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Meredith and Blake got married last week at the Squantum Association in East Providence, RI. They’re a great couple. And this wedding, barring the 95 degree heat, was amazing.
Lots of great opportunities to do some photos outside. And the sunsets at this place are incredible, as you can see above. At the very bottom of the post is the setup shot for the portrait up top and this was the same setup for the vertical images directly above it. That’s my second shooter, Jason. He’s holding a SB-800 with a shoot-thru umbrella on the end of light stand and pointing it at Meredith. There’s also a SB-800 in a small softbox laying on the train tracks and pointed up at Blake.
The small size of the softbox keeps that light from getting too soft or too big, and the lovely bride gets the nice big soft light. But I had Jason hold it almost above her pointed down and away so the light falloff would be where I wanted it and not blow out the bottom of the wedding dress.
Basically, I would not have been able to get these shots without my second photographer / assistant, Jason. So thanks to him, and a heads up to all you potential brides out there. It’s a little extra for a second shooter, but in my opinion totally worth it.
All the photos on the tracks used this setup, even though Meredith was standing for the three final images. She bent down to give her new husband a kiss while I pulled back to get the setup shot… don’t worry, the kiss was captured too!
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This is Mady. She’s a ballet dancer for Festival Ballet Providence. She wanted some shots done for herself, and I’ve been wanting to work with a ballet dancer for a long time… so it worked out.
We have plans to do some more, possibly some stuff inside the dance studio that shows off a little more movement. These were mostly poses up on pointe, which I can’t imagine what that does to your toes. Stay tuned for more.
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If you’re a regular reader of this blog you know I do a lot of personal projects. These projects are done for no reason other than to shoot ideas that I have that I like. It’s nice to do some shooting for yourself every once in a while when normally all you do is shoot for other people.
This summer I’ve been working with some great people to create a series of portraits. These are portraits are all taken around dusk and at night.
A few people have probably heard me describe this project in a few different ways.
I came up with the idea based on a lighting concept. All these photos are shot using two hard lights… hard meaning not soft, or diffuse. And the angles of light are very edgy… meaning a lot of times I just skim the subject with a very narrow beam of light.
So what’s that mean to anyone that doesn’t know a whole lot about photography and lighting? Well, light evokes a great deal of emotions in people whether they know it or not, it absolutely affects your mood on a day to day basis. That’s where this portrait project came from. The look and mood of this lighting design reminded me of summer nights. The way people look in dim moonlight, or being skimmed with a small beam of an overhead streetlight.
So there you have it, a project was born. I’ll be working on it all summer and hope to mix in a lot of different people and environments. But for now, here’s a sneak peek with the first three models I’ve worked with. Enjoy.
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Doing a little portfolio shooting this week. Worked with a few great models, Brendan and Vanessa. Started by shooting a few concepts that have been floating around my head for a while. We shot at Black Point in Narragansett, RI.
We did a lot of glamour/fashion type stuff at first, and then the shoot started trending towards more lifestyle type imagery… But then the models got dirty sitting in that tide pool so they had to wash off in the ocean and it turned into a bit of a glamour shoot again.
For the techies… Flashes were used in all these photos. The shaving shot had soft light on Vanessa (umbrella), and a hard light on Brendan (grid). The martini shot was two hard lights, one frontal and one to the side. All the individual portraits are two hard lights… a snoot coming in from high camera right and a gridded flash from waist level camera left. Oh, and the lifestyle tide pool shots were also one soft frontal and a hard side light to give the images some pop.
Hope you like ‘em!
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A little over a week ago I had the pleasure of temporarily working for Entertainment Television, better known as E!.
More specifically, one of their subsidiary stations, The Style Network.
More specifically than that, the show “Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?”.
You can read about the show, watch clips, and keep up with the summer schedule by clicking here.
They were shooting a show in Rhode Island at the Providence Biltmore Hotel and I was lucky enough to photograph it. It was my first wedding working with a 15 person film crew. It was both awesome and stressful at the same time.
Basically the show selects a couple and usually keeps one or two people in the loop throughout the wedding plans, but in this case, the bride was not one of those people. She had no idea she was getting married until 4 days before when they completely surprised her! I know, sounds crazy, but for all you brides out there, I think you’d get over it when they say “oh and by the way, everything is now free”.
And not just free… totally upgraded. This couple was going to have a $25,000 wedding, but instead they get a $150,000 wedding, an awesome experience, and it’s all captured on film!
I treated the photography for the day like any other wedding, except I had to make sure I wasn’t getting in the way of any important shots for the show, and I had to avoid getting any cameramen or sound guys in my shots… which as you can see from the photo below, was almost impossible for wide angle shots.
But overall an awesome experience. I guess I’ve got style after all. The show will air sometime late this summer. I’ll be getting an exact date from the producer sometime within the next few weeks and I’ll update with another post. Until next time…
Not a great photo, but you can see all three cameramen and a couple of sound guys in this one:
The cake and table settings:
The bride and her flowers:
All the flowers:
The director having a little fun with a stressed out bride:
The lovely couple:
And the couple with their director:
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Roba Dolce is a Providence, Rhode Island based company that creates homemade-style authentic Italian gelato and sorbeto. They started with two small gelatorias and received an overwhelming response for their delicious frozen dessert. Meaning “sweet stuff” in Italian, Roba Dolce started packaging their product and selling it to the masses.
Recently they’ve been growing even bigger and are set to release newly designed packaging, brand new flavors, and expand their market nationally. That’s where gsp studios comes in. They hired me to photograph some fruit, some gelato, some packages… and everything edible was most certainly eaten. After it was photographed of course.
I thought I’d share a few photos from the shoot. Above are some editorial-style photos that will probably get slapped with their logo and published in some food magazines around the country. They’re intended to put you a gelato-craving trance.
The ones below are of their new packaging… some new designs, new sizes, etc. So start looking for these in stores starting in the next week or so. These will be used on their website, trade magazines, and internal publications, like the company’s annual report.
Hope I made you hungry. Enjoy!
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The lovely couple pictured above and below is Jenna & Bill. They’re getting married this October in Newport. But before that we roamed around Narragansett, Rhode Island on an engagement portrait session.
For those of you unaware of what an engagement portrait session is or why you would ever want/need one, let me educate you:
What it is… a very informal portrait session with an engaged couple and their future wedding photographer, usually in a very picturesque location of the couple’s choosing.
Why you want/need one… not only does it help you get to know your photographer and become a bit more comfortable with them before you’re all thrown into the hectic wedding day, you can also use these photos for newspaper announcements, for “save the date” invitations, even have the photos turned into prints or albums to give as gifts. What’s becoming increasingly popular is having a matted print or photo book with blank pages act as the guest sign-in during the wedding reception. The possibilities are pretty much endless. And if nothing else, in the end, you’ve got some great pictures of yourselves as a couple.
I usually like to have the engagement session in an opposite type of location from where the wedding is going to be… just for some diversity. For example, if you’re getting married by the beach, having the engagement session in the city can give all the images a different look from your future wedding. Some people just love the outdoors, the country, the beach, or the city and like to give their photos some uniformity. To each his own. I just show up and take the pictures! Enjoy.
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What do you get when you combine an amazing sunrise with a fantastic model capable of doing the things you see above and below? Well, you get these images. I feel like I was just pointing and shooting out there… anyone could have made beautiful photos that day.
These images aren’t “for” anything. Just a desire to wake up at 4AM and add a new dimension to my portfolio. So I hope you think it was worth it.
I’ve worked with Monica in the past and we always tend to create some very powerful images together.
All these photos were created with two lights… the sun, and a Nikon SB-800 into a shoot-through umbrella. That’s another reason I like shooting at sunrise, aside from the amazing color, low angle of light, and misty fog in the distance… the sun isn’t too strong yet and you can overpower it with a wimpy little speedlight. Amazing.
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These are a couple of head shots I did for Arch Creative Group, a web design firm in Boston. The one below is the owner of the company and the one above is one of his clients, a savvy investment banker.
These days, if you don’t look professional, you’re not viewed as a professional. That doesn’t just mean wearing a suit to the office anymore, it means having an image that looks like it wasn’t created by a kindergartner. A website is like the front cover of that image, it needs to have good graphics, photos, etc. Being simple and easy to navigate also helps.
If there’s too much chaos on a site that I click to, I often click off instantly… I’m not hanging around long enough to see that maybe this site has exactly what I’m looking for. Same thing with photos and graphics, if a site doesn’t have good ones, I can’t respect that company. We’re so influenced visually as a culture and getting good photography is such a simple thing to do nowadays that I don’t think there is any excuse for not having photos with some impact.
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For the past couple of months I’ve been working with Studio Dunn to help them launch their first ever line of hand-crafted, all natural wood furniture. I’ve had to keep a lid on these images for a while until they had a chance to finish up a few more things on the business side, and I admit, it was a bit difficult. Most of these images were taken in February and March and as you can see, some are outdoors, and it was freezing and almost always around sunrise. So after all I went through to get these shots, I wanted to show them off a bit.
The concept was to provide each piece of furniture with a “glamour shot” and standard product shots. With the pieces being made of natural materials (wood), we decided why not set them up in natural environments. Sure beats those boring shots with the furniture indoors somewhere. These pieces also have a very elegant, natural design and smooth curves… it seemed like a no-brainer to bring them into nature.
So here’s a few of the final images as they’ll appear on catalog cards, a few product shots, some of my favorites that ended up on the cutting room floor, and some behind-the-scenes shots.
The catalog cards, and everything else for that matter, were designed by Lizzy Green. You can see her work here. Lots of great stuff.
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