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Archive for the ‘Photoshoot’ Category
July 17th, 2010
Birches is a pop folk rock band out from Kalamazoo, though all the members of the band are originally from Traverse City. I’ve been pretty good friends with these guys for a while now, so when they asked me to take some pictures for their show in Traverse City, I was happy to help. They are, by far, my favorite local band in Kalamazoo, and have an awesome and unique sound to each and every one of their songs. I’d highly recommend you check them out if you get the opportunity. Anyway, here are some quick shots from their show on July 4th at the Sound it Out Record Shop –
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July 1st, 2010
I was recently contacted by the City of Portage Senior Center about possibly doing some event photography for their upcoming talent show. Though event photography isn’t exactly my forte, I was interested to at least see what the city of Portage had to offer in terms of all the talent out there, so I quickly accepted the offer. Unfortunately, I was unable to make it to the finals show, but I did get to check out every act in the first two nights. Talk about impressive! I had no idea there was so many amazing and interesting talents in the area. Anything from song and dance, to a man playing ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ on a saw, talent showed up from all over the Portage and Kalamazoo area, in an attempt to show off there unique abilities and hopefully win a cash prize.
June 29th, 2010
Recently, Laura Alexander and I teamed up and setup an group shoot with a bunch of local models around Michigan at the Holland, MI public beach. After weeks of planning, the day came last Friday, on the 25th, and turned out to be a huge success. The stress was surprisingly low, sky surprisingly clear, and the beach surprisingly full. We were able to work with some of the best modeling talent in the state of MI, and were able to create some amazing images in the process. I still have a bunch of editing to do, but I do have some of my pictures available now, and I wanted to show you some of my more recent work.
Here are some of my favorites from the day-
And check out some of the awesome work Laura was able to produce!
June 15th, 2010
I recently had the pleasure of meeting a local model named Ashley Williamson. We originally had set up to do a rain shoot, and naturally, just seconds after planning that shoot in the morning, it stopped raining. So calls were made, and we waited it out. The weather channel said it’d rain by 3pm, then rain by 5pm, and eventually decided that it wasn’t going to rain at all. I had already gotten the desire to shoot, and didn’t have anything else planned for the rest of the day, so we decided last minute to contribute to the Apocalypse series I’ve been working on.
I was able to find a location of an abandoned paper mill from my friend and part time assistant Adam. We arrived, found an abandoned bank, and started shooting. I wanted to go a different direction with this shoot, and think I did a pretty good job with it. Instead of inspiring intensity, I wanted something a little more dramatic. So I got her to cry, with the help of some eyedrops ofcourse.
Pictures of the finals and alternative edits after the jump after the jump.
June 6th, 2010
I was recently able to shoot with local model Christina Andres for my apocalypse series that I’ve been working on. The first shoot, as you may recall, was with the wonderful Noel, and was setup with an AR15 in studio and a background composted into the image from a 50% gray background. Well this shoot was shot on location, and then was a composite into a new background after wards. This was among the most tedious work I’ve ever had to do in photoshop for an image. I ended up with 8 different edits of the image, and finally could put it to rest after 6 hours of photoshop time. Final images after the jump.
May 16th, 2010
A month or so back, I was able to shoot yet again with one of my favorite models, Noel. I had discussed with her that I really want to test my photoshop skills, and composite an image into a whole other scene. We came up with an idea to make it just shine with intensity, and was able to find someone local with an assault rifle to use (Many thanks to Ty for the use of his gun by the way). The shoot started with me throwing dirt in her face, and ended with me spending a few hours infront of the computer editing the photos. Because of the time, we only used one of the images that we shot that day, even though we shot for well over an hour. Anyway, my assistant, Adam, decided to film the whole thing, and I finally got it edited a little bit and up on the web. Sorry for the low quality, next time we’ll know better and only film landscape.
Video after the jump
April 23rd, 2010
The other day I was able to shoot with my favorite model and friend, Jillian. We didn’t really have a planned shoot set up, we both just wanted to do something to update our portfolios. Literally, 50 feet from my apartment is a nice grassy knoll that I’ve known for some time could make for a perfect photo scene. Since we didn’t have much planned, and were kind of going with the flow on the entire shoot, I figured this spot would make for a great location (Plus, if I forgot to bring anything, I just have to run up the stairs (Which I did have to do twice)).
Here are a few of the shots we were able to come up with-
