Tessa

I only have 4 weeks left of school!  I can't believe how fast time is going by.  During these last few weeks we are all in portfolio building mode so for me, it's all about portraits, portraits, portraits.  This week, my beautiful friend Tessa.

P.S. The baby deer at the bottom watched us the whole time we were shooting

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Love Is In the Air

Last week was wedding week at school and it was......awesome!  Maybe my best week here so far.  Our 2 instructors were fabulous and I learned so much my head nearly exploded.  Seriously, it was a close call.  Each day we shot a different part of the wedding: engagements, bridals, bridal party, details, and trash the dress.  We worked with several different models throughout the week and had so much fun together.  I had a lot of photos that I liked so I put them in a slideshow.  Enjoy!



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Shooting For Magazines

Two weeks ago I got to spend an entire week learning how to shoot for magazines.  My class was taught by Allison Leach, a former People Magazine photographer.  Throughout the week we were given three assignments that would be similar to those given out by a photo editor.  We had to photograph an employee in their place of business for a human interest story (the bike shoot), an executive in their office for a business magazine (the man in suit), and a celebrity promoting a new product for a promotional story (the laundry shoot...don't ask).  For these shoots we lug studio lighting on location and have minimal time to work with our subject.  The idea is to come up with unique and creative ways to photograph these people so that the images are not stale for the publication.

A note about the bike shoot; this 25 year old Brad Pitt was not originally our model but our original model wasn't feeling well so this guy stepped in.  Needless to say, the three other women in my group and I were quite please with the substitution.