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My first e-session of the year!! Katie and Thayer are getting married in the summer and we had a great time messing around by the train tracks for this session.
As last year, I’ll be shooting some weddings for Powers Oregon this summer and this is one of those weddings.
Coming soon, to a kitchen near you…..
I’m in the middle of archiving last year’s work and prepping a new blog for Times Two Studios and going through my brides from this year I thought I’d put them all together in one post! I’m looking forward to capturing many beautiful brides this year too.
In March, I’ll be hosting the first Portland Pin-Ups photography workshop. Open to professional photographers only, I’ll be going through my entire pin-up process including shooting a live model and post-processing too. The workshop is two full days, one with me, the other with awesome photographer and great friend of mine, Andy Armstrong. This workshop is not open to Portland area photographers – sorry guys, but I have to keep some secrets close for those in direct competition!!
The snow continues to blanket Portland, and over the weekend we had a pretty big ice-storm too which covered everything with about 1/4 inch of ice. By Sunday, the ground was solid ice with 6-8 inches of show underneath! These shots are from Saturday and Sunday – the ice doesn’t show very well, but those in Portland will know how much fun it is! More snow Sunday night means it’s even deeper than this now…great fun!
I’m trying out some 70′s style coloring on these ones:
So, winter finally hit Portland big time this weekend – a smattering of snow and we are down in the low 20′s temperature wise!! We shouldn’t moan, the rest of the country is having it much worse, with the North East having major ice storms. The snow went away as quickly as it came but we had some fun while it lasted. More to come Wednesday!! Whoo hooo.!!!
Here’s Alison and Henry enjoying the cold…
Some more of my shots from my recent trip to Miami – only a few weeks ago, but I’m already missing that hot hot sun!!
For two days only, I’m offering an awesome price for your pin-up session!! Book now, these will go quickly!
I’m just back from a great week in Miami – relaxing after a busy summer of weddings, portraits and pin-ups and getting some sun before the full winter kicks in here in Portland! Miami is a bit like LA – full of rich, beautiful people with way too much money and cars that cost more than my house! Still – it was sunny..for the most part…and I got to hang out with my best buddy Steve for a week. Downside was I was away from my wife and son for a week. Here are a few quick shots – more to come.
While at the NOBS Photo Success Inferno last week, I took part in the Shoot Out. This was an amazing night where 6 photographers were thrown a challenge and then 6 retouchers worked their magic on the images.
The photographers were matched with a retoucher by pulling names from a hat, and I was lucky enough to get James Hodgins – the co-founder of NOBS, an awesome photographer and top guy too! All the photographers were secluded outside the main room and brought in one by one to shoot. They had one large strobe, a desk lamp and a reflector for lighting and had to use a chaise as a prop. They had a lovely model to work with and just 5 minutes to set up and shoot a perfect image. James read my mind and took apart the desk lamp and used the shade on the model’s head, which I thought was going to be our shot…but then he had a flash of inspiration and took the bulb out, cooled it then stuck it in the model’s mouth!! I was cursing him as I only had 15 minutes to retouch the image, and I’d have liked an hour on that one!
We had a break after all the photographer’s had shot, then we all downloaded at once and had 3 minutes to choose an image. I was in between the shade/head shot and the bulb/shot..but thought what the hell, and picked the bulb one! I then had 15 minutes to retouch the image anyway I wanted with a crowd of about 30 people milling around me! I had great fun working this way and going up against some of the best retouchers around. The overall winner was Jason Abbott – a great photographer (and new friend) from Texas. His image was retouched by the awesome Shelly Harrington. The whole evening was organised by another great new friend of mine, Alison Berk from Humbolt, Canada. She spent the night in character as Sarah Palin (who?!)
Here are all the photographers and retouchers and me working hard with an audience. Images courtesy of Tommy Cooper Photography.
And here is the image that James shot and my final version…I used a blue action from the amazing Andy Armstrong’s Design|House set. Andy was one of my competitors and he’s also now a firm friend.
