Archive for October, 2011

This tutorial was a great help for me when shooting reflective bottles. I really appreciated the step by step process and practical advice of what he does to correct for something when it becomes an issue, like when he uses the vellum to help diffuse his side lights. I feel like that kind of approach, rather than just showing the final lighting set-up, is really helpful for giving aspiring studio photographers a set of tools they can use rather than a pre-set lighting set-up that can only be used for one specific kind of shot.

http://www.learnmyshot.com/How+to+Photograph+Wine+Bottles+on+White+Background

Kelsi is a great friend of mine and a recent ACU graduate who recently traveled to Ethiopia as part of the “Light My World Workshop” with Ester Havens and Austin Mann. Their main focus is humanitarian photojournalism, to capture the society and humanitarian efforts of churches in third world countries. Here is a sample of some of the great photos she was able to capture durring her amazing journey. Take a look!

 http://kelsiwilliamson.wordpress.com/

I recently just read a tweet from Jeff Rodgers about his photographer friend, Sara Kerens. I don’t know her story or hardly anything about her, but her photography is pretty great. She has seemed to have dabbled in just about everything,whether its lifestyle photography or fashion photography. Here is a link to her website and blog, I hope you find her work inspiring like I did.

http://sarakerensphotography.com/#1

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This Photographer has really impacted the way that I try and shoot my portraits. The grunginess and melancholy feel of all them draws me into the photos. In this project she went around the world and photographed different local skaters. All the subjects are not local and they signed up to be photographed. These shots represent the skateboarding community and it is very interesting to see how much in common skaters around the world have. View her work here.

Tressie and Chad Zellner are two of the best portrait and lifestyle/wedding photographers I have ever seen! Best of all there are based right here in Abilene and are both ACU alumnus. I’ve had the privilege to be great friends with them and able to share their work.  I love their use of color, composition as well as great creative expressions and framing. They work great as a team and are ranked up there in the wedding world. Check em out.

http://www.twopairblog.com/

http://twopairphotography.com/

This photographer, Mary Garvin, went to ACU for her freshmen year (Fall of 2009) before she went full time as a photographer. She now lives in New York City and travels all over the country taking fantastic shots, and she’s just 20 years old!! I met her in Nelson Hall. I love how she uses interesting and unnatural colors and very “unstaged” poses to come across playful, and yet there’s a quiet calm and vintage feel to her pictures that i absolutely love!! Ever since I met her, she’s been my inspiration for my personal photography, especially when i do senior portraits!

to see more of her photos, check out her blog at http://www.heritagephotobox.com/

Here is kind of a local photographer from San Antonio who has a lot of great portrait stuff. (even of Edmund “Clyde” Gates) His style reminds me a lot of commercial / editorial portrait photography. Although, he does quite a few artistic portraits with his models. Great stuff.

http://davidteran.com/main.php#/Portfolio/Main/21/

Jeremy Cowart is a commercial photographer based in Nashville. His education was in art and design (graphic design), but after trying to launch a career as album designer, soon he realized his passion (and talent) was in photography. One can definitely observe how all of that has informed him as photographer.

Below is an interesting video, showing a little bit of the process behind one of his (for pure fun) project:

James Dimmock