What a week!

I was doing so well on updating consistently. Then as per usual, I get busy and the blog is the victim.

So here’s what been up this week, and in a way I suppose this can be an outline for what posts will be coming soon. Innovation!

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Erica and Kyle - Engagement Session

If there is one thing I love more than taking photos, it’s taking photos of friends. I know it sounds really cheesy, but it’s true. Maybe it’s just because I know fun people. Erica and Kyle are no exception.

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Jason and Jennifer - Engagement Session

What a cool couple. Let me just start there. After some unsavory weather on our first session the skies cleared up and gave us a beautiful day to capture these two.

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Pierpoint - Band Photoshoot

Pierpoint’s photo shoot has been a long time coming. I don’t know how many times we had to reschedule, but we finally got all the details worked out and found a date everyone could do.

The results?

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Rock Bridge High School - Brochure

A month or so ago we were asked to make a brochure for a local high school. You all know by now that I have to stay pretty tight-lipped about things until they are published no matter the size of the project. Now it’s been printed and released so, here you go!

The brochure is an offset Z-fold. what that means is that the green bar you see on the right of the cover, is actually the right edge of the panel behind the cover. Involved I know, but it makes for a much more interesting piece than a standard tri-panel brochure.

Anyway, I got to do both the photography and the design of the piece. I love it when that happens because it means that I get as close to freedom as you can get in this business. It doesn’t happen often, but man I’m tellin ya’ when it does, it rocks.

Photography Gear à la Mode.

It’s always nice when your plans work out the way you want them to. It has bothered me for a long time that many of my ideas are hindered by the lack of certain pieces of equipment. The biggest of these is that it is very difficult to put together a quick location shoot without portable power.  So last month I made some plans to take care of this issue once and for all, using my favorite interstellar photography supplier - Alien Bees.

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New old stuff.

From time to time I go back and look at old shots. I’ve found that when I give myself a few weeks or months between the first time I see them and when I revisit them I usually find things I didn’t notice before. Like a good photo that I would have overlooked otherwise.

I’m not sure exactly why that is, but it feels like I’m discovering something nobody has ever seen before. I suppose in a way that’s true.

Time for a nap.

Well folks, just wanted to hop on here real quick and tell you that I I just finished principal photography for a new ad campaign today. We shot the TV spots, recorded the radio, and nailed the print pieces all in the last two days.

Tomorrow and Friday I’ll be out overseeing the editing of the TV spots and we should have one of them ready to rock and on air by September. I’m really excited to tell you all more about it, but I can’t yet. I can say that we had a tremendous group of people working on it and everyone did an amazing job.

I’m exhausted and I’m not sure I can keep writing without revealing something I shouldn’t, so until I know I am allowed to say more we will all have to sit with baited breath.

Stay tuned.

An Article and a Model.

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a safe, fun Fourth of July.

Life is busy as ever over here. I’ve been so swamped with photo and design work I’ve barely had time to think about writing, much less do it.

Google Alerts has become my new best friend, every day I get an email telling me what new stuff google has found with whatever search term I decide. Naturally, I decided that my own name would be the first thing I wanted to know about. Since I’ve started using this service, I’ve discovered that there are a hell of a lot of people that have my name. I did find something cool though.

I was interviewed several months back about my use of flickr.com for photography. The author didn’t know if the article was going to be published or not, so I just forgot about it. Well, it did get published and google let me know. How cool is that?

Here is the link

In other news, another out of state model made the long trek to shoot with me. Although we only shot for about an hour she was an all-star and we got a ton of great shots in that short amount of time.

There are several more images, but I can’t decide on my favorites yet…so you’ll have to wait a bit for the rest.

Hope you are all doing well!

-David

The Silence is Lifted.

Hey everyone,

First let me apologize for the amount of time that’s past since I last wrote here. I’ll be honest with you, that is the fair thing to do.

It has been very rough for me since my uncle died in late April. I’ve struggled to stay motivated and positive. I’m happy to say that’s when it’s been necessary I have pulled it together and my work has not suffered. I am still booking, still shooting, still working… yet my life is definitely different now. Anyone who has lost someone like a parent will understand. It knocks the wind out of your sails a bit.

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