Perez Studios

Hello Everyone,

I am writing this post today to see if I could get some feedback from you all. 

I was surfing around on Blog Catalog and came across an interesting Discussion.  “Why don’t people leave a comment on my blog?”, was the title of the discussion.  I thought it was interesting because I hardly ever get comments posted on the site except for an occasional one here and there and not to mention the weekly bot trying to post some garbage on the site. 

So, I wanted to get some feedback from you and see how many of you are actually reading these posts and would like to share or contribute to this site?  I would love to have other writers/photographers on this site as well to share their ideas and thoughts with the rest of us.  If you feel the content on this site is not interesting enough then please share your thoughts and feelings with me.  I can take criticism, because I was in the Marine Corps. 

If you or someone you know could contribute or share their thoughts and ideas with me and the other readers on this site, I would appreciate your feedback and love to have you come on board as a contributor.  Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.  Thanks for reading!

Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to share with you the new look of Perez Studios.  I was getting tired of the old look of the old site so I decided it was time for a new theme.  The good thing about a new theme is its super easy with the Word Press Engine running your site. 

I have been using Word Press for a couple of years now to manage my blog site and I must say that it makes things easy.  It allows me to choose from a bunch of layouts and themes and with the click of a button, I have a new theme and look without having to know too much coding. 

Above you see a screenshot of the old look which was Layers 1.1.1.  I liked it but the black on the screen and the words weren’t pleasing to the eye on the black background. 

Above you see a screenshot of the new look which is iNove 2.3.  I like it that it has a white background but still has the look of the black on top.  I had to do some research to figure out how to manipulate the width of the css because it was too narrow and when you viewed the upcoming events it would shrink the calendar and not display it all. 

I went to this site to view tips on how to manipulate the css. 

Let me know what you think of the new look and if you have any ideas.

If you are interested in setting up a Word Press site then visit their website for more tips.  If you would like me to build one for you then I can do that as well.  I created a couple for some organizations and it is quick and easy.  The Word Press engine runs on a SQL database which is very quick to setup and keeps your entire website organized and running smooth. 

Call me for a free quote on setting up a website utilizing Word Press for you or your organization.

Here are some websites I did that run Word Press.

Mendota Pentecostal Church of God

Mary Allen’s Country Colors

I am working on building a new PC and I must say it gets pricey when you want to add things like redundancy.  I have been purchasing most of the parts from New Egg which is really great with the prices.  In fact I think just about all of the parts came from New Egg except for the processor which I got from my friend.  Nothing fancy on the cpu but my friend is going to over clock it for me.  Here is what we have in it so far.

This does not count all the taxes and shipping for all the different times I had to buy this and then realized I needed this.  That is always a pain.  I plan on installing Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit on the OS.  I also have a 120GB SATA drive that I plan on hosting my OS on and using the 4 – 1.5TB drives in a RAID 5 configuration and use it to store my music, photos and documents on.  I will have another 1.5TB drive that I plan on using for Backups which I know I will have to upgrade that soon to keep all the backups on.  Thankfully I use Storage Craft to do all my backups and I must say it is the coolest way for backups. 

If anyone has any feedback I would appreciate it.  I am hoping to have this system up and running by next Friday since I have a Photography Gig coming up.  Wish me luck folks!

I was driving to work this morning and couldn’t help to notice the beauty over on the west side of the valley.  Lots of fresh snow up there.  I think it is amazing when those mountains get snow on them because usually they are dead and ugly without any life to them.  Now they are green and beautiful.   I shot this photo from my car so it wasn’t really in focus where I wanted it.  I cropped it in Adobe Photoshop to get the shape I want.

I photographed this shot on my way to work this morning.  It was funny because when I left home it was nice and clear and then I got just outside of town where I work at and it started to get foggy.  I usually avoid this road when its foggy but I decided to catch it because of the fog and I didn’t want to miss the shot.  My lens is either dirty or getting in really bad shape because I am noticing lots more spots on it.  I wonder if there is a place I can take it to for them to clean it or fix it.  Anyone have any ideas feel free to leave me a note.

While doing some research on the web on Adobe Lightroom, I came across a site from Adobe that is called Adobe TV.  The site actually has videos that show you how to use the Adobe programs.  I was amazed at all the helpful information that they have for viewers and what is even better is that it is all free.  I studied up on Adobe Lightroom and have been playing with the program to familiarize myself with the program.  I was amazed how Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop work hand in hand together to automate photos.  I even learned how catalogs work.  If you want to learn more or share your experience with Adobe TV then please do so.

This is a little sample of some weddings, birthdays that we have done in the past as far as a videographer.  I am planning on uploading a video slideshow of our photography work.  The quality on the video is a little grainy because we compressed the video so it would upload quicker.

I was driving to work on Tuesday morning and was coming up to a huge cloud.  I pulled over and photographed it.  The storm wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be but it started raining pretty good as I finished driving through the dark side of the storm.  It is pretty cool being able to enjoy the scenery on my way to work.

I photographed this crop duster getting loaded by a loader on my way home from work yesterday.  This is probably one of the weirdest things that this airport has no security what’s so ever.  You could practically walk right up to a plane and take off if you knew how to fly one.  I remember working for this one company in my hometown after I got out of the Marines.  I was hired as an Assistant Mechanic and they had us out there working in the heat as loaders loading rice into the plane.  Very interesting but something I don’t miss at all.  I worked there for about a couple of months before moving on to another place across the street selling tractor parts.  Not anything I miss either.

Seniors, don’t forget to get your Senior Portraits taken.  If you are interested please give me a call at (559) 933-7355 or contact me via email.  We took this photo of these two girls over by the rodeo grounds.  The colors were perfect in the background.  

Senior Portraits are available anytime at Perez Studios.  We can come to you or you can come to us.  Anyplace you want to take your portraits is fine by us.