I'm a (gulp) Wedding Photographer (?!?!?)

Yeah, I know. I said NEVER AGAIN. I said WORST JOB EVER. I said a lot of things.

Well, after being sweet-talked into shooting two weddings for friends last year, I've decided that it's not THAT bad after all. So I'm going to throw up a wedding website and 'test the waters.' I'm not going full-time with this, just a handful a year... but enough to help pay the bills and maybe help me get some better equipment.

Thinking about marketing myself as a 'boutique' wedding photographer but I hate that word. I need to figure out how to explain to potential customers that they're not going to get 'selective color effects' or 'soft focus' with me. I'll just lie and say that my camera doesn't do that. :o)

As always, critique and comments ENCOURAGED. Also encouraged are referrals. HA!

-karen

and this next one is a little 'inappropriate'

Fashion shoot (last two images)

Hey all,

Here are the last two images from my fashion spread for the alumni mag @ the college (see original post below for first four images). Once again, please honestly critique. And thanks so much again for the feedback you've already given. You guys are a great sounding board (or maybe seeing board?)! THANK YOU!

The Sky Is On Fire

The weatherman says that we are going to get rain today here in the Phoenix area, so there are dramatic clouds in the sky this morning which made for a gorgeous sunrise from my front patio/courtyard. It made the horizon and sky look like it was on fire.


(click on the image to enlarge)

We'll see if the day actually brings any real rain, but it certainly started out with some great color.

This is an HDR composite of 3 images (-2ev, 0ev, +2ev) using Photomatix Pro to process the images.

Have a great day,
David Gralian
http://www.davidgralian.com/
david@davidgralian.com

Hey all,

Wanted to share with you my latest project for the alumni magazine (these photos haven't been published yet, so.... shhhh.) We challenged six alumni fashion designers to design a garment based on one of the schools within the college (e.g., the School of Business, the School of the Arts, the School of Humanities, etc), then found student models for each shoot. Attached are the first four shots.

This is the first time I've done fashion. I found it DIFFICULT! I went into this thinking fashion would be a creatively freeing kind of shooting, but actually felt very limited right away. No spontaneous shooting here: instead of that spontaneous moment I always look to capture, I had to meticulously pose each model so the garment was shown in its best light (literally and figuratively). I'm not sure why this surprised me. =0)

Anywho... please honestly critique. Good... bad... what I did well... what I could have improved? I'd appreciate it!

Will post the final two images when they're shot.

Thanks all!

Hope you had a great holiday!

Leslie