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Sunrise near St George

scott — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:56:26 +0000

I suppose many of you do not realize how much a fan of “Car Photography” I am.

No, not pictures OF cars… but pictures FROM cars.

I find a great satisfaction from taking an awesome picture while being really lazy, and that means taking it while in my car.
Some of my favorite images and favorites of others were taken while in a car.

I’ve turned it into a science… I could go on an on for a couple hours about the finer techniques of “driving photography”

Of course I do consider myself somewhat of a documentive photographer, I’m more concerned with capturing the image and capturing LOTS.
I don’t have a pressing need or desire to come away with the ONE shot… I like lots. (motivated by one of my future projects)

When I travel I’m always wanting to see what’s around the corner… I don’t want to stick around here.

(Above) For this picture I stopped and rolled down the window, because I just couldn’t handle not stopping… the light was too amazing

(BELOW) For the following I didn’t roll down the window… I shot through the window… no… actually it wasn’t clean.
But I couldn’t worry about it, it was clean enough and the site was drawing me in so much I just had to.

So I shot straight through the front window.
In fact I didn’t stop for this one… I suppose I was still going pretty fast, but these pictures were taken at 2.8 pushing the shutter speed to 1/8000th

Here you can even see the outline of my dashboard.

Warning: Do not attempt at home – I am not only experienced at this, I’m a long time veteran and very cautious, and a tad crazy.

I’ll try to do more posts talking about my travel photography and driving photography if people are interested.

This is pretty much all I took pictures of this day… on the road back from San Diego

Snow Formals – Extended Preview

scott — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:54 +0000

Let this be a lesson to never cancel just cuz of weather.
Just be prepared.
Know how to make it work.

It might mean you have to different stuff than on a more normal day.
But that’s how a good photographer and a good photo shoot goes… Roll With The Punches.

This was slated as an 8 hr formals shoot.
I didn’t realize it was a 2 and a half hour drive so it ended up being 6 and a half hours long.
I had several people asking me how in the world we’d be able to go for that long when most times it’s more like 2hrs.
Well I just told them several times to be prepared to work hard too… that’s 6-8hrs of modeling, it’s a two way road.

They were naturals and since they knew and picked how long it would last they never once complained and were totally into it.
What an awesome photo shoot.

By the end her hair was totally wet and nothing like when they started… but we adapted and adjusted just fine.
And we actually all stayed pretty warm.
We had a lot of traveling in between spots… abt 2hrs driving in the car… that was the saving grace.
Being able to warm up from time to time and to reset and find new places with new pictures.

Just cuz it’s snowing doesn’t mean you’re excused from not laying on the ground.
You better have prepared for what you’re wearing to get down and make the shot happen.
If she’s in a wedding dress in 6 inches of snow you can lay down once or twice.

Thank goodness for a lightstand so that the assistant can park the car while you take advantage of the last reminents of twilight.

On the left is a spot he was planning on for a while and very excited about.
On the right is a spot he’s probably past a hundred times and never even noticed… but I saw on the way down and new we’d need to stop there. Both winners!

I took 1400 pictures many reasons
They were really good looking
We shot for so long
I loved the locations
When snow is falling you have to take a bunch to avoid the snowflakes showing up in bad spots like in front of their eyes.

But the picture above was in the first minute of shooting and is amongst my favorites.

They did a great job at expressing emotions in their pictures… and that’s something you can’t really pose.

Backlighting… my new play around thing.

There’s tons more pictures from the day as you can guess check out a small highlights gallery here
View the rest of the blog post to see more too.

i’ll be editing a couple hundred more for them when I get back from my travels.
If there’s interest I’ll share more.

On the right is outside of his house. I sometimes worry if they think I’m crazy where I choose to put them.
Whether they think… why in the world are we doing our photos in my own front yard. haha

We found a place where we could be out of the snow for a little while and show off those shoes.

Can’t really put a finger on why I like this one so much.
And it’s more than the flare.

Figuring it’d be hard to fill 6hrs of shooting, well we ran out of time.
They were so good with pictures, so good looking and so many great spots we could have kept going.

But now we all suffer the consequences… Which pictures are they going to print and use for their reception.
That’ll be tough on them I suppose.

I’ve been using my car headlights for light on the last couple of shoots.
Now I need a good big difuser so that it’s not so pointed or strong.

When you think of something get it done then.
The plan was to do the thank you at the temple… well that was my thinking.
But I thought to myself when they mentioned the sign… might as well get it done then so that way if something happens and we can’t do it at the temple at least it will be done.
And well… that happened and this was the only spot we got them done… and they all turned out great and a lot of fun. (This is just one example)

He had the hat on just to stay warm, and these were meant as pictures to test out the location before we had the bride get out of the warm car.
But each person that has seen it has commented on how much they like the pictures of him with the cap on.

I love going through the pictures and seeing things I hadn’t even planned… like the reflection of the two of them kissing in the glass.

Getting the camera to focus is hard when it’s this dark.
Plus it was snowing so much I couldn’t hardly look through the viewfinder it was so wet.
I aimed for the edges of their head and hope it got them in focus.

Then one time I shot so fast the flash didn’t go off… Silhouette that’d be cool. Tadah!!

Me finish editing! That’s unpossible!

scott — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:31:14 +0000

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.

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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.

I’m getting more into twilight shoots. Too bad right around the time when twilight is pretty darn cold.
But it is at around 5:30pm so it helps those who can’t get off work earlier.

Melissa & Jordan

scott — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:09:44 +0000

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Engagements : Gardner Village

scott — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:14:51 +0000

Winter Engagements – Provo Canyon

scott — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:01:05 +0000

On new years eve day morning we went up the canyon to take some pictures.
Just remember to wear some good shoes and you should be fine

We did the Aspen Grove area and then went down to Vivian Park

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Wild Horses

scott — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:34:25 +0000

Not to far where I always stop to get pictures of Wild Burrows i came accross a once in a while occurance.

WILD HORSES

I’ve driven that strip and many others have as well… and they’ve never seen them.
They’re always there… it’s just a huge wide expanse of nothingness so they don’t cross the road all that often i bet.

Good thing the camera was on the seat next to me because I slammed on the brakes and tried to fire off as many as i could.

They aren’t as sharp as I’d like… but they happened so it’s a happy day!

Aren’t the painted ones the coolest ones? I should have really focused on them… but it all went by so fast that i wasn’t really paying attention i was just clicking.

Blissful rain SNOW or shine!

scott — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:24:23 +0000

They were set on being happy no matter if it were 80 degrees and sunny or 30 degrees and snowy.
They could find the silver lining and there was no stopping them being exesively happy!
And why not they were meant for eachother and… heck they had the two best photographers this side of the solar system!!

Just putting up a little teaser of what promises to be many hundreds of pictures.

We did get them out of the snow for a few shots.

Nauvoo Temple

scott — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:21:52 +0000

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

Fall in Park City

scott — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:30:39 +0000

Finished up a photo shoot at the Canyons and was heading home and decided to take advantage of the first fallen snow of the year (a light dusting) and the unique light that was shining through on the fall colors.

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Pic-nic on a Frozen Lake : Sam & Liz

scott — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:03:57 +0000

This is totally for real.
A 5 minute walk out on the lake on a nice sunny day with nothing but white surrounding us.

Pretty crazy stuff.
I’ve been wanting to do pictures on a frozen lake for a while.

It was worth the wait.
And thanks to my new D300 camera it handled the exessive amounts of White very well.

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Sasser Wedding – Utah

scott — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:21:37 +0000

Julie and Christopher got married on a snowy day In Provo

For a part of the pictures snow was coming down pretty hard
Julie was tough and stuck through some rough weather as we rushed through some cool pictures…
In the end they turned out awesome and unique as a result.

It was a fun day and things worked out well.

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Here’s some of them having fun in the snow storm

The end of the day was very calm weather

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Krystal & Adam

scott — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:30:28 +0000

Adam& Krystal

It was a cold snowy day but we got done things pretty fast and kept all our limbs in-tact.

They had an Open house in the Logan area and a reception in Provo

There are plenty of pictures in Full Color
However I enjoyed most of the pictures in B&W and DuoTones

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