There’s overcast and then there’s White Overcast… where the sky is pure white with no definition to it and it provides no unique or warm glow like some types of cloudy days. So to say it was challenging is correct.
As you can tell I’ve really been loving twilight these days.
I searched around for the area with the most frost on the trees in bountiful.
Some random country road.
We pulled up to the location and it just kinda occurred to me that the car had lots of light power… why not use it.
I know it’s nothing terribly ground breaking but it was the first time for me.
I used the car lights on all the twilight/night pictures.
Stay tuned for the reception and luncheon pictures… I tried a new lighting style that I’ve never done before and they turned awesome.
Written on December 18, 2009 Posted in Photo Meetups
Almost like a yearly tradition to go take pictures of the lights on Temple Square.
For the first little while I was thinking about what I was going to focus on.
Some photowalks I spend most of my time sharing techniques with people asking.
I thought this time around since I had all my stuff I’d focus on taking some really cool pictures.
But turns out I didn’t do much of either.
This time around I really didn’t spend much time taking pictures.
I primarily played around with shooting video.
I did snap out a few pictures in between videos.
And here they are.
The photowalking event was a great.
There were a TON of people.
A bunch of people I haven’t seen in a long while.
And a Ton of people i didn’t even know.
Seems like when it gets colder and all of us don’t have as many photo-shoots these activities get bigger and bigger.
I did miss having Steph and Suzanne there like last year.
And I wish I had been able to keep up with David and Carissa but I was too slow and didn’t really get around too much… we shot a lot on one small area.
But in the end I got a sexy new profile picture for facebook by Antonio
So the real question is… what in the world do I do with the 90 video clips I shot??
I’m really clueless. Isn’t film all about how you intertwine the clips.
Well I don’t want to add that to my plate as well… that’s too much.
I can upload them to smugmug and put them on the blog… but they weren’t really informational… I think.
My blog posts hope to reach the following people in the following ways. (No particular order)
1. The client
By showing them their pictures in a short succinct recap, and giving them a quick method to show their pictures to their friends and family.
2. The clients friends and family.
By offering them a short recap of their friend or family member.
And also provide a link to the full gallery so they can see more if desired
3. Potential clients
By showing them what kind of work I’ve been doing recently.
After 4-5 years I keep on getting better every shoot.
It’s great to see many pictures from one shoot and know that I don’t just take a small handful of good pictures at each shoot. Thus the longer posts
4. Friends and Family
Because they say they like to see what I’m up to.
They like to look at pictures. Or so they say
5. Other photographers
-I think that’s a huge bulk of my audience.
I write many posts of photographers interest only.
Posts with tips and tricks directly mainly to photographers, specially the aspiring and learning types.
I also try to include teaching moments through almost all of my posts.
Like for instance, this post.
Let’s start with the ending. Those are always lots of fun
They got married at the Draper temple.
The reception was at Thanksgiving Point
When we all figured out after like 20 minutes of shooting that they didn’t want to be told what to do, like it seems everyone else expects of me.
We started to really have fun and just do some crazy and fun stuff and I was just there to document it and tell them when something wasn’t working.
For instance on the last two they just posed differently after every shot. Believe it or not they had no idea of what the other was doing.
In the last post we showed some of the regular pictures
In this one I’ll show a series of pictures taken in a 90 second span.
And Normal
This technique involves the following:
Tell them each click they need to do a different face.
They can’t coordinate. (Because it’s funnier that way and it goes faster that way… they’re more spontaneous)
This is a good exercise to loosen them up for the rest of the photoshoot
or a good way to finish up a night on a really fun note.
I’ve got some fancy new toys like new lenses and lighting stuff.
I’m working better with all the people coming to assist.
It’s a lot of work getting each person to know what to do specially when it seems i have to deal with someone new each time.
But i’m getting better at it and showing them their job faster and better.
While still keeping the connection with my clients.
Things are starting to get even busier around here with 3 weddings each week for the next few weeks.
It’s just about the right time to start getting in a groove.
And I think I’m in a groove, taking things to the next level.
I’ve been spending a bit more time on lighting my pictures.
ALSO, after years trying to get faster at editing… I think I’ve slowed down.
Sometimes I’ll edit all the pictures then go back through and see what I missed.
Checking a second time to see how I can improve the pictures.
Yes maybe I don’t have tons of time for it at the moment but i think it will help step up the level for times to come.
The plan is to do Fewer jobs and focus on them a little more.
(Which happens to mean an increase in price, but shhhh don’t tell anyone. haha)
I hope you all have enjoyed what you’ve been seeing these days.
The following set is from the SLC library in case you wanted to know the location.
Finding and working a new location on a whim… Pays off.
Don’t you just love the reflection off of the glass.
The one on the right looks almost fake. For some reason it just came out that way. I did add a bit of vignette.
I admit it’s not the perfect wedding picture, but as a regular kinda modely picture for some reason I love it
Girls love their veil, their ring and romantic moments… so that’s a 3 in 1
Here’s one of the scenes that I was specially proud of from recent trips
It was about 1 degree outside (not counting windchill) and I was heading out of town back to St. Louis that morning.
So like many of the pictures you’ll see in these upcoming posts I wasn’t about to get out of the car. But i set my settings skidded to a stop on the 1 inch of ice on the road and backed up and pulled forward to get the perfect pics
So it was a couple weeks ago that I was in Manti, Utah doing a wedding.
We just finished with the group pictures.
We were a few pictures into the couple shots and they were running a bit late to start with.
I wanted to go up around the building (temple) the other way around and take a picture with the temple in the background.
As soon as we started to go up the hill it started to rain a little. By the time we got up the hill it was too late… the rain started to come down in buckets.
I used my reflector to try to cover them up… but they were still game for one last picture.
Of course it was bound to be awesome! Too bad you can’t see just how much rain was falling.
We were all soaked to the bone.
On the drive back I don’t think I’ve seen rain fall that hard in years.
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