Lady In The Water

In May I got the honor of seeing Kat graduate with her Master's from University of Houston! Seriously, it one of the best moments and weekends ever. Seeing Kat achieve something so awesome was great especially since when we met she was just out of freshman year of college. I'm SO excited to see what my girl does in the next few years! Not to mention a lot more time to see one another and come up with more crazy photo adventures. This one in particular we had a to jump the fence to the pool...but I had my heart set on it as soon as I saw the flowers.

Just Like Heaven

A little over a month ago, I got the honor of taking pictures of my good friend and ex coworker, Callie! She's so fun and adorably pint sized so I jumped at the chance of getting to take her picture. These pictures make me think of how warm it was that day and failed attempts to keep cool in between outfit changes. I've always been so drawn to her punky style (normally she's in far more black). Her first look instantly made me think of The Cure...I mean, it's all about the hat. 

I can't wait to make a trip up to Denton soon to see her! 

Back By Popular Demand

It's been some time since I shot Allyson and Andrew together. I was thrilled when Ally told me he was in town and we had him meet up with us immediately! These two always having me laughing, so much so that it's hard to stay completely focused on what I'm doing ;) I don't mind for a second.

Obviously I'm really into color and movement right now. There really isn't anything like a fresh color wall which is a pretty frequent thing around here.

The B Sides

I recently (more like finally) obtained Photoshop and Lightroom from Adobe for $9.99 a month by signing up for Creative Cloud. At first I thought the offer was well...you know, too good to be true. It's definitely really good and a very true deal plus it's vaild until March 31st! 

I've been going through some older photos I never touched and having both these tools have made my editing far better. It's like being about to put something into words for the first the time. I will say that my editing process is slower now but far more rewarding. I'm extremely excited to do some new shoots in the near future! On top of working on the video editing skills, there's a lot to look forward to around here. 

I pushed myself into taking some self portraits today. I love light and shadows, always have. After a very stressful semester it's really nice to relax a little and let go.

Final Project

I'm working on my Final Project for my photography class in school. Honestly, it's freaking me out way more then it should. Today I got everything all figured out, traded some paper and ended up making 4 out of the 10 prints I need. I still have to figure out mounting but I'm SO happy with the results so far. It actually makes the me a little sad that the semester is over. But since I have a few extras I'm going to be opening a print shop for some of them.

Here are the 4 prints I got done today. I'm hoping to have the whole set done but Wednesday and mounting finished in a week!

A quick update:

I've been making the prints for my final project and it's going goood! Some paper aside, I'm happy with the results. I'll probably be making more extras then I've been meaning to. I think after the holiday season (mainly for time purposes: having a retail job in the holiday season, ugh.) I want to maybe sell some limited prints? Maybe even frame them if I can. I would consider if anyone's interested.

I'm also working really hard on getting a site going some time in January and having some commission prices but only time will tell. I'm really happy and inspired by all the awesome feedback I've been getting!

This is all definitely a work in progress but I'm working hard.

Over Exposed

I am updating for Austin! Obviously one of my favorite places to be. Anyways, it was Audrey's 20th birthday on Thursday so I made an impromptu trip on Wednesday night. Of course, I had other things on my mind, mainly my final project for my photo class. We joked around about doing something risque for it and we don't normally joke about something without being half serious. I'm so proud of Audrey for letting me take these! Honestly, I feel like we were both overcoming a lot with this shoot. We were both very vulnerable but I'm anticipating the outcome will be amazing. Most of what was done was shot on film for my class so those will take a while for me to develop and sort through but we took a couple test on my digital. So feast your eyes; she does look very beautiful.

Film

Film and I, well, we've got a love/hate relationship. It's really the money and waiting that I hate. Even getting film developed at Walgreen's is a bit pricey and finding a dark room...well not everyone has one (although that would be awesome). Plus, I'm all about instant gratification! So not being able to see anything right after I take picture kind of bothers me. But the outcome of film is just like nothing else. When I produce a print, I feel like it's hand crafted and it's far more personal then replicating a digital file.

Yeah, film has stolen my heart..again.

(these are prints I made today. one day I'll figure out a way to scan prints but for now there have been taken with my iPhone, of course.)