I beg to differ.
OK so I guess I don’t here this too often these days since most people are realizing new ways to come up with new stuff.
Yes obey the rule usually, but when you got a handle on the typical reason why not to do it, then go ahead and try breaking it.
Try 14mm on a portrait… specially one where you want some landscape.
This isn’t the only one i’ve taken with this lens of people… I’ll do it often, but I really know my lens and what will be problematic.
Don’t rely on it… but play around.
I’ll also make sure to show off some portraits I’ve done with the fisheye that haven’t been the Jarvie Window
So just finished a pretty awesome photo shoot. (Up in American Fork Canyon)
I skimmed some of the pictures real fast (there were a Ton)
I thought to myself I could put up a quick teaser.
That would either be very nice to do so they could have something ASAP long before their expectations.
Or on the other hand it could be very mean to give them just a small bite and leave them hanging for a while til the rest of them are done.
So is it mean or nice?
I’m not really sure, I kind of just want to put these up so people can ohhh and ahhh and make me feel good about the pics.
P.s. Marco (one of the student-interns) came and assisted with lighting and took some pictures for himself. He learned lots about fun lighting and learned it’s all about setting stuff up fast in shoots like this. I made him work hard, but in the end I hope that helped him really know his stuff.
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(Above) I’m pretty happy with this picture because they wanted a picnic look and had these grand aspirations of the prototypical look, and when I saw this bright and yet rustic fence I thought this will be different and fun. They trusted me enough that their awesome idea would work in a grungy street in the middle of no where on a patch of here today gone tomorrow green grassy-weedy with a couple of surprise flowers. No big fancy set up needed… just plop down the blanket and basket and say, hey by the way we’re doing your picnic picture here now have yourself a little romantic moment while I lay down on this sidewalk.
A continuation
Last week I posted a teaser of some of the pictures I had taken at night of a couple in front of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Rest
Today I share the rest of the pictures taken throughout the day and throughout the city.
They get married in July in Idaho but she lives close to San Fransisco and I was already there doing a wedding, so he came down and we spent a few hours trying out dozens of locations throughout the city.
You want good pictures?
What makes for a great engagement picture session? a whole bunch of enthusiasm… and this couple certainly had it and it led to me trying out a bunch of new things. If a couple is good with “whatever” then that’s what happens, and if they want amazing and are willing to work for it, then that’s what we’ll strive for.
see the gallery of many many more pictures
No… no one is a pilot… but we saw it from the freeway and all thought it looked so scenic… and we were right!
(Above Right) – “Sitting on the dock of the bay -Watching the tide roll away - I’m just sitting on the dock of the bay - Wasting time”
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Recently I’ve started to take a lot more individual portraits at the engagement (and other) shoots.
Figure they (and parents and friends) would appreciate them.
The parents can put them on their wall next to their senior pictures and they can even use them on facebook if they like.
Why not… just takes a few seconds… kick the fiance out and see their personality by themselves not in their comfort zone with their love.
Then I’m able to tag them as such and in SmugMug make a smart gallery that will pull all these shots into one album… like so
They haven’t even had their engagement pictures yet, but the festival of colors were happening and I told them if they got a wedding dress I’d take some pictures of them.
They did… and therefore in the mass of 10k+ people I shot a few pictures for a few minutes.
It’s almost like a trash the dress event.
They get married this August
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OK so I can’t honestly remember the last time I was caught up on my editing.
I think it might have been February… but then again maybe it was last November.
And as of this morning… well I still am not. (Kinda)
I’ll always have something to edit.
I could a few road trips I’ve never touched or even Europe pictures (2006)
But as far as shoots I’ve done for money… well I think I’m pretty much caught up! Hurray.
And I think I’ll stay pretty caught up all the way until the christmas rush.
Here are pictures from the last shoot I did… get this… Friday (two days ago)
These were for an old friend Jason.
He grew up in Park City so that’s where we went.
This was the 3rd time downtown park city to do engagements… and I’m happy say we did all new places.
Park city has a lot of photographic spots to offer.
FULL GALLERY HERE
I specially loved how they were creating snow on the slopes and they were willing to go stand out in the field to get some… it was way cold there. (Much warmer downtown)
Since they met skiing they’ll probably like this one.
I love how in photography you’ll travel an hour just to get a picture of the sky.
The mayor of park city was here and he offered to get them married right then and there. In the end he just gave them a free print.
We were done but I just had to try out one last shot. Looking back i should have done more on this (meaning more poses to choose from)
The Rush is coming
It’ll be another fun and crazy christmas like last year, maybe just as much or more driving but with only 4-5 states.
Then a nice lull again to start getting on some projects that are long since needed to get rolling.
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This is Carissa and Jake
How Carissa became my first Intern
Carissa wrote me last winter asking to be an intern… at that time I thought it was out there and wasn’t really willing to commit to one person when I was having someone different come assist on each photo shoot. And i didn’t really see the place for an intern.
She was going to school in Indiana and was from Park City but wouldn’t be around until summer.
When school was over she came on a couple of shoots and then I had her come work on pictures… she got better and better and I was ready to make the plunge to let someone take over on the selecting and rating of my pictures.
She only had fridays and saturdays which were often days I was gone out of the state doing weddings but nevertheless I saw her progress a ton and get pretty darn good.
We made her a Blog and a Website
Now she’s back at college and won’t be back until May and then getting married in June here in Utah.
In the meanwhile I now have 3 interns to replace all of her great work.
She saw all my tricks and yet still had me go and do her engagement pictures… i guess that’s a pretty good compliment.
So for the above picture I had to play around and do something different on the edit.
I loved the crazy skies that day… thanks to wendy who came to assist on the shoot…
(the new intern assisting on the shoot for the old intern… i love it)
I had this one edited a little more regular… but I figured she wouldn’t mind another copy with a version more dynamic
Doing a virtual copy is a great thing in my opinion a lot of the times you can spend a while making a crazy looking pic and yet what they really wanted was a normal-er looking one. Let them see both… plus that lets them see the work you put into it… it didn’t just come out of the camera like that.
It was fun shooting with another photographer friend David Terry who Carissa asked to come along.
He was able to pose them a lot of the time and I would just steal the shots haha…
On the other hand I posed a bunch of them and I’m sure David enjoyed that.
The sky looked great that day and the old barn that carissa picked out was awesome.
Still don’t know if I like the phone post or not.
I love when people pick their own spots…
- they’re more special to them (emotional connection)
- I usually get to shoot somewhere new (add to repertoire)
- My creative juices come out more when it’s somewhere brand new
- If it doesn’t work it wasn’t my fault… haha
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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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I’ll attempt to show off these pictures while talking about the locations.
Just stop on some plain road with a bunch of high weeds and make it happen.
I got the camera down low as you can see.
But seriously we were driving to Park City Utah and I just stopped and pulled off the highway.
For like 10 minutes is all.
Wasn’t in the original plans to shoot this spot, but when the sun hits something just right, it can supercede the previous plans.
This is right next to the cool barn that we had gone there to shoot.
So they really liked the egyptian theatre, but when I saw it, it looked really hard to photograph and a bit boring and the street was so close and people walking by.
This one definately needed to be edted to make it look a bit more moody and fit what the theatre was all about.
Take note of that crazy moose behind them
This was at the theatre… I did like the doors. But to avoid reflections and to make the scene more interesting I put them down on the ground
To view the entire gallery go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8754786_ETxbM
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These two got engaged at this park which is next to Bridal Veil falls.
Not necisarily this spot exactly, thought that would have been fun to have seen.
At the end of the night we went to vivian park.
It was already a bit late so we just did a few here.
This is probably the first time I’ve taken pictures with bridal veil falls in the picture.
There are only certain parts of the falls I really like, so it’s hard to take pictures of. But at night it becomes a lot easier because all you see is the whiteness of the water on a dark background, haha
To view the full gallery, go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8756698_6iw63
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This was his idea and I was more than happy to oblige… I wonder what the other Hagens out there think of this. Mick?
The field of these flowers were actually pretty small… but we made due and I did my magic to make it look vast.
To view the entire album go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8762206_bMbKE
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