Las Vegas Portrait, Beauty, Boudoir and Cultural Photography
Last week I had an Intimate Portraiture photo shoot with the very beautiful and talented Yuli Shumilova. This was our first shoot together and I’m really happy with the work we came away with. It was a simple shoot (my favorite kind). One light, the model and the photographer. You can’t get much simpler than …
Elsa and I have been shooting together for a few years now. Always a lot of fun working with her, and as usual, I love the shots we came away with. One difference this year, we shot on film.
When going out for walks over the past couple of weeks I’ve been making more of a conscious effort to bring a digital camera, when normally it’s a film camera that goes with me. When I’m shooting film, it’s always black and white film. But shooting digital, I have the choice on whether I want …
It’s been a year since I’ve been shooting with film and I wanted to share my thoughts on the whole film experience. Hopefully you’ll find this helpful/useful if you’re thinking about doing some film photography. Fim photographers I referenced in the video: (depending on where you work or your personal preferences, some of the images …
Inspiration. Inspiration is an extremely valuable commodity and I’m always looking for new sources. It’s what fuels what most of us do with our photography, modeling and any art form where you can express yourself. I’ve got a couple items I want to share with you this morning and they both pertain to things that I …
One of the benefits of living in Las Vegas is that within less than an hour’s drive you can be in a photographically rich location that can make you feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere. It’s a beautiful desert countryside with unique shapes and plant life and if you have a camera with …
I’ve been doing a good amount of low light street photography using Fujifilm ACROS 100 film pushed to 400 ISO. I’d go out around twilight and shoot until it got dark. I’ve enjoyed the results from that so much that I was inspired to do a low light photo shoot using ACROS pushed to 400 …
Remember that Twilight Zone episode about the woman who was accidentally locked in a department store overnight. She was the only one in there but soon found out that once all the people who worked in the store had left, the mannequins would come to life. These mannequins had a system in which one would be …
What’s the most important thing about a photograph? The answer to that question can be different for everyone. Maybe composition, technical aspects, lighting, sharpness, etc…? All of those elements play a part in the whole of the image, but they’re just parts, and sometimes not even that important. Emotional Impact or Story For me, what …
