Second shooting a wedding for a photographer friend

     
           Last week I was asked by Samantha Turco (an old photo school friend) if I could be her second shooter for a wedding because the person she had as a second shoot had bailed on her.  I had a commitment the night of the wedding, but I agreed to help her since she really needed the help.

            While Sam photographed the bride and her party getting ready, my job was to photograph the groom, his father, and friends getting ready.  When I got to the room where they were located, they were all ready and just sitting around doing nothing.  I started shooting but I really didn't have much to work with since the images where all coming out the same; just guys sitting around.  So I decided I would walk around with a Canon 580EX II Speedlite on a stand get some portraits done to get some more interesting images.  Those portraits ended up being my favorites and here are some that I liked the most.

Travel Photograph Wednesday - Guatemala

Rio Dulce, Guatemala.

2013 Construction at Rhode Island College

              Recently Rhode Island College in Providence has became one of my clients and this summer they had me document all the construction that was happening on the campus.  

Work on the new main road layout

They just built the new Alex and Ani Hall, Art Center

Steam pipe that had to be worked on 

Work on the roof of the Murray Center

New sign

New faculty parking

Travel Photograph Wednesday - Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico.

Yoga Photo Shoot for Esquea Yoga, Therapy & Fitness. Inc.

               Last year I was hired by Esquea Yoga, Therapy & Fitness. Inc. to crate images for their marketing use. I started doing some research and I notice all the image out there look like stock photos and did not stand out.  I decided I wanted to make the images for Esquea Yoga edgy and dramatic so they would stand out in the crowd. 

                

               I wasn't going to go into the shoot with the client and start experimenting this edgy, dramatic idea, that I had no idea what it would look like.  So I set up a test shoot with a friend to see how the image would come out.  We did the test shoot and I felt the images did not work for a commercial form, so I changed my idea to crating strong bright life style shots and making the portraits of Cinthya (Easquea Yoga's owner),  the edgy and dramatic images. 

               For the photographer out there I used a 6 feet shoot through umbrella on the right as key and I bounced a strobe with a small reflector off of the ceiling as fill at about 1/3 of a stop less than the key.  For the  portraits I used the 6 foot through umbrella on the right as key, just out of frame and a strobe with a large reflector with a gridded on the background. 

                Over all the images came out great; they're eye catching, and stand out from the rest of the yoga images out there.  Below are a few image from the test shoot, that I played around with and I think just look cool.

Travel Photograph Wednesday - Nicaragua

Viejo Leon, Nicaragua.

Travel Photograph Wednesday - Guatemala

Flores, Guatemala.