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  • September28th

    I met Kate last week at the 2nd “Heavy Metal Karaoke Takeover” a mutual friend of ours invited us to. The next day when I added her to Facebook (because that’s what you do to be OFFICIALLY FRIENDS now, right?) and noticed she was a belly dancer! I LOVE belly dancing. I used to even do it before hooping consumed my life! I was never great though, and Kate is AMAZING! She was so fun to shoot!

    Here’s some favorites!

    Kate

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    Kate

    more to come from the Secret Dawn workshop, including model James Negri (a familiar face if you follow my work) and candid behind the scene shots!

  • September27th

    Drew

    Posted in: People, Portraits

    Drew is Leah’s other half, and he had laid claim on her company last Saturday! But he was kind enough to share his day with his lady with a group of shutternerds and myself at Michelle’s Secret Dawn Workshop. To repay his kindness, we put him to work modeling! Here’s a couple favorites…thanks Drew!

    Drew

    Drew

  • September26th

    Leah

    Posted in: People, Portraits

    I’ve been in a serious slump. Weddings are going great and I see my work improving and evolving…but outside of work I have barely lifted my camera.

    I’m not really sure why…I guess I haven’t been dedicating enough time to fostering inspiration. I barely have time to flip through my piles of magazines, let alone read a book. Most of that is backlogged wedding work fighting for all my time, the rest is the usual leeches of creativity and time-management (facebook, etc.)

    So when it came time for Michelle’s Secret Dawn workshop in Worcester, I was so excited. I needed some time to spend thinking about what’s going wrong and how to fix it.

    I will do a full review of the workshop once all the photos are done, but I’m going to post the model’s photos one by one as well.

    This is Leah, she was our first model!

    Leah

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    Leah

    You can “like” Leah, aka Siren on Facebook here. You can “like” lil’ old me here.

    Coming next…Kate, an amazing belly dancer!

  • July8th

    …you know, besides never blogging!

    I had a bit of a slump that spanned the unending winter and straight into summer, but I think it’s finally ending. I think. My mojo didn’t really even come rushing back…I had to force it! I woke up one morning sick of feeling so useless and started vowing to spend an hour looking at photography, reading blogs and making lists…endless lists.

    So far I think it’s working. I’m trying to push through the rest of my edits-to-be-edited so I can start fresh. One of the things I want to try is a daily cell phone photo that I think I’ll upload to tumblr. If you’ve never checked out tumblr before, it’s pretty awesome. It’s micro-blogging and full of great photography!

    Despite the funk I’ve been wallowing in, I have been shooting here and there. I did Beth’s maternity session a few months ago. She just had Madilyn Hope yesterday! Congrats, Beth!!

    Beth & Jack

    Beth

    Beth - Maternity Session

    There was also the model party we had back in May, I’ve still got some edits to do from this but here’s the shots I edited already.

    Julie.

    Julie for Lady Luck Boutique

    Jacky.

    Jacky for Lady Luck Boutique

    Janelle.

    Janelle for Lady Luck Boutique

    Maria.

    Maria for Lady Luck Boutique

    I also took a trip to NYC with my friend Haskell to see Scott Kelby’s Light It! Shoot It! Retouch It! tour at the Javitts center. It was totally amazing, as is to be expected from Scott Kelby’s tours at this point. I really enjoyed his Photoshop tour I saw in Boston and this one was even better. Unfortunately we didn’t have too much time to roam the streets and shoot, but I did take a few photos.

    Here’s what it looked like from our we-arrived-late seats!

    NYC - Scott Kelby Light It! Shoot It! Retouch It! tour June 2011

    We went to an amazing little Thai place for lunch.

    NYC - Scott Kelby Light It! Shoot It! Retouch It! tour June 2011

    NYC - Scott Kelby Light It! Shoot It! Retouch It! tour June 2011

    NYC - Scott Kelby Light It! Shoot It! Retouch It! tour June 2011

    Haskell was a better photographer and actually took some photos while we were there. I was a crappy one and just took a photo of him taking a photo. META!

    NYC - Scott Kelby Light It! Shoot It! Retouch It! tour June 2011

    You can check out what I’ve been doing for wedding work at the Altared Visions blog.

    More to come. I will smash this funk! SMASH!

  • April30th

    This one’s for the photographers! If you haven’t been watching the FREE weekend classes from creativeLIVE the last year or so, you’ve been missing out! creativeLIVE is online classroom that hosts some of the world’s most innovative photographers and airs their courses live for free on the internet. They believe in peer to peer education and using each other’s knowledge to lift the industry as a whole and as someone who couldn’t stand the rigidness of art school, that’s a philosophy I can get behind 100%. I love sharing information and hope to do something like this someday, so I just love it so much.

    Bummed you missed amazing classes with Zack, Jasmine Star, David duChemin, Jeremy Cowart, Bambi Cantrell and Tamara Lackey? No worries, you can buy the DVDs for around a hundred bucks…and they’re beyond worth it.

    During the classes there’s tons of fun stuff like quote contests on Twitter and a flickr pool for shots of where viewers are currently watching the class.

    In class with Zack Arias on creativeLIVE!

    Zack’s class this weekend is called Foundations of a Working Photographer and so far it’s been amazing. As I write this, Zack is about to start some outdoor portraits!

    Yesterday was an overview of photography and lighting basics, but before you roll your eyes…this wasn’t the usual aperture-does-this type of explanation! Everything Zack talked about I technically *knew* but now I really feel like I GET. Zack was the first photographer to explain the inverse square law in a way I understood in his One Light DVD and his explanation on lens compression and distortion yesterday was equally clarifying.

    Technically, I knew what a wide angle will do to a face and I knew that telephoto lenses compressed a background…but it wasn’t until I saw the staggering side-by-side photo examples that I really got how powerful something as simple as lens choice can be.

    I also FINALLY feel like I can calculate reciprocal exposures on-demand whereas before it was still EEEP MATH. I suck at math.

    I’d rave more, but Zack is getting going and I don’t want to miss anything! Catching this today or tomorrow? Tune in! http://creativelive.com/live

  • March23rd

    Spring is all about new beginnings! I’ve been busy brainstorming and planning for the summer, my spring resolution (cause who can be motivated in the dead of winter for the New Year kind? not I!) is to shoot, shoot, shoot. No excuses, every day. I started my *cough*th attempt at a Project 365 on Sunday, 3/20/11. Album here. I’m putting zero pressure on myself to do anything other than take at least one photo every day, like a visual journal. The thought of pulling off a high-production/thought out photo every single day is a little much for me right now…that’s for next year! For now, I need to carry my camera all the time. Time to thaw out the mojo!

    Since I started, having my camera next to me at all times is resulting in Aiden having his own personal paparazzi in the house. Not that he minds…

    In our home there's a lot of spontaneous dancing.

    Small hands, enormous trouble.

    He's a momma's boy...sometimes.

  • March9th

    My company Altared Visions has partnered up with Lady Luck Boutique (Ashley McLean) for a huge giveaway. What will the winner get? How’s a total makeover and free photoshoot sound? Check Ashley’s video for details!

    http://facebook.com/ladyluckboutique

  • March3rd

    In with the new! Spring Equinox is just around the corner, it’s a new year with new possibilities and I…dear reader…have finally gotten a new camera. I know, I know…”it’s not the camera, blah blah blah”…but I wanted an upgrade anyway! I’m now shooting with a full frame Canon 5D Mark II and I.love.this.camera.

    The color!
    RI Spring Flower Show

    The clarity!
    RI Spring Flower Show

    The ISO!! (Taken @ ISO1000, hand-held)
    RI Spring Flower Show

    It’s amazing what a new toy will do to breathe life into you after a long, cold, gray winter indoors. To further my new gear glee, I took friend and fellow ‘tog Sara Patton up on purchasing her Canon 50mm 1.4 lens to upgrade from the cheaper (but excellent) 50mm 1.8. This lens is slow as a beast to focus but otherwise, LOVE LOVE LOVE!

    I’m super excited to use them at our upcoming wedding with Julie & John, next weekend in Salem, MA at The Lyceum. Historic salem, new gear and retro/jazz themed wedding? My gig is pretty sweet.

    While we grow impatient waiting for Spring, my family and I have been snatching any opportunity to get out and about. We took Zoe to the RI Spring Flower Show to start teaching her how to use my Canon 20D Mary-Margaret was kind enough to give us.

    RI Spring Flower Show

    RI Spring Flower Show

    We took Aiden to Newport Creamery for lunch and ice cream…

    Taking Aiden to Lunch

    Taking Aiden to Lunch

    I’ve taken a LOT of pictures of Aiden. He mostly tolerates it.

    Aiden - February 2011

    I’ve been tugging along the camera to try and get mentally prepared for my fourth? fifth? attempt at a 365 project. I plan to start on the Spring Equinox and Jameswill be starting along with me! We’ve vowed to keep each other on track!

    One of my Spring Equinox Resolutions is to blog more on here. I get caught up in Altared Visions work and forget to blog for myself as well!

  • January1st

    Happy New Year to all of you, I hope 2011 brings you happiness, love and all that snazzy stuff.

    It’s time for attempt #3 at a 365! Third time’s the charm, right? I rang in the New Year doing what I love for a living and 2011 is all uphill from here.

    Nicole & Keith at midnight!

  • January1st

    Holidays 2010 at The Pod <3

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