Photography
A few weeks ago David Laietta hosted the monthly MeetUp of WordPress Orlando that featured the title “The Business of Blogging“. There is a large community here in Central Florida that are bloggers and use WordPress so this particular MeetUp was anticipated not just for the topic but for the guest speakers.
The speakers were Bess Auer, Angel Yard, and Gloria Rand. While I won’t get too much into what they talked about, I would rather point you to the MeetUp website and see for yourself here. For now, check out some of the photos I shot from the event.
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How to, Photography
Recently I decided to make my client photos available via Flickr and private Albums/Groups for my customers. The reason for doing this is so that I can have an online viewing location for my photography clients to easily view all of their photos from recent shoots or events, and then select the ones they like the best for their albums and other products.
It took a little playing around to figure out how to make it work with just a few steps, but overall I’d say it’s worth the effort on the photographer’s end to present a mass number of photos online without paying for storage or a monthly fee. One of the main benefits of Flickr is having about a Terabyte of space for free. Essentially you could just about use Flickr as a free online backup for your photos.
Anyways I created a short video on how to do just that. Once you’ve selected your favorite photos, you can view them all by hitting the drop down you’ll be taken to view your Favorite pictures. The video takes it up from there.
Photography
Last year my mom hosted Thanksgiving dinner. While this year’s dinner will most likely be at our house, I wanted to share some photos of the table and place settings. As a photographer by second form of living, my personal pictures and work don’t always see the light of day or post edits once shot and moved from memory card to storage. So throughout the year I find myself going back and reviewing some personal work and appreciating the moments I captured. I spend so much time working on client work that I rarely spend time on my own. Hope you enjoy!
Photography
If you’ve ever tried to photograph kids, you know that it’s a tough job. Trying to get them to stay still for more than 3 seconds is almost impossible. Especially when it is a scheduled shoot with a family, and the kids have their own agenda for how things are going to be for the next few hours.
This shot was taken at a local park near my house. My niece (the subject) was climbing up a slide and just happened to look over at my while I was preparing to shoot. I’m a fan of natural light, and to see how the sunset was shining off her huge cheeks created just the art that I wanted to capture.
Photography
About a week ago I had the privilege to shoot an engagement shoot with a young couple here in Orlando for their upcoming wedding in September of this year. My normal procedure with shoots is to sit down with my clients a week or so ahead of the shoot and talk about the target shots they’d like to achieve and ones I’d like to achieve based on the theme and wish list. We had everything down and all parties were looking forward to the date.
Being in Florida, our weather can change from day-to-day. So with that we had to quickly change our location from outdoor to indoor which thus changes a lot of the theme elements we had planned on utilizing for the shoot. Thankfully this couple was more than willing to comply and switch and adapt.
This is a sample photo from the shoot that we all loved. There’s quite a story with the record player, how close they are, the reason why they’re out of focus, and of course the ring.
Photography
We had booked a photo session with a young couple for their engagement over two months ago. When you live in Florida, the weather can be different from day-to-day, and so on the day we planned to shoot it was heavily overcast and rainy. So the decision was made to shoot indoors at the location of where the wedding will be later this year, which was the Rosen Center Hotel.
