I'm moving.....

This blog off Blogger.... Please come see me at my new digs....

http://www.erniesphotosafari.com

I think this will be a good thing. I've reworked my wedding photography blog and copied a few of these recent posts over to it so that it has some other content besides just weddings.

I'm not changing my photo diary blog... at least not at this time... but I may. :)

The basics... of what?

So here some more of those photos that I shot from that last shoot with Alli. These are decidedly more sexy and more along the lines of what we typically think of as high key. It seems that recently fashion has been going back to high key and gray backgrounds or gray backgrounds with colored gels on them. It’s simple and clean so I can understand it.

When Alli mentioned gluing lace to her body I liked the idea and was sure we could make some very cool shots with it if we could keep it from becoming too much like cheesy glamour. I think we managed to keep that from happening, even though she’s not wearing much they still have a fashion feel to me. Maybe we can call it basic or primitive fashion.

I like that term “primitive” fashion, because that’s exactly what we did in our next set. We were going to do two separate sets using paint the first was tribal and the next set I’ll show you in the next update.

She put her hair up and I painted some vaguely tribal patterns on her face, arms, upper chest and back in blue paint. I hoped the blue would stand out well against her hair and make her eyes stand out. It occurred to me while we were shooting that I liked the designs on the left side of her face more than the ones on her right side.

Alli did a wonderful job of being aggressive and powerful in these photos. She knows how to pose and project emotions and feelings. I really do love working with her. Part of that is because we know each other very well and pretty much know what the other will like.

Because the blue paint is a primary color it made contrasty black and white conversions where the paint was near to black very easy and striking.

I was going to put the next set in with these but there were just too many photos that I wanted to show you so I broke them up.

ASU v. Denver... the Ladies were on the court today.

So we played Denver again today, but it was our ladies on the court instead of the men. It was a good game. Lots of action, literally a fast paced scrap from the beginning. Much better than yesterday. And to make it better we won the game.

Unfortunately this is probably going to be the last game of the season that I can shoot. Which is a bummer, I love shooting basketball.

ASU v. Denver

For one reason of another I haven't been able to shoot as much basketball ball as I generally like to but I got myself a fix tonight. Unfortunately we lost though.






At halftime the dance team brought out some little ones from a dance camp they had that day. It actually a pretty good show watching them.



And these two are in what I think they called the Pop Squad. They did a very good job also

Corner Work

Well, as you know I haven’t been shooting much to make sure I have time to study and it’s paying off. I got an A on my first test and I’m very happy about that.

So here are some photos from my last shoot with Alli. She mentioned liking the set for the clockwork orange promo photos, so I set something like that up. It worked very well for these photos.










They aren’t terribly high key, but enough so that they are interesting.

The zebra stripes and red worked well with this setup, the white of the dress was lighter and brighter than the wall which worked well for separating her white from it’s white. The lighting was very simple, a 27 inch silver beauty dish for even but specular light, the corner filled itself very well.

I was looking for something different here and I’m pretty sure that I’ve accomplished it. They are high key, without being the normal high key that everyone else is putting out. The corner was actually very nice for posing in.

Of the variety of photos we shot this day, I’m particularly happy with the ones in the black dress. It flowed very well and shows off Alli’s legs very well.

I’ve got more of Alli to show you from this session, but I need to read chapter 5, it’s about libel. Specifically about proof of fault in a libel case…….

The beautiful Kristi

This is Kristi, she’s a good friend of mine that I periodically make photos of. It seems like it’s only once every couple years, but it's a quality not quantity thing I guess you could say.

As a mater of fact, I've been shooting photos with Kristi so long that I have many rolls of film with her on it. She's always fun to be around and work with... we actually tease each other mercilessly.... it's lots of fun. :)
I guess I should make the effort to photos with her more often shouldn't I.

I’m not sure where the idea for these photos came from any more; most likely it was some movie showing someone getting ready at a makeup mirror. I thought about how to style and shoot it and knew she would be perfect for it. I’m extremely happy with the resulting photos and she tells me she loves them so all is well. I love it when a plan comes together.
The makeup photos were kind of a bonus really; she needed to do the makeup anyway for the portraits. Or maybe the portraits at the end were the bonus for the makeup shoot. However you see it, once we had the makeup done it was time to do some glamorous portraits.

I wanted to them to be classy, for them to be beautiful and elegant with very flattering light on her face. I used a gelled background light to separate her hair from the background and add a bit of color to the photo.

I also knew I wanted to convert some of them to a brown toned B&W that I am partial to. That’s why I used a warm brown for the background light instead of something like red to match the lipstick so the brown toned photos will fit well with the full color photos.


I’m sorry it’s been so long since I updated, but I’ve enrolled in school to work on a Masters degree so I’m kind of busy right now. I’ll do my best to keep this up but I may have to consolidate some blogs. I’m still thinking about that though.

Red Wolves 63 : Privateers 61

The Red Wolves beat UNO Sunday afternoon by 2 free throw points scored by sophomore forward Shay Scott in the last second of the game. That's right... the last second... The other photogs and I were anticipating overtime when ASU Scott went in for a layup and missed with the tie game, but she was fouled. We were all please.... just one point.... and she gave us two. :)