips around the temple though! Gorgeous! And their house is where they’ll have the reception and it’s so pretty! So many photo ops. I think life is turning around this 2014. Hopefully the rental we checked out yesterday works out and we can find a good house quick!

You ROCK

 Meetings are actually my favorite. I enjoy listening to others and it's good for me to sometimes get out of my comfort zone and speak with many people watching me. There is a monthly meeting called you ROCK. ROCK is an acronym for Recognition of your Creativity and Knowledge. It used to be called Be lean Go Green, but there was a popular demand for a revamp. Then I got to design it. After I left, a few alterations were made. It's fun to see how it evolved. 

It's a fun meeting we all read off our compliments to coworkers and then they give us a gift card of some kind. Last time the Be Lean Go Green occurred on my Birthday when I was here for the summer. I chose a kneaders gift card. This time I received compliments from my boss he said, " Amazing work on the photo background project and finishing in record time." My Dad's was funny he said, "Keeping lunch conversation in-line and politically correct." My supervisor said "Being willing to help with everything including climbing ladders and setting set for shoot."

I love being helpful to others. Staying busy makes the time go much quicker.

spider webs

Today I went out to the warehouse to help set I where we will be doing the filming. I learned its important to make do with what you have. We had to figure out how to make the backdrop fill where the shot would be. I climbed up the ladder and tied the screen up. There was spider webs on the wirey rope. After when I was back organizing pictures I had the creepy crawlers. I was worried there was a spider in my hair ha ha.

My days in the light go by fast. 

seven habits

For work I'm reading seven habits for highly effective people by Steven covey. It reminds me of the communication class interpersonal theory. I love reading about communication. Today I read about how we need to think if others problems instead of thinking about how others will interpret us. We need to think of how others are feeling. Don't be selfish. 

thankful

When I was getting off the train today a women told me my glasses were cute and asked where I got them. I'm so grateful for kind strangers. Little did she know I've been feeling self conscious because my eyes decided to be allergic to makeup so I'm trying to let them heal by wearing none. 

byui love

I think my love for byui is too strong that when I leave for good and graduate it will hurt too much. I love the classes, devotionals, wards, gym, and all the people. I love how normal it is for someone you've talked to a little on Sundays to come over to your apartment and you become good friends.

I'm normally the only girl at lunch. Usually my dad is there (ya, he helped me get the job the first time. Then they saw that I worked hard and hired me back.) It's fun getting to spend so much time with my dad. Lunch is good I listen to them talk. Work environment is much different than at byui. I want to be friends with who I work with, but it's different when I'm a girl and I'm the youngest there. Today my dad had a lunch meeting. Lunch isn't awkward when I'm there with him too. I don't want to seem anti social staying at my cubicle, but then I feel like they'd be glad I didn't come so they could talk about whatever. Instead I stayed in my cubicle and emailed a question to my intern professor and then posted a wedding on my photography blog 

I miss my byui friends... or people my age who I can talk to normally. Work is work.

big product

One of the big products was the yard enforcer. I created this image in the summer knowing I wouldn't be there during Christmastime. It was never used on social media, but one of the owners of the company loved it and got a really good laugh. The product is to keep un wanted animals out of your yard. This was one of my favorite graphics created.

product photography

Orbit hires the same photographers to do their beauty shots and product shots. I get to work with them and learn from them. Yesterday in the office they are working in a poster. The photo is supposed to be blown up huge, but the pictures are all overexposed. I get to see every side of the spectrum. I see the photos shot and then being used in packaging. I never realized how often pictures are used. Photography is a good career if you get your name out there and give quality work. 

It's so important to give clients your best. If you have too many off days a client might find someone else to hire.

Commercial photography is a good area. The photographer spent all day shooting and then gives the client a disk without editing or cropping anything. He left extra space that the client could decide what to display.

I've learned how important it is to be prepared and do your best.

soft box

Today was my second day working for orbit the second round. This time I have my own cubicle. I love it so much. Today I put up a few pictures to make it my own. It's so nice to be where the lights are on. The day goes much faster.

The project I'm working on now is getting all of the photos ready to be posted on the photo software. I go through each image and make the background transparent. Today I did photos of metal objects. Metal is the hardest subject to photograph. It's like a mirror and it is so tricky to not get other objects in it. I learned that you don't have to be a perfect photographer in order to get work and be hired. I'm continually reminded of what I've learned in my photography classes at byui.

Here's a picture of my cute cubicle and the commute weather tonight. I'm grateful the front runner has wifi!

entertainment

Commuting three hours a day was hard. Especially when you're not really a morning person and thrive for light. You find your entertainment though. One day we were almost to our stop on the way home. After sitting all day I feel pretty antsy to just get home at the end of the day. I remember hearing a young married guys conversation on the phone. I was laughing all night. Maybe I thought it was really funny because I was looking for anything. I overheard him on the phone saying. "I'm twenty five! She can't tell me what to do." then "Ya, she told me to go to bed..." "I'm a twenty five year old, I'll do what I want." I found it so funny. He must have been talking about his wife. I frequently learned things I should and shouldn't do as a wife.
Lunch breaks. I was usually the only female in the lunch room. All of the men would tell situations where they didn't think before they speak or things they shouldn't tell their wives. I found their stories very funny and entertaining. If you've heard the song pocketful of poetry by mindy gledhill that's exactly how I feel. After sitting in front of a desk all day I'll take any entertainment I can get. Men say and do such dumb things sometimes ha ha. (I know women do the same!) One of the guys had his wife mowing the lawn when she was very pregnant and the neighbor paid another neighborhood kid to mow it ha ha ha. Then if the husband cooks on the weekends he should tell the wife to get a weekend job. (that wasn't very nice! the wife is taking care of kids, cooks, cleans, and does plenty. The women is the nurturer) It's so nice of the husband to cook on weekends! Another funny oops was the family was waiting for the dad to bbq and he told the wife "you could bbq too." Ha ha barbequing is just something men should do. In all the movies and everything it's always the men barbequing. There's fire under there. Women leave the fire to the men ha ha. They love it! One more... one of the guys wives wanted to make a craft for their date night. Bad idea! Ha ha. In the future I'll keep my crafts small... except for house fixing stuff. I wouldn't call it a date though. Men+crafting=bad.
It's a good learning experience to see how the other side of how someday things will be. I learned things I should and shouldn't do to make things easier for my spouse. After hearing them talk makes me realize I should brush off offensive things people say because they're not really trying to offend.

before the sun

My internship is located an hour and a half away from my home. Each morning I woke up at five-thirty in the morning! Even in the summer that's just before the sun comes up. Too early. We would leave the house at six-thirty after making our lunch and eating breakfast. Breakfast at six a.m.? Ya, way too early to eat. My stomach was always growling like crazy by ten a.m.. In the quiet "cave" where you could hear people breathing, my stomach could definitely be heard.
Each morning we would drive to the station and then ride the front runner for an hour. Providers sacrifice so much. I learned that I really want my future spouse to love his job. I rode the frontrunner with a whole bunch of providers. They make such sacrifice to provide for their families. I hope that they enjoy what they do.

the cave

During the summer I worked in the room that everyone in the office called the "cave". It was the design room. I was in there with three other designers. It was the quietest room in the office. You could hear everyone breathing. It was very rare anyone would ever ask any questions of each others personal lives. The only time I can remember anyone every talking about something other than work was when talked about the new comic book movie. Talking in that room was pretty rare. They were all very nice to me. I loved the smell of my co-workers daily morning drink.
One of the reasons everyone called that room the cave was because the lights were always off. Our computers were twenty four inch macs. It was such a big screen! Bigger than the TV we had at home. The screen was way too bright for me in the dark room. I turned my brightness down as low as it could go in hopes that I could protect my eyes. I couldn't understand why the lights were kept off, but of course as the newby I wouldn't be the one to turn the light on even though I was almost always the first one there every morning. I wanted them to like me and didn't want to throw off their groove. There was a day I was the last one in the "cave" so I decided to turn on the light. I sat back down at my computer and it was just like a mirror. Then I realized that was why the light was always kept off.
I learned to make the best of a work environment I wouldn't prefer and someday you'll realize the reasons why the conditions are that way. 

social media

As an intern in the summer one of my jobs was to create images for the social media pages. The image below were all taken and created by me. I learned how to create an image from scratch. I was taught how to create textures and clipping masks. Commercial photography is much different from portrait photography. Portrait photography will forever be my favorite type of photography. A sprinkler part, tomato, flower, etc. doesn't make your heart melt like a photograph of a child.
The only fonts I used while working there were the corporate fonts purchased. Companies have to purchase fonts to use commercially. Someday I'll need to purchase a font for my own photography business. It's important to be uniform. Continuity is important for a company.
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing my fonts being used on a professional business page that is seen by thousands. 

 I took and image similar to the photo above without water droplets on it. Orbit is a irrigation company. Without water Orbit wasn't represented well. It sometimes takes two tries to get a usable image. I took a water bottle and photographed the leaves after sprinkling water on them myself.

i.k. stands for intern kaylie

During the seven week break I worked as a Photography and Design intern at Orbit Irrigation. It was such a great learning experience. As I worked there I helped out on mist video shoots. My first day on the job one of my first assignments was to go get a manicure. I was a hand model for the instruction shots.
Blaire Kunz is the professional photographer for orbit. He photographs the beauty shots for the main pictures of the packaging shots. He told me about his photography experience in New York. He was working pretty much twenty four seven. Since he was starting out he worked under a professional and shot weddings every weekend. I learned that success takes so much hard work.
Spring semester 2013 I took the class Studio Photography from Brother Brown. Brother Brown would always tell us about the real world of photography. He would always say "If it will go wrong it will". I always just figured Brother Brown was just a pessimist, but then I learned it really was true. We need to be prepared and plan ahead.
An entire day was spent getting beauty shots of two of the homes. Mist is very hard to capture. Brother Brown always said "get it right in the camera" that really was ingrained in me that semester. We couldn't get the mist to show up in photo's the first day so we had to go back the next day. We planned the day we were supposed to get things done. No photographer is perfect. None. No one in this world is perfect. No matter how long we've been doing photography we'll still find things that need improvement. We planned and went back the next day and the right shots were taken. If we would have been ready two hours earlier the first day the timing would have been right.
It was a great learning experience. I'll be making more posts about working at Orbit in the summer. I'm working back at Orbit now. Today was my first day back.

During our video shoot week I photographed on the side. This image was used for blog posts on the company blog.