One of the reasons clients love me is because I like to have FUN! From looking at my work, it’s my hopes that you will see that I’m VERY passionate about our art, but that I like to have FUN! I see so many guys who are obsessed with getting the “perfect” image, that I don’t think they have fun. My Grandma said “Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day again in your life” Grandmas are always right! So before I start with the client pics, I go through and clean up some of the in between photos-the photos that are them being silly or laughing at me. I will share them with you!
Archives
On a LOT of the photography forums, the “Elders” or more “Respected” members, are often people who have THOUSANDS of posts but when you look to see what kind, you quickly find they have ZERO threads started sharing their work, and thousands of posts critiquing.
In case you didn’t know, there is a huge difference between a tearsheet and internet publications.
As we all know, internet publications means a lot more today, then they ever have, however, currently, an internet publication isn’t quite considered a tear sheet. I was speaking with a young lady who was featured on a night club flyer that was distributed digitally via facebook. She told me “I’ve been featured in 10 tearsheets I’m more than on my way” After discussing where, I had to educate her that a tear sheet is something you can…tear out. She disagreed, strongly and I understood her stance and didn’t want to argue, but wanted to educate you all to the difference! Here’s a few examples of tear sheets
As you know, my server was wiped out totally leaving me only with updates from the last time I backed up my server.
I was just put in contact with ALL my archive posts so I will spend the rest of this week going through and re-posting the good ones. These should bring us up to date and current and starting with next week I will be back to posting new stuff.
If you visit my Facebook, you will notice I have thousands of friends. As with my real life, majority of my friends are females. When I look at facebook updates, I’m looking for photo updates and those I want to shoot next. Often times, I see posts where women are saying men are totally responsible for making women “starve” themselves as that’s all that’s in the magazines. I’ve often found this funny and by the end of this blog post, you’ll understand and possibly find it funny as well.
As you can see, for the time being we are rocking the year old layout and categories. You will notice that this is the second update for 2012. Hurricane Sandy wiped out my former server companies facility. I didn’t have a current local backup of my sites as they back up every night at midnight. I was under the auspice that knowing in advance a HURRICANE was coming, the server company would make working backups of all client files and temporary host them or have them ready to be hosted on backup hardware in a different state. This wasn’t the case. As was explained to me by the owner, they had their backup servers located in the SAME ROOM as the prime servers and as a result the storm took out the primary server and the flooding took out the overnight backup. Why someone would have a data storage company ground floor and below is beyond me, but this is not my specialty.
As you have noticed, my blog and site has been down since Tuesday past. My server was hosted in NYC and as a result, Hurricane Sandy wiped out the data center. My former server company didn’t have a back up so as a result, I’ve lost the last year’s worth of blogging. Well over a year and half of updates, info, knowledge and sharing is gone. Now I can sit here and be bitter or I can move on and continue with bigger and better. I’ve chosen the latter…after doing a lot of the former. To be totally honest, I’d been contemplating what I was going to do with the site, turn it into a photo portfolio site? remove the nudes from this site all together? I’m still not entirely sure but I invite you to help me recreate the awesomeness that was this blog previously.
This is Danielle. Her late name is D so I call her (Behind her back of course) DD. She has GREEN eyes so I also call her “You’re a TIGER!” and again, behind her back.
I enjoy shooting her because she’s down for whatever. MUST love a client who has an idea and allows you to run with it. I’m posing up a few boards and a few single images.
I’m going to update again with more of her. I can’t believe this is my first time putting her on the site!
Brandi came to me for photos for her portfolio. She hadn’t had a real session before, so was interested in getting some photos done. I had a special going on and it was the perfect match. The photos that I had saw of her, she looked like she was a ton of fun to chill with and I’m happy to say that when I met her in person, she was no different! She’s about 5’0″ tall and mother of three kids! I think she’s stunning and had a TON of fun shooting her!
I get all kinds of comments regarding my work, the big one, is that I do a LOT of work to my images in post. Nope, sorry kids not me! I will say that I edit the photos the way I see them in my head at time of shooting, but no, I don’t spend a lot of time editing my photos. Many people talk about “Shoot it right in camera” and lots of times, that’s not possible. I don’t feel photoshop should be your crutch, but a tool to enhance what is already there. Before I share some of my RAW images, I want to talk about “Getting it right in camera” You should shoot to eliminate all bad things, but you should also shoot with post processing in mind too.