June Bobble Head Portraits

When you use a wide angle lens, like my Canon 17-40, you have to pay close attention to the distortion that is created when you shoot the lens at the wider settings.  The distortion is especially prominent when you shoot with a full frame camera body like the Canon 5D III.   It is usually recommended that you try to avoid the distortion, especially when taking portraits but instead I have decided to start embracing it to make some fun, intentionally goofy portraits during my senior photo sessions.  I have been calling these portraits my “Bobble Head Portraits”, the reason will be blatantly obvious as you view the photos!

The main goal of my senior sessions is to make sure that my clients look great, an important part of achieving that goal is to make sure that we always have a fun time working together and these Bobble Head Portraits are sure to bring a laugh or two.  Here are the Bobble Head Portraits from my June senior photo sessions.

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Intentionally goofy bobble head senior portrait by Sandpoint Photographer and Coeur d'Alene Photographer Jason Duchow


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Intentionally goofy bobble head senior portrait by Sandpoint Photographer and Coeur d'Alene Photographer Jason Duchow
Intentionally goofy bobble head senior portrait by Sandpoint Photographer and Coeur d'Alene Photographer Jason Duchow

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Intentionally goofy bobble head senior portrait by Sandpoint Photographer and Coeur d'Alene Photographer Jason Duchow

Intentionally goofy bobble head senior portrait by Sandpoint Photographer and Coeur d'Alene Photographer Jason Duchow

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Intentionally goofy bobble head senior portrait by Sandpoint Photographer and Coeur d'Alene Photographer Jason Duchow

 

Jason Duchow Photography is located near Sandpoint and Priest River Idaho and serves throughout Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.

Micah’s Senior Portraits

Micah is a senior in the class of 2014 from Sandpoint High School, we worked on his senior portraits at a couple of locations around Sandpoint.  Since Micah is a tennis player for Sandpoint we finished up our session at the tennis court where we had perhaps the most amazing sunset I have ever had during a portrait shoot!

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Sandpoint High School Senior Micah's senior photos in Sandpoint Idaho by Jason Duchow Photography www.jasonduchowphotography.com

Amazing sunset for this tennis themed senior portrait

Outtakes

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Jason Duchow Photography is located in Oldtown, Idaho and does on location portraiture throughout Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.

Baylee’s Senior Photos

Baylee is a senior from Lakeland High School, for Baylee’s senior photos we worked with a few different locations in and around Rathdrum, Idaho.    here are a handful of photos from our senior photo shoot as well as a video slideshow with these and many more of the photos set to music.

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Baylee's Senior Photos in rathdrum, Idaho

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After the sun got a little lower in the sky we moved to a great field with an old barn, we had great natural light to work with for some environmental portraits.sun bathed senior portrait in a field senior portrait in a field with an old barn senior portrait in a field sunset senior portrait senior portrait in a field

We concluded our session at the basketball court at sunset.
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 Check out this video for even more photos from this senior photo session

 

Jason Duchow Photography is located near Sandpoint and Priest River Idaho and serves throughout Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.

 

Breanna’s Senior Photos

Breanna is a senior from Sandpoint High School and is one of my senior models for the class of 2014, for her senior photos we worked together at a number of differnet locations around Sandpoint.

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Jason Duchow Photography is located in Oldtown, Idaho and does on location portraiture throughout Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.

Bella’s Rainy Day Senior Photos

This last spring I had a contest offering a free portrait session and digital photo package, Bella won that contest and chose to have senior photos taken.  Bella is from Australia and this past year she was a foreign exchange student at Sandpoint High School.   There was not a lot of time between her winning the contest and having to depart the states to return home so when her session day turned out to be a rainy one rescheduling was not an option.  Instead, I put my Hydrophobia rain gear by Think Tank on the camera and we used some garbage bags to protect the flash and battery pack.  Here is a photo of my assistant Pete with our make shift rain gear for the flash.

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Our original plan was to take Bella’s photos with some of the buildings, landmarks and locations that are well known in Sandpoint.  We were going to start at Scweitzer Mountain Resort, but the clouds were so low that we would have no worthwhile view so instead we just stuck to locations around town.  We started out using the Panada Theater as a backdrop, then locations with a view of the Cedar Street Bridge, City Beach Sign, Powerhouse and Long Bridge.

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Outtakes

Senior Photo Outtakes in Sandpoint, Idaho

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Jason Duchow Photography is located near Sandpoint and Priest River Idaho and serves throughout Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.

Daranie’s Senior Photos – Session #2

Daranie is going to be a senior at Priest River High School and is one of my Class of 2014 Senior Models, I had an opening in the schedule so we squeezed in a second session to capture some senior photos!  Just as with the first session (view that post here) we had a great June sunset with great clouds to finish up the session.  June can be a tricky month for portraits because the weather can be so unpredictable and sometimes it rains the whole month, but it can also be one of the best months for great skies and sunsets!

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Video Slideshow

I put together a slideshow from both of our senior photo session together, you can view it here on this blog post or visit the link to view it on YouTube.  Click Here to watch on YouTube.

Outtakes

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 Jason Duchow Photography is located in Oldtown, Idaho and does on location portraiture throughout Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.

Bradley’s Senior Photos

Bradley is a senior int the Class of 2014 from Bonners Ferry High School, we worked on his senior photos at three different locations around Sandpoint, Idaho.   When we talked during our consultation Bradley mentioned that he was a huge comic book fan, especially Batman.  I wanted to come up with a location where we could showcase some of his comic book collection where it would not look too out of place so I contacted Angela at Kokanee Coffee in Sandpoint and we were able to set up a time that we could come and set up a few quick shots at the coffee shop.   It was a fun shot to set up and I am very thankful to Kokanee Coffee for letting us use their coffee shop!

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Outtakes

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Jason Duchow Photography is located in Oldtown, Idaho and does on location portraiture throughout Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.

Zach’s Senior Photos

Zach is a senior in the class of 2014 from Lake City High School, we took his senior photos at two different locations in the Coeur d’Alene area.  The first location was a spot that he has enjoyed visiting for many years.  While we were there someone set off what sounded like an M80 which prompted the property owner to send an entourage to find out who was setting off fireworks on their property.  We benefited from this as they parked their classic Toyota Land Cruiser right by where were were taking photos so naturally we had to make use of it as a prop!

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Jason Duchow Photography is located in Oldtown, Idaho and does on location portraiture throughout Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.

 

Aaron’s Senior Photos

Aaron is a Senior who lives in Iowa but during a visit to North Idaho in June I had the pleasure of working with him to create some senior photos that just cannot be created in Iowa!  We started out at a location on Schweitzer with a great view of Lake Pend Orielle and then visited a couple of locations around the Sandpoint City Beach as well as the Lake.

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 Jason Duchow Photography is located near Sandpoint and Priest River Idaho and serves throughout Idaho and Eastern Washington.   Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of  dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.

3rd Birthday Giveaway!

June 1st marked the 3rd birthday of Jason Duchow Photography and to celebrate we are having a birthday giveaway!   I know that usually it is the one celebrating a birthday that receives the presents, but it is our fans and clients that have allowed this business to continue and to grow so we giving something away to one of you!   The winner will be announced on Friday, June 14.  Entering the giveaway is really pretty simple, here is what you need to do.

  1.  Follow on Facebook.  You must be a fan or “Liker” on Facebook.  Look at the right hand side of the screen where it says “Follow on Facebook” if it says “You like this” next to the Like Button then you have completed step number 1.  If the Like Button is blue  and has the word “like” next to it then just click it, if you are prompted to log in to Facebook complete your log in and wallah you have completed step number 1.
  2.  Leave a comment.  Step number 2 can be completed at the bottom of this blog post.  Leave a comment and tell me what prize would like to have if you win the giveaway.   You don’t have to leave a lot of details, but the more the better since it makes for more interesting reading for me!
  3.  Increase your chances.  If you complete steps 1 and 2 you are entered, but if you want to increase your chances of winning then share this contest with your Facebook friends by visiting the Jason Duchow Photography Facebook page and using the share button to share this contest with your Facebook friends.

Now what are the prize choices you ask… here are the options:

Senior Photo Session and Digital Photo Package

A two hour on location photo shoot and your choice of 8 digital photos with release.

Sandpoint Photographer

Senior Portrait in Priest River Idaho

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Rathdrum Photographer, Soccer Player, Senior Photo

 Action Portrait Session and Digital Package

Get photos of you participating in your favorite sport in a way that you never can during an actual game.  Include any combination of action and still portraits.  A 2 hour on location session and 8 digital images is included in this prize.

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Family Photo Session and Digital Package

Win a 2 hour on location photo session and 8 digital images to show off how much the kids have grown or announce a new addition to the family!

Sandpoint Family Photo

Sandpoint Photographer

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Photo Booth Rental with Digital Package

Do you have a birthday party, reunion, wedding reception or another kind of get together planned in the near future.  A fun way to remember your event is with our fun photo booth.  Our booth is big enough for large groupings, includes our fun box of props and uses professional quality lighting and camera equipment for high quality results.   Up to 4 hours of booth rental and all the images in digital format are included with this prize.

** please include your event date in your comment so we know if your date is available**

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 One on One Instruction

New to photography and want to learn how to use your camera or have you figured out those dials and knobs but want to learn how to do something new?  This prize includes up to 4 hours of personal one on one photography instruction.

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Thank you again to all of you that have been faithful supporters over the course of the last three years!  Now remember to leave a comments and visit www.facebook.com/jasonduchowphotography and share this giveaway with your Facebook friends!