Maternity Shoot

On monday, 21st of July, My wife Olya and I had the extreme pleasure of photographying Anne and John. Two great and awesome people we just love to photograph. She is due to deliver a baby boy in just under a month, and we were like "we have got to photograph you and your belly". And it all happen on that monday. What was nice was that my wife, Olya was with me and it helped tremendously. When I went to get us some refreshments, she was photographing them and when I exhausted all my ideas, she came up with new and creative ones. With out a doubt it was a pleasure being part of Anne and John's special time and capturing the love.

Check out some of the photos here.

PPASD Photo Shoot

We had one of our first workshops with the new PPASD during our July meeting and it was a great time. Paula from Barefoot studios was our instructor that day educating us on the use of available light. Getting us to basically stop our impulse to use the flash and work with what you got. Towards the end of the evening we got to playing with the Flash bouncing and it was alot of fun. I'm happy to have had a chance to work with these fine models that evening.

Kim and Matt Wedding

An Air Force wedding, I’d like to get more of these weddings as they have a different feel to them then beach or regular weddings. And by different I mean, the man in uniform were laid back kind of people but while in uniform they have that military baring that keeps them standing in certain positions and holding themselves in that military way. And I know that wearing the uniform gets awfully hot, so I wanted to be quick about the photographs I take. It’s always good to catch our men and women in uniform on camera so that they may look upon these images with fond memories of their time in service.
I really liked the church Kim and Matt choose for their wedding day, the layout was fun and easy to shoot in. The pastor was a super cool guy, with a church as fancy as that one was, I thought for sure he wouldn’t let me use my flash, but he was totally ok with it. And after the ceremony the pastor and I were talking and he gave me some new ideas for photographing the bride and groom. One of the obstacles I had to overcome was the height difference between the bride and groom. Positioning them in certain ways was the key to making the photos look right. I brought along a new assistant photographer, Damon for some training. I photographed him before for his own portfolio and for his music album cover and I really liked his creative ideas he had for posing and locations. I know he will make a great photographer. I am starting to get rather busy and so I know that I’ll need to support of my crew to continue providing the best service I can to the clients and friends.

Rehoboth Beach Thunderstorm

Living in Rehoboth beach and having a place on the third floor has given me a nice front row seat to a lot of Delaware’s weather. I’ve always been fascinated by weather, from snow storms to hurricanes and I’m a big fan of rain, not sure why. Granted when I have a wedding to do that day or a beach portrait, I pray for sunshine and good weather, but when I’m working on photos or just chilling out indoors, I love to look out and see the rain fall.

I’ve always wanted to capture my own images of lightning strikes but never took the time to walk out into a storm and photograph them. Number one it’s not a good idea to take $3000 worth of gear near or around water. You can put it in baggies or use an umbrella but why take the risk. This time however, the storm was off in the distance and it was a awesome site to see. On these images I held the camera by hand, I had the shutter speed on 1 second, and manual focus. I had to guess approximately when it might flash again. But in some cases, it would flash, I would snap the picture and then a second flash would follow and I got it.