The truth is that I love portraits, but it was a challenge for me to get out of of doing "glamour Shots", and Im not sure I succeeded, but that being said I am happy with my work. I posted a little "add" on my face book to do a session for somone I didnt know and ended up shooting a girl named liz and her horse. Infact this session inspired what is going to be my final project. Ive been working on it with a new photo session almost every night for about a two weeks now. Anyway...I learned that when it comes to this kind of work, seeing really clear eyes, and feeling like you could guess who the person is just from one shot is oohhh so important!! I have some work to do, when it comes to the serious story telling kind of shot. I actually set up about six shoots with this assignment in mind and never really liked what I got, because of corse I was trying to "stage" the story. I even got one guy to pull his horse team and wagon out and do his cowboy thing, but unless I did candid shots, I felt like they looked set up. I Loved a lot of what I got, but in our lecture you specifically explained that these need to be people looking at the camera for an intend shot. The good news is I have a lot to learn, which mean more shooting!
Liz and I had such a fun time. The reason for our shoot was centered around Liz and her sweet horse. He is 24 now, but she got him when she was 14 as her first horse. She competed with him through training level in eventing and just this last year had to retire him due to a foot problem. She will soon have to have him euthanized as he is in a tremendous amount of pain, so she really want to capture her best bud in a few pictures. She said that if the perfect guy were out there, he would be just like her horse......only a horse lover would get that!!
This is megan. We did a little bridal shoot together and wow she was soo much fun to work with. If you look at this picture and see a girl that just beautiful, simple, and natural than you nailed this girl on the head. she had a little bit of mascara on for make-up and was wearing a borrowed dress. Talk about naturally beautiful!! we traveled all over Utah county and worked together for like four hours. we went from the fair in Lehi, to the freezing cold water in AF canyon!!!
