First of all, welcome to my new blog, specifically focusing on my photography. I have had many requests for a website that showcases the results of my photo shoots and finally got around to getting it put together. It is still a work in progress and there is much to be done to make it look more professional. I appreciate your patience as I continue working to improve this site. Below my profile photo and e-mail link, there is a page with RATES. Included on the RATES page are a few FALL 2008 SPECIALS for this year...including a BONUS special for the first 2 families to book shoots before September 1st! Make sure to check out the RATES page for more details. On this blog, are a number of galleries showcasing photos from some of my most recent photo shoots and I am happy to share them with you. Until I am able to design a banner for this blog, I will simply use one of my favorite shots from my most recent photo shoot as the banner.
As my first post here on my photography site, I am happy to share with you a few of my favorite proofs from a photo shoot that I am very likely the most proud of of any up to this date. This recent photo shoot is, I believe, some of my very best work and also a major turning point in my career as a photographer. I was hired for this shoot to take individual and "group" shots of these two brothers as a surprise for their mother who they were visiting soon in South Africa and who had not had professional pictures of her boys since they were little.
The first aspect of this shoot that makes it a turning point and something unique in my portfolio, is the fact that this is my first male portrait session. That was both exciting and very nerve-wracking for me. Because of this, I spent HOURS before the session, doing research on masculine poses and specifically on unique angles that I had never tried before (the very first photo in this post is one of my favorite photos from this shoot and an example of one of the fun new angles that I tried on this shoot. LOVE IT!). Posing male subjects is surprisingly harder than you would think, but I am THRILLED with the results. The time I spent researching definitely paid off.
Thanks to L & R for their patience as I showed up with sketches and notes in hand for this photo shoot. They were such awesome sports and I found out very soon that they needed very little coaching. They made my job incredibly easy. Another result of this photo shoot that was a turning point for my career, was the experience in shooting slightly edgier photos and shots that truly reflected their fun personalities. I also tried out some new and more unique editing actions on this particular shoot. The results were very fun, casual and edgy photos that are so unique and unlike any I have ever done. And when they saw the proofs, they were so excited and loved that the pictures were so "THEM.";-) They were so pleased and couldn't wait to surprise their mom with them. For the first time ever, after seeing the results of this photo shoot, I see a very artistic aspect of my photography and that is SO exciting for me!! These are, in my opinion, some of my very best work.
To see all of the photos from this shoot (which I really hope you want to...they are fantastic, if I do say so myself), feel free to visit the GUYS ONLY! PHOTO ALBUM here on my photography blog.