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)
Schedule is set – Now booking
This should be the best year ever of my free charity shoot… I’m excited get ready to schedule your spot (starting tomorrow/Friday)
If you’re interested please read through the full blog before asking questions, if not simply enjoy the pictures at the end. 
Everyone should be just about this excited for this opportunity!
How to Book a time for the charity shoot?
Booking will officially start tomorrow (Friday)
Send an email to scheduling@jarviedigital.com
see the online calender for openings – Click here and go to OCTOBER 5th through 10th
we are taking pre-bookings for those that participated in my survey last week.
And my interns have a days head-start to invite their friends to the shoots for the days they’re in charge of.
There should be plenty of spots available up to 60 canyon spots and more than enough Studio time.
I will help with scheduling but I am not in charge of scheduling.
If you send the email it will get to the right place… maybe even doing a comment on the post will work… but no guarantee.
To double check you are official make sure your name is on the online calender.
The schedule is now set
Every day mon-friday 10am-1:30pm = Studio shoots in North Lehi
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A “why not” attempt to create the coolest photography house in Utah.
UPDATE: The owner sold the house 2 days before I was to move in… can’t blame him I suppose… it was a great rental price but way overpriced to buy, so good for him if he was able to sell it.
But now I’m looking for a new place… and if possible even another option for another PHOTO HOUSE
So I ran across this house for lease and went to look at it and take some pictures.
It was perfect!
But a little bit too spendy for just me and my lonely self.
So…. I had an idea
Planning
I’ve been talking with the owner about leasing it and then renting out the other 4 bedrooms.
He’s down… now I just need to see the interest for renters.
The coolest photog house and hangout in Utah
A place for photographers to live, eat, breath photography
As a place to live or as a place to have an office/studio
Indoor studios, outdoor locations, rooms to rent, office space, place to live and have photo related events
To live in the house it would probably need to be single folk like myself.
WHERE
It is a very secluded house that happens to be very near Everything
See it up-close on Google Maps
It’s located in Lehi, Utah
2.0 miles from American Fork/Lehi shopping area on state st.
Including countless restaurants, Walmart, Costco, you name it!
All are under 2.5 miles away
2.2 miles from freeway on-ramp to I-15
12 miles to Salt Lake county (Draper, Bangerter hwy)
13.3 miles to University ave in Orem
30 miles to downtown SLC
Very close to tons of photographic locations in Utah county.
(The house comes with a list of all of these locations… haha )
The best indoor lighting possible
There are 20ft+ vaulted ceilings with a wall of big windows
Both of the bottom rows have a built in diffuser because of the style of shades.
And we can set up another room as a dark studio for when it’s not night.
Big studio and Workshop room
I know other photographers do things way different… I know and respect and understand… let me explain my way for a moment or two
My goal is often to mix great art, making someone look good and showing off who someone is.
This of all the pics is Kambria’s smile to me. The real one.
I can be lazy i know this… and most others know this.
OK so I’m a tad lazy sometimes and that’s what leads to a lot of this style.
I know how to do a bunch of things with lighting… but i don’t often do it.
I stick to easy lighting situations and simple techniques.
But there’s a reason…
thing is my style doesn’t really allow for some of this fancy stuff.
It’s a whole experience being around me… I usually want happy faces and good experiences.
Or for them to feel like they can be creative.
I set up the shot… i picked the background… i got the camera set. But she did the moves.
I told her “look here”… or “look to your right” – she picked the rest… and i thought she did good. And since she did it herself… it’s much more likely to be something that is who she is.
My style??
Well I’d like to think that what I offer is a very fluid interaction and that people so often feel very very comfortable around me.
Even those that aren’t into pictures… they become into it. Or at least have a non-painful time.
My style is bringing out their style…. facilitating their ability to come up with ideas and make them their own.
This leads to more pictures.
Sure i could pose them and put their head and hands right in the perfect spot… but each time i do that we just lost 10 more pictures… at least.
Sure I personally have a distinct way of shooting and a look to my pictures… and I have poses that i fall back on. But each time they get to put a flare on those… as i get to put my own flare on concepts I’ve done before.
Quantity
So, i suppose i go for the quantity approach.
People love that i take lots of pictures in so many styles and views.
They certainly get their bang for their buck when they walk away with 100+ good pictures of themselves.
And it also increases the odds of ones they absolutely love.
See the thing is we might have an idea in our mind and work super hard to make that spot and that lighting perfect. But it doesn’t always assure that is what the client loves the most.
So often they love the moment. They love their expression, they love the memories associated with that moment. Or perhaps they just like another spot a bit more. They might prefer a picture of a lesser quality than the one you made look imaculate. And it just takes exploring and playing around to find that spot.
It’s so interesting to see what someone likes in the end and finding out why they like it.
This girl loved these little piglets… she’s going to love these series of pictures.
I know i don’t post everything i do… actually far from it.
But I liked a few of these enough and had some time and felt motivated.
So here I go
To see like 100 more pictures of the same 1 block radius of Lehi go to the full gallery online
This was done in Lehi.
I was first told of the location by one of my favorite fellow photographers Suzanne
I took pictures of a couple at Thanksgiving Point on Monday.
When the couple I was taking pictures of left to go to a surprise party I stayed with the golf cart and drove around the gardens taking copious amounts of pictures.
And I have made a gallery.
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