We did find lots of places to get out of the rain… but we got plenty of wet.
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Right to side of the road on our way up to Park City
Our very first shots of the day… back when we were kinda dry.
Bridevale falls… one of the only times I’ve done pics there.
Thought I’d try something interesting up in park city.
And below – More rain.
And you always need one for the grandma to see their faces
You can’t Pose real emotions
You can’t Pose real smiles
You can’t Pose real love
You can imitate these things with your posing.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
You can enable them to happen.
You can put them in the situation where they can let it happen… for real.
How someone stands brings out a feeling, where they put their hands, how close they are to the other person, even their environment, the backdrop, the people watching, the lighting, your distance from them… will all be in the mix of the feeling you’ll get from the picture.
So yes the poses do play a part but you can’t think of them as what creates emotion… but as what enables them to make it happen for real.
You put them in positions where emotions blossom (to use a nature metaphor)
PERSONALITY
Perhaps one of the reason i’m known for bringing out someone’s real personality in pictures is because I don’t set time limits… we aren’t racing against the clock and they don’t view me as an hourly worker. I’m a friend. They trust me A Lot. And with those two concerns out of the way and their comfort with me they can focus on what’s important their interaction with eachother.
“Look at me, good, now look at eachother. Good. Now have a moment” That’s pretty much my shtick. I don’t care what their idea of “a moment” is, I want it to be something that just happens between them. Something that’s their own. I’m putting them in situations where the real them can come out.
I’m not here to carefully place mannequins in MY scene… I want to create a beautiful and meaningful scene around my couples. This is for them… not me.
I can grasp the difference of what a forced or fake smile is like. Even when some people’s real smile looks like a fake smile, that’s fine… that’s them. I give them the situation where they smile or laugh because something really makes them smile or laugh and catch that. We can tell.
Sam (The Groom in these pictures) really wears his emotions and therefore his expressions on his sleeves as the saying goes. Its easy to catch in his joy and excitement. They both interacted well together. We didn’t take pictures for 2hrs because I didn’t get good pictures for the first 30 minutes but because there were moments later on where they learned to let go and feel comfortable and explore beyond the normal interactions they had done the first 30 minutes.
Some positions they were more comfortable than others. Like at night when we couldn’t see them at all… I just said you guys are in charge of your faces because I won’t know until the flash lights you up and I look at the pictures later.
His name is Walter
I lovingly refer to him as “Walter the Horse”
I think he was the highlight of the second day of shooting for the 3rd annual charity shoot.
Walter deserves his own blog post
(I’ll even throw in some pics of his chauffeurs)
I took these pictures July 3rd
Thought I’d post them to be seen… better late than never.
It’s a sign of all those from later in July and August to be posted some time soon.
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So it’s not often a portrait photographer would be putting his life and equipment on the line.
Sure an adventure photographer or even some kinds of sport photographers.
Absolutely for a wartime photographer …
But not a portrait or wedding photographer!!
Well I might not have died falling into the river I’d say 50/50 with the almost freezing mountain water. But it was sure possible to fall in and the camera woulda been toast.
And those rocks were crazy slippery.
Perhaps I’m a wimp or perhaps I want to make it into a bigger deal than it was.
UPDATE: I guess I was right in thinking it was pretty risky… here’s a story of an actual death
Let’s just say my heart was pumping getting out on the rock and the dang thing was slick as anything… but stephen thought ahead and put towels on the rocks … or it would have been impossible.
This is stephen getting the towels on the rock. Doesn’t really show that there was no easy way to get to the rock.
I’m sad I didn’t get him to take a picture of me on the rock… but my thoughts were elsewhere.
Might we add the obvious!! They were out on that log… they were pretty crazy too!
And stephen!! Well the kids just a stud… jumping around on those slick rocks!
Going back to my bag when the battery ran out. Etc Etc
Fun times!!
This is only the second time I’ve been up Big Cottonwood Canyon.
The first time was on a film set at night in winter, so that probably doesn’t count.
I went with a friend Beth and another photographer Jeffrey.
You can see Jeff’s work on flickr
All of my pictures from the event, keeping in mind I don’t know how to be selective are on SmugMug Gallery
I have set it up so the first 40 and then the first 80 are the ones that I prefer the most. So that way you don’t need to look at all of them.
We made 3 stops and throughout the canyon the fall colors were in various stages of brillance, but in most spots the trees were now devoid of leaves for the year… sad.
Lots of pictures of Aspens changing color
A Bunch of Pictures of the Storm Mountain area
I went crazy on taking pictures of this frost on the grass
Silver lake up at Brighton was partly frozen over.
This is where I actually placed the camera on the lake to take a few pictures.
The moon when we set off on our adventure was still full and hadn’t set yet.
Last weekend I traveled with 3 friends to Page, AZ
While there we visited Lake Powell hiked through a lesser slot canyon and did other smaller hikes around town.
Then on the way back to Provo we spent a few hours at Bryce Canyon National Park.
There are 4 galleries all require Flash to view.
Lake Powell 35 Images
Canyons (Around Page) 36 Images
Bryce Canyon 52 Images
Page Area 36 Images
