New website

After a lot of soul-searching and exchanges of emails of a photography friend, I have decided to rework my website and focus on my stronger images.  When I finished photography school, I had a portfolio review by Jim Fitts and he told me my strongest images are of fine art work.  I was a little resistant to make this my only focus but after looking back at what I have been doing on my free time and the work that I have produced from it, i cannot argue any longer.

       I am also going to be focusing on my wide-angle portraits.  I am still amazed by the work of Platon.  My final project at school was a series of them that were just amazing. 

      This weekend I will be cleaning and backing up hard drives and selecting images for my new website.  I was going to wait until my ad on the knot but why bother.

     I will be still willing to do weddings providing I can use my style for the bride's wedding.

     I will leave you with my favorite image from my recent trip to Atlanta.

Beth and Dan's Wedding

 I had the opturnity to shoot another weekend over the weekend. 



 

The happy coule was married St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, College of the Holy Cross

 

While another photographer got the service, I stayed in back and got this shoot. (I did get some of the shots using the same lens and angle.)  There were a lot of other "photographers" there and I did not want to turn Beth's special event into a paprazzi event. 





 

Andrea and Jason

I was lucky enough to shoot the wedding of Andrea and Jason on Saturday.  It was so much fun.  I am in the process of editing the images and here are my favorite three so far. 

 

I cannot believe how lucky I am to be able to capture the day when people decide to spend the rest of their life together.

My latest wedding

I did another wedding over the weekend and it was so much fun.  I worked with Melissa again and we hit it off as a team.  I have learned so much from her.  I have come a long way.  I cannot wait to start getting my own gigs.  I will have them up on my web-page in a day or two.  (Sorry, I make my selects and then go over them in a day or two.  (It makes all the difference in what I select.)   And for my fans of the wide angle, yes I did the reception again using my wide angle.

New gallery add to my webpage

I added a new gallery to my webapge.  It is all of the wide angle stuff that I did at my last wedding.  (Plus I put those images on my flickr page as well.)  Take a look and let me know what you think.

Picture from the wedding shoot

Here is one of my favorites.

 

 

I just love what the wide angle lens has done!  (The dutch tilt helps as well)

wedding shoot

  I came back last night full of energy!  The wedding was so much fun.  I wish Matt and Lisa all the luck in the world!

  The primary shooter was Melissa St. Laurent and we learned so much from each other.  I taught her about her camera and she taught me about wedding photography. (She just made the switch to digital)  She wants to work with me the future!

 

 

  During the reception I tried something totally different, using my wide angle and the pictures came out fantastic!  I got the idea from one of the TA's at school, Chris Shelley.  He is the one that suduced me to the dark side of photography.  I was taking portrait class and he came in and started playing with the wide angle lens and got me hooked.  Here is an image from that day.

 

 This is Howard and he in one of the film instructors at school.  Everyone who has seen this shoot loves it.  (Well, except my wife)  His friend's and family all think it looks just like him.