Renee's Shoot and Big Things Poppin...

First of all,let me sum up this shoot with two words, Good times.There's a big reason this shoot was so important to me,as it was one I had planned for a long time.It was also the first shoot I needed a property release for which got me pretty nervous.The best part about it was that I couldn't have asked for a better location.The owners of the property were very pleasant when I spoke with them and I was free to use whatever I had to,so before I go on any further I have to thank them one more time for letting me use their property for this photo shoot.

I pass several barns around here in my town and have been thinking about getting a model and setting something up. Small jobs here and there have been keeping me busy but I have never gotten around to setting things up like I had to do with this set.

First of all, I had given Renee some criteria for what she should be dressed in and she showed up in exactly what I had in mind and made everything go by so much smoother. Having my girlfriend and a friend of mine there to help also didn't hurt,so HUGE! thanks to them also.

Last but not least these past few weeks a friend and I have been in talks of setting up a few projects for ourselves to benefit our portfolios.We have some wonderful ideas in store and I'm looking forward to getting this out to the public as soon as I get the chance! Basically we'll be shooting some faux ads. These ads will help build my portfolio, Paul' s, and those of the models/makeup artists/hair dressers we may be using; will let me expand on my skills and style as a photographer; and give me a great amount of creative freedom. If things go as planned you should be looking at about a couple dozen of new images by the end of the summer! Wish me luck lol.

It's been a while,but I'm keeping busy...

Wow...long time no blog post huh...

Where do I start? Lets see, there's no reason for me to talk about what happened in April, considering there wasn't really much activity that month. But man, once May came around the proverbial ball of creativity was rolling. My birthday came around on the 8th and my girlfriend and I headed down to Seaside Heights (no fist pumping involved by the way). The beach, be it freezing cold or blazing hot, is a great place to collect yourself and get the creative juices flowing. From then on, May was filled with random hikes through the woods, scouting locations, and shooting what great things came my way. So much of my work was inspired by the growth of greenery around my location. Spring and the start of Summer never cease to amaze me in the amount of colors they respectively bring with them. Even after a rainy day, it's hard for me to stay inside and not enjoy what is out there for me to photograph. Example: for about 16 years or so, I've been passing a patch of amazing scenery and it finally tempted me enough to take a hike and capture a part of what it has to show. I parked the car about 100 yards from where I needed to be and spent an hour hiking that 100 yards! The greenery was up to my chest in most parts and it was apparent that not a single human being has been in that area in years. The moment I captured does not even come close to doing the scene justice. Spring is an amazing season.

Anyway, a trip to a reservoir and a forest-seldom-seen later, I'm on the verge of photographing a model at one of my scouted locations. It's going to be a traditional American Farm shoot and I even plan on posting up a 'behind the scenes' video of sorts to put up on facebook and on my website. It'll give you an inside look of what it's like to be in a shoot with yours truly. Hopefully everything goes as planned and I blog post again at some point next week.

Until then be on the lookout and keep creative.