Ashlan’s Senior Photos (Sandpoint Photographer)
This week I had a great senior photo session in Sandpoint with Ashlan, here are some of the final images from the evening.
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Jason & Erin’s Engagement
The day of my engagement shoot with Jason and Erin turned out about as perfect as it could be. The weather was great the whole time and the last hour of our time together the natural light was amazing. We started out in downtown Sandpoint, starting in the one and only alley that the town has to offer and then finished up our time down by the lake. We had a great time and I can hardly wait for their July wedding!
Jeremy’s Senior Photos (Priest River Photographer)
I have a lot of fun working with Jeremy on his Senior photos, we had a beautiful Mercury Cougar to use for the photos and then took an ATV ride to a location overlooking the the Pend Orielle River.
Priest River’s 2012 Distinguished Young Women
The 2012 Distinguished Young Women program in Priest River featured 10 talented young ladies, all of which did a great job. When the event was completed and the judges votes were tabulated it was Melissa Trost that was announced as this year’s winner with Steffie Pavey coming in as the runner up. Here are a few photos from the event, for the entire gallery and to order prints please visit my website at this link: http://bit.ly/InksRr
Megan’s Senior Photos – (Sandpoint Photographer)
Recently I worked with Megan to create her Senior Portraits, we started at her home and them took a trip to Garfield Bay to finish up our session.
In Megan’s back yard stands the playhouse that was build by her father when she was little, unfortunately it was used very little ever since the discovery of a spider inside many years ago. We braved the risk of spiders and I set up a flash inside the small building as well as one outside aimed through the window. Since the building as well as it’s furnishings were now very small compared to the now adult sized Megan I kept thinking of Alice in Wonderland growing too large for the house she found herself in. The cards hanging on the wall, minus the Queen of Hearts, seemed quite fitting!
KCC Class of 2012 (Sandpoint Photographer)
The class of 2012 from my church, Kootenai Community Church, will be having a special graduation ceremony in June and they needed a photo of the group for the invitations. Being spring in North Idaho scheduling a photo shoot with just one person can be hard, add in the often conflicting schedules of 5 busy seniors and you can imagine how hard it might be. We ended up rescheduling our shoot due to weather or illness at least half a dozen times, but then by what some people would call luck and others providence we had a short break in the rain on a Sunday afternoon and we were able to finally get our photographs. Here are a few from the afternoon.
Ginger Knits Fiber Studio (Sandpoint Photographer)
Ginger Knits Fiber Studio is working toward launching their website and today I had an opportunity to work with some adorable models as we did a few product shots. If these don’t put a smile on your face I think you should seriously think about talking to a medical professional!
Ginger Knits Purple Alpaca Cowl
Ginger Knits Aviator Hat
Ginger Knits Pirate Beard
Ginger Knits Sock Monkey Slippers
Bribing Teenagers (Sandpoint Photographer)
Yesterday I worked with Tim on his senior photos, the second location that we went to was almost perfect, the only problem was that we were not there first. As you can see in these two test shots a few Teens had claim to the spot that I wanted to use as a backdrop.
As you can see having them in the background does distract a bit from Tim so I thought maybe I might be able to bribe them into vacating their location for a few minutes while I captured some images. Of course they all have Facebook accounts so I offered to take their portrait for them to use on Facebook. Here is the payment of my debt to these five teens that were so gracious.
Kelsey Bradbury – Class of 2013 (Priest River Photographer)
This last Saturday I spent a good part of the day with Kelsey taking the first round of her Senior Photos at her grandparents’ home near Priest River. Kelsey’s Grandfather graciously set up some hay bales for us to use and they worked out great! You would not have even known it was 40 degrees out as Kelsey braved the cold in a sun dress, cowboy boots and for a few photos her dad’s hat.
Since it was a bit chilly still we are reserving most of our outdoor portraits for the warmer, greener months and spent the majority of our time on some studio style portraits.
The last part of our session we broke out the uniforms and did some sports themed portraits.
I had a great time spending the day with Kelsey, her Mom Sandy and Grandmother Jeanie. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of fun, I can hardly wait for the weather to get nicer so we can schedule round number two!
Sandpoint Volleyball Club Magazine
It takes a substantial commitment of time and money to be a part of club sports. The Sandpoint Volleyball Club works hard to come up with ways to raise funds to help offset the financial burden that club volleyball requires. This year they are putting together a magazine featuring the teams with funds being raised through the sale of advertising to local businesses. I had the opportunity to be the feature photographer in the production of the magazine which is scheduled to be finished the first week of February and should be available all over Sandpoint.
The first thing we needed was a cover shot, something that would be signature Sandpoint and also catch the eye. Volleyball uniforms are not exactly insulated but nonetheless Beth Lewis braved the cold Winter day to work with us for a cover photo. Here is the cover shot along with a couple more shots from the afternoon.
For the rest of the photography we moved indoors. We took some team photos and then moved on to some individual photos. I wanted to be able to do some composite work with the shots so we took head shots and full body shots using a seamless paper backdrop like this one below.
Shooting this way made it a bit easier to do some composites. Here is a single player version:
Now a single player along with a team photo.
The composite that I really wanted to put together was a team photo made up of each individual portrait. I created one for each of the three teams that we created full body shots for.
To finish off the day four of the ladies stuck around to do some action portraits. We set these up using five different lights, two high powered strobes were the main lights and then for some of the photos I used as many as three speedlights to ad some interest in the otherwise black background.
If you are interested in seeing all of the finished results from this project you can find them on my website at this link: http://bit.ly/ysPKG1