Off Road Vixens in the Studio

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I had Carey and Shari of Off Road Vixens if the studio last week for a photo shoot of thier clothing line of fun and cute tees, tanks tops and sweat shirts. We ended up using the different textures of the studio for backgrounds rather than brave the outdoors. I ended up shooting with a ring light to add to the edgy feel and it really made thing pop with a little bit of surreal. We had five great models, some of which do ride motocross and ATV’s. Jennifer Harvey did a great job on the hair and makeup. Carey did you own styling. All in all, we got some terrific pictures in just a short period of time. Here are some of the previews that will be in a upcoming catalog and will be going up on their website…
 





Ballet and Bubbly – Tech Rehearsal

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I am a new Smugmug.com pro account holder and have been wanting to try out some of the new features. I have been going through and setting up a some different galleries. One of the first galleries are shots taken at tech rehearsal. Tech rehearsal is where the light, music and dance get all put together. -The only thing missing is the costumes for the performance. That come at dress rehearsal. Shooting pictures at tech will give me a better idea where I need to when shooting pictures at the dress rehearsal. There are a lot of images that (and a few duds) that should be seen and sometimes there are some special moments!

Stay tuned for the dress rehearsal!

Picture of the Day | Cheerleader Day

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Here is a quick edit before I head off to home. I had the opportunity to take the Lewis and Clark cheerleaders team and individual pictures this year. I did a last minute trip to Toys R Us and picked up a 3 foot trampoline. I quickly put it together and threw a bunch of gear into my car and headed off to Cliff Park to meet the team. While the idea was there, the lack of shots with hair not in the face and limited time to shoot 14 individuals made it so we had to stop. I did get a few good frames for the website and portfolio. I can’t wait to try this again on a day with less wind and a little bit more time!

Lauren and Griffin Wedding Movie Trailer

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Here is a “just edited clip” I made as I was logging the wedding of Lauren and Griffin from last Saturday video shoot. The Davenport Hotel was as always, a great place to shoot. -Just video this time. Lauren and Griffin were an easy going couple the whole day. They were surrounded with love by a great family and tons of friends. The photography was done by Suwanee Lennon whom I had just met. She was a pleasure to work with. Thank you Lauren and Grffin and the best of luck to you.

This is part 1 and I intend to put up a part 2 in the next day or so.
Wedding_1

Picture of the Week

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I have been a long time user of Red Giant Software in both video and photo editing. They have some great color correction tools as well as the “looks” software that is a great start toward creating unique and interesting images. I recently downloaded the iPhone app “Plastic Bullet” and its become my main camera app for images. I purchased it without reading a review or even reading the description of the of app. I have figured out that the “Plastic” part of the name come from the lens that its tries to replicate and the replicate it does. I found that if you get a good exposure it will lead to a Holga type image that will fool most people in to thinking that you’ve used expired film with all the light leakage of the legendary camera. I posted a bunch of these on facebook already, but if you are not a friend then you have not seen them…

All in all, a really good job getting vintage looks out of plain images and stellar images out of the better iPhone images. I would watch out for over exposed areas around your main subject. They tend to get washed out. Sometimes a cool effect, but other times, they get lost. Let me know what you think of the app in the comments section. Its only $1.99.

Video of the Week

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I’ve spent just about every free waking hour that I have had the last couple of weeks editing down the video for Sandra Olgard’s Studio of Dance spring recital. They did “Ballet to Broadway” this year with numbers from many different musicals including the Lion King, King and I, and just about everything in-between. I pretty much had all the editing down and needed to come up with a title. I remembered the video of the warming up I shot with the DSLR and looked to see if anything turned out. While I was hand holding (my tripod was out front ready to tape the show) a camera that is pretty much a manual focus, there was little bits of video that was not completely shaky. This is what I came up with….
ballet to broadway intro

It’s not perfect… It could be cut tighter, but I figured the parents want to see the rest of the videos after the intro anyway!

Cheers!