Sammie and Corn Field

 I finally got to shoot in a field another field I see all of the time. It's a corn field on I35 West in Fort Worth. My friend Sam braved the heat to come out and shoot with me. I think it was 101'. She did a great job. 

 I shot these with one of my Einstein lights and a beauty dish. This light is so powerful I didn't have any trouble overpowering the sun.

Allie

I've been taking a break from photography. Just refocusing after a bunch of studio shooting. Anyways, I drive past this field everyday leaving my house and coming home. Allie agreed to come over from North Dallas to shoot with me and we had a great shoot. 

 

 

Thanks to Allie for shooting with me. 

-Brian

Charlie

Last week I had the opportunity to shoot with Charlie before she moved to Seattle. 

We have this old chair, kind of looks like a baseball mitt. I liked the contrast with the dress and her posture. 

Thanks to Charlie for shooting with me.

-Brian

Nash Composite

This is something different than I usually do. This is a composite image. I took a photo with my shoot with Nash and placed her on a background I took later on. There's a lot more to it than that, but it all worked out to a cool image.

-Brian

Me

Usually I like to be behind the camera, but a few people have pointed out that there aren't any photos of me on my website. My friend Kelly came by the studio and helped me take these photos. I think I'll stay behind the camera but these turned out well

I usually don't have lights in  my pictures much less bare strobes, but the picture felt like it needed something different. The smaller camera with the silver on it is my dad's old Canon AT-1. As a kid I was always interested and amazed by this camera.

 This Mamiya is extremely heavy. It's a 6x7 medium format film camera. It's a lot of fun to shoot, but it takes practice to get right. I usually only shoot black and white in it.

 Another shot with some softboxes. This setup is how I shoot a lot of my pictures. I like how the lights distinguished the subject from the background.

 I have to do one funny picture.

Thanks to Kelly for taking some cool pictures.

Nashua

 Last week I had the opportunity to shoot with Nashua. She's about to graduate from UTA with a degree in psychology.

I bought these white beats a month ago and thought they fit this kind of shoot.

 another great headshot.

Thanks to Nash for shooting with me.

-Brian

Trailer Park Chic

I wrote last time that I'm trying to expand my portrait portfolio. I came up with this idea a while back. There's a trailer park across the street from my studio. I really wanted to shoot something over there. So asked Rachel to come out and bring her curlers. I think it turned out pretty well.

Thanks to Rachel for running with my crazy idea.

-Brian

Ice Cream

Looking through my portfolio and thinking about the type of images I want to shoot, I've realized I'm not shooting the images I want to make. Some of that's been because of moving into a studio and fully understanding the lights and how everything works. But I'm making a conscious effort to shoot what I want my style to be. I want my pictures to be humorous (most of the time) and tell a story.

I've had this idea about ice cream in my head for a few weeks. Sammie volunteered to come in and bring her boyfriend Luke. This picture is almost exactly what was in my head, so I'm pleased with it. I like how her hair shows movement along with his facial expression.

And yes, we did eat the ice cream later.

Thanks to Sam and Luke for helping me create this image.

Brian

First Magazine Shoot!

I finally get to share this. Last month I did my first magazine shoot. It was for Truckers News magazine. One of my photos even made the cover. I was fortunate to get to ride with two of the engineers that designed the truck and the writer, Jack, from Truckers News. This truck is awesome. Peterbuilt designed it new from the ground up. It has an automatic transmission and runs like a pickup. It even uses a new radar equipped cruise control. It's an incredible truck.

Check out the photos and let me know what you think. We also shot some video, but it's not posted yet.
Thanks,
Brian


http://read.dmtmag.com/i/62228/0

Jessi

Today I shot with Jessi. My green background paper finally came in so we took a few shots with it.

This shot is using my Orbis Ringflash. I think it turned out awesome.
I get tired of shots where everything is perfect.







This is a really great headshot.
Thanks to Jessi for shooting with me. Great work.

Thanks,
Brian

Loree & the new Canon 5DMKIII

Big news this week. Canon released the new Canon 5DMKIII (aka 5d3). I've shot the Canon 5DMKII (5d2) for over two years now and taken over 40,000 photos (that's like 55 photos a day) with it. It produces great images, but it had one main problem, AUTO FOCUS. How they built such a great camera with horrible auto focus I don't know, but I've overlooked it as much as possible due to the great image quality. After my last wedding I was just about fed up with it though. I was considering switching to Nikon. Canon announced the 5d3 a few weeks ago and they fixed the AF. So luckily for me I'm staying with Canon. Not only did they fix the auto focus, but they gave me a whole bunch of other stuff that is just bonus. I'll review the 5d3 after I've shot it for a few weeks, but I can already tell you after one shoot, the auto focus is fixed.

So now that's out of the way. The release of the 5d3 coincided with me having a shoot Tuesday evening with Loree. She's a very cool bank lender from Dallas. Make sure you click on the photos to see the larger images.

This is a perfect head shot. The pose and expression, along with the composition are perfect.

The studio has this fan that I never use because it's like a plane propeller. But we gave it a try. I wanted a cool shot of her hair blowing back in her face. I think this an interesting shot.






There's random stuff in the studio. This bass was in the supply closet so we shot some with it. Loree's strong, this bass is massive.
This shot feels like summer.

Thanks to Loree for shooting with me and the new Canon 5DMKIII.

-Brian

April

Tonight I had the pleasure of shooting with April. In word, Range. April has so many different looks it's unfair. Plus she's a lot of fun.

This shot is just incredible. The light and expression are awesome. I pushed the color to more green and it really works here.
I think this turned out well. April's tough for doing this pose in heels. This is an old green trunk we have at the studio.

RING FLASH!
Great attitude in this one.


This is my first jump shot in the studio. At first I was having her jump off of a chair, but I underestimated how high she can jump. So April came up with the idea to just look like she's floating, much better. This is a cool shot. Reminds me of perfume and makeup adds.
Thanks to April for just doing an awesome job.

Thanks,
Brian

Ashley

Last week I had the opportunity to shoot with Ashley. We got some great photos.

I liked this one the best.

The shot below uses split lighting but I had Ashley turn and face into one of the lights. It created this very cool effect of the shadow going down her side.



Sometimes the lights don't all fire and it reminds me how much I like "one-light" shots like this one. After this shot we just stuck with the one light approach.
Thanks to Ashley for shooting with me.

-Brian

Miss Myi

Today I shot with Myi. She's a singer from Houston. Look for her EP to come out in a month or so.

I really like the pink background here.
Myi showed me this great photo of Beyonce, we did a little tribute here.
Flamingo?
You wouldn't realize how hard it is to get the fan to blow just right for her hair. Fun though.
Thanks to Myi for shooting with me today. Really fun and the loudest it's been in my studio.

-Brian