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Getting the Most out of a Shoot

06 Wednesday Apr 2016

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The earlier shoot with a model and some planes at WAAAM, was a resounding success in all but one criteria. Thank you, Sami Van Der Westhuizen, Carrie Strahle, Ken Olsson, and WAAAM. That one criteria was the number of unique images brought home from the shoot. This was a result of the weather interfering with some of our planned shots, being late in arriving on location, and the lack of coming up with ideas myself. This blog post, I intend to tell you how I tried to improve on this last issue on a subsequent shoot.

Step one, and the best way to do it, is to plan many different looks while you are planning the logistics of the shoot. If you look at the gallery of the entire shoot, all of the images you don’t see in the slide show at the beginning of this article, were part of the plan from the beginning. This is the best way to plan multiple looks as you have time to consider them carefully, and not have your crew sit around bored while you think up stuff.

The other method is to be very observant while on location and use the surroundings and behavior of your model as inspiration for new ideas. The best example of that in this particular scenario is the images you see of Alex relaxing in her kayak. We took a break for me to think of new ideas and while I was thinking she used her kayak as a place to take a load off and relax. I thought it looked like a great shot, so stopped the break and started shooting.

Overall, I was ecstatic how this worked, the only thing I felt bad about was that some of the times I took a moment to think up some shots, I think I bored the crew a bit. The results are great though.

Take a look at the complete gallery of paddler at St. John’s Bridge, or my portrait portfolio.

More Oregon Covered Bridge Photos

19 Wednesday Dec 2012

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In November, I continued to photograph Oregon’s covered bridges. These bridges make for wonderful subjects; iconic, evocative, and often in photogenic locations.

One thing I definitely learned with them in November is that some subjects are definitely better photographed at some times of the year rather than others. At the beginning of the month, we still were in the stages of a kiss of Fall color on an otherwise green setting. These circumstances led to great photos, even if I would’ve preferred a little more Fall color. By the end of the month, the trees were mostly without leaves and anything but white skies became rare. This led to significantly less attractive images, so much so that I decided to put off photographing more covered bridges until Spring or we get snow with all the right circumstances to allow me to get to the bridge to photograph.

Take a closer look at these covered bridge photos, look at the earlier covered bridge photos, or look at my landscape portfolio.

 

St. John’s Bridge in Portland, Oregon

11 Tuesday Sep 2012

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Lately, I’ve been photographing man made landmarks in addition to my natural landscapes. Such things as lighthouses, bridges, capitol buildings, etc., are providing me with as much fun as photographing mountains and the like, when in the right light.

Thus, when a photographer I met through aviation photographer, Nicholas Bielemeier, posted a picture of St. John’s Bridge on his facebook page, I was very intrigued. He graciously shared with me what city park, Cathedral Park, to find the vantage point from his photo.

So, I went there one day about twenty minutes before sunrise. What a fabulous place. One can walk right to the shore of the river. There are a multitude of vantage points around the park and I don’t believe I ever used the specific vantage point that Nicholas had used. I had planned to, but I couldn’t quite find it before the beautiful morning light was over. This isn’t because it was a hard vantage point to find, but it because I spent so much time photographing at the other places.

If you’re into this sort of photography, I suggest you check this location out. Also, take a closer look at my early morning St. John’s Bridge photos.