i had an awesome shoot yesterday with gwen & jen. they were such troopers… hiking around in 90+ degree heat and humidity through rocks, bugs and weeds wearing dresses and flip flops. :) they even helped carry out the infamous 50+lbs purple leather chair into the middle of a field. you go, girls. they totally rocked this shoot! here are some of my favorites from the day:
i’ve been doing some more lighting experiments lately. this friday i found myself in peace camera downtown buying way too much expensive equipment. now i have to lug around all my equipment in geoff’s wheeling catcher’s bag in order to carry it all. but now i have lighting for every possible scenario ever!!… for now. :)
so this weekend i am doing 3 portrait shoots that i’m super excited about (images will be posted later this week). the lighting will be vastly different from the majority of my work but vastly improved (in my opinion). i am pretty much always learning when it comes to photography (and everything else)… and am looking forward to getting some new material in my portrait section.
we unfortunately had to reschedule the trash the dress session while we wait to get a shooting permit at american tobacco, but it should still happen before the end of the month… and i am so looking forward to that!
so some of this lighting equipment is basically like a giant play tent for cats that you put a flash in and hoist upon a light stand… a very expensive play tent for cats. needless to say, we were hesitant to take it apart and put it back together frequently (because we all know what a pain assembling and disassembling a tent is) so we had to lock the giant thing in several different rooms to avoid the kittens shredding it to pieces and/or mistaking it for some sort of foily litter box.
playing in the street at midnight:
come into the light, carol anne.
geoff… being a good assistant and standing in the middle of the road. “car!”….
“…game on!.”
les paul died today at the age of 94 from complications from pneumonia. he made some awesome guitars. i play acoustic guitar (poorly) so my dad’s les paul feels like picking up a small car or boat. but apparently this dude was totally having concerts in his 90s. how rockin’ is that? way to go, dude. you pioneered some awesome stuff and were rocking in your 90s. so here’s to you, eternalized forever in this plastic statue of slash playing one of your guitars.
woah oh, sweet les paul of mine…
i love macro photography because you can make relatively uninteresting things look so cool. not that this plastic statue of slash isn’t cool or anything, but in real life it looks very much like a tiny, frail, plastic statue. in macro photography slash looks like he’s having himself a good time – and i like that. my favorite part of taking pictures of weddings or engagements it the tiny details in the rings and dresses. composing the shot is my absolute favorite part of photography.
i know that in this blog i write about everything…and most of the time it has little to do with photography although it contains a lot of photography. i use this blog to showcase photographs that i take on a daily basis that show a different side of me than those viewed in my portfolio. sure, if i do a shoot i really love i will post extra pictures in here, but i mainly keep it for topics, updates for family and friends, and showing interesting every day things in a slightly different light.
most photographers have a blog that soley showcases their everyday portraits and work that doesn’t make the cut into their portfolio. however, i have come across several who do what i do – blog about their everyday life and post random pictures. i like that. i can see their best regular work from weddings and portraits in their portfolio, but i love seeing beautiful photographs of random things they have lying around the house that they’re blogging about. a picture of a slash statue is never going to make it into anyone’s portfolio, but doesn’t his photograph deserve to be displayed somewhere too? :)
