I know it's been a while, but I've been spending most of my time posting stuff over on the blog for Joshua & Co. Photography the last few months.
In any case, here's a gallery from a recent engagement session with Jackie and Evan in Boulder. They are going to get married in The Big Easy in May 2012. I'm really looking forward to seeing New Orleans for the first time in my life. Should be fun and interesting, to say the least.
Since the last post was delayed by a month, I'll add another one to the mix.
I've been doing all kinds of things with a still camera lately, but one of the more important ways has been family photographs. Most families are looking to get a great photo of their immediate family to share with other family members and friends for the holidays.
Well, the weather in the Denver Metro area hasn't really even threatened to be winter-like. It's the middle of December and I have yet to see even a skiff of snow around here. The mountains have been getting hammered, but we've just been getting blown around. All that being said, not having much of the white stuff on the ground doesn't make for too many "holiday moments," if you know what I mean. Dead brown grasses and leafless trees don't scream out winter wonderland and Santa. So it's been a bit of a challenge to shoot photos in a nice setting. But the fall colors were fantastic this year, holding out for several weeks and offering up some great backgrounds.
Have a look at these, and if you or someone you know is still scrambling to get some photos together for their holiday cards, let me know. I'm pretty sure we can make something good happen.
UPDATE 12-14-2010: How bad is this, I never hit the publish button when I built this post a month ago. You'd think I've never done this blogging thing before.
Ran up to Glenwood Springs, Colo., last weekend to shoot some engagement photos of a couple that will be getting married next June. The challenge was that the fall colors had fallen off the trees and the white blanket of winter has not yet arrived, so finding interesting backgrounds for a couple that is very active in the outdoors was a bit of a hurdle. Luckily happy couple, Audrey and Chad, made it easy on me. All they did was play around Grizzly Creek in Glenwood Canyon and in an alley in town and I just had to try and stay dry while making simple frames.
The happy couple liked what we were able to capture and now they are on to ironing out the many details to come for their day next summer. Now I just have to make sure that CF card I dunked in the creek has dried out...
We (Joshua & Co. Photography) were downtown this weekend to shoot a wedding at the Curtis Hotel. I was a little stressed when first hearing about some of the challenging lighting conditions – candlelit ceremony and an all blue ballroom – along with logistical issues in getting the wedding party around downtown before the wedding.
All those worries were quickly erased from my mind after embracing it all and playing around with what the situation presented. A little mishap ripping the crotch of my pants climbing up on a pickup truck helped lighten the mood, and cool me down. Pictures to come of that debacle later.
After it was all said and done, I look forward to the next "difficult lighting situation" and I really can't wait to shoot just about anything at The Curtis again. Wow, that place is fantastic.
Anyways, here's to the happy newlyweds Maggie and Lou!Thanks for letting us do pretty much whatever we wanted with the cameras.
Shot a series of images for The Laughing Goat coffee house out in Boulder this last weekend. Here's a compilation of some of my favorites from the morning. Gotta love a couple Speedlights and an umbrella. No reason to make things overly hard, when simple is effective.
Too bad I don't drink coffee either. There were several cups that needed a belly to call home and a brain to over-stimulate. Enjoy.
Been working as a photo-tech for a photographer covering the Colorado Avalanche the last couple weeks. I basically complete captions, size images and do minor toning before FTPing them to the world. But I do have about half of the periods to shoot for myself, so I take my gear and do what I can. I've shot a whopping four NHL games now in my career. Needless to say I think I need to keep practicing. In the mean time, here's a few to review.
Had the pleasure to shoot a wedding out in Boulder a couple weeks ago. The weather was cold, snow was on the ground and the clouds were low but that didn't hinder or change plans. The couple decided to go ahead with the outdoor wedding plans. It ended up working out really well photographically, as the alternative was to have the ceremony in a big ugly tent. The light was much better outside.
I'm still waiting to hear if I can post anything else from the wedding that identifies the couple, so for now you get a couple of change ups. Enjoy.
Had to go up to Wyoming to shoot a freelance gig yesterday. Made a couple other frames too for myself and hopefully for the client. We'll see I guess.
Leaving in a couple days for the southern hemisphere, so the blog might be dormant for a few weeks. Depends on connecting to the network while on the trip and if I really want to pull myself away from what we are doing. Until next time....
Experienced a live art/cinema/electronic media performance the other night as an extension of the performers, David Stout and Cory Metcalf, doing a week of visiting and teaching at DU. The performance was held at the Gates Planetarium in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and I made some frames for the DMS program as well as the artists. It is hard to really classify their craft into a containment box. It is an experience.
The production is a creation of generating forms or organisms from data sets of numbers and mathematical equations that in turn generate tones or sounds that are then remapped as the forms remap. The artists do a bit of containment of the organisms in the space by using various control devices and infrared sensors. The title of the group NoiseFold is a bit revealing. The noises are folded into itself as the visuals are folded as well. The result is a one-time creation of evolving organisms or forms on two screens that communicate and at times merge as they develop. The auditory experience was very unique and engaging. Here's a link to a video of a performance.
Shot basketball three days this week. Eight games total and decided that college is much easier to shoot than high school. The game is a bit more scripted and has a sense of flow. High school is a game of chaos and typically in a relatively poorly lit cave.
So here are some of my favorites from the Colorado versus Missouri game that I shot today. CU has lost seven straight games. Ouch! They seem to play well, but fall apart in the second half. Maybe next year, right? Was playing with a 400mm today. And I mean playing considering I left the monopod on my apartment floor. Handholding at a fast paced game like basketball was tricky, but actually a bit easier than with the monopod I think. I also wanted to get away from the standard baseline shooting position. It get's really old down there. The shoulders are paying for it though.
Still working up the images from the seven high school games at Centaurus in Lafayette. If I find some uniques in there I'll add another post. Until next time....
Was asked to photograph a friend's wedding yesterday. It was a bit of challenge to shoot in the small rooms filled with family and friends of the bride and groom, but looking at the images afterward I think I was able to make a few fun and important photos.
Now I just have to find some time to work the rest of them all up. Congrats to Kate and Rod.
Just a quickie of some randomness in topic as well as visuals. Been wrapped up with learning as much as I can in class at DU before the start of the semester at Metro this week. Haven't been using the camera as much as I should, but when I do I always make sure to have some fun with it. With the days getting longer and participating in the shootouts I have with my students I should have a bit more to share.
I'm also looking into how I can post some of the fun visuals I'm creating for my Tech Foundations II class at DU. Some fun things just not sure how to go about embedding them into Blogger yet. Stay tuned.
Shot some game action photos for the Centaurus High School basketball team the other night. It's been tough shooting sports once a month and still get some good frames. Shooting sports is like playing them. Practice to play.
Just set up a single light on a bleacher railing and bounced it off the white ceiling and blue ducts. The ambient light is close to non-existent (f/2.8 @ 1/320 @ ISO 5000) so after a few frames of finding the sweet spots of the light hitting the floor I started to play with some different ideas. Don't know if they work but feel like they are something different from the standard wire sports photos.
