What is a professional photographer?
One of the questions that I tend to shy away from, is the “what makes someone a professional photographer†I’ve shied away from this for the simple fact that there are many different ways to qualify a “Professional Photographer†Today, I was talking to a friend of mine and she was telling about a pro photog friend of hers, who wasn’t getting image comments that she liked, so she took all her photos down. Is this how a pro should act? IMHO, no, not at all.
The comments I’m going to make next are qualifiers that I use to determine a “Professional Photographerâ€. In no way, shape or form, should this list be taken as the end all, be all of what is or is not a pro, just my observation.
Kansas II
Hey guys,
Getting back into the habit of posting every few days, I'm far from being caught up (Still have shots from Carlotta ChampagneWorkshop hah) but as long as I have something to share right? right haha.
All day Friday in Kansas, I spent teaching one on one and small group shoots. Saturday I spent teaching the workshop and ended up going home late Saturday. The workshop was smiple, get great shots using minimal equipment. For most of the shots at the workshop, we used one strobe. We shot on a pure white backdrop and let the backdrop fall gray.
Tecs:
Canon EOS 5d
Photogenic PLR1250DR
Diffusion Panel
Cassie II
Welp,
It's been a full 48 hours and I've not suffered any nerve damage or haven't died from the Swine Flu vaccine. Yay. Here's some more photos of Cassie from this summer. Cassie was supposed to go to a workshop, but bailed. She's not talked to me since and that's ok. She's a pretty young lady, I'd like to shoot her again maybe.
Specs:
Canon EOS 5D
Photogenic AKC/B320 For outdoor photo
Photogenic PLR1250DR
Photogenic 24 inch silver beauty dish
High School Seniors
As part of a PPA Super Monday class of which none of the ppa guys showed up because PPA didn't get their crap right and kept the old date and old theme, I had shooting high school seniors the way I shoot them. It was 8 hours of shooting and learning and by the end of the day, the guys were wiped out! The first four hours were of shooting, the last four was marketing and sales.
Here's some of the images I took. They just don't make seniors the way they were when I was growing up! I told one of the moms that and she said "I agree! I had to have kids before my boobs ere her size" LOL
Tech:
Canon EOS 5D
Photogenic PLR1250DR
Photogenic 24" Silver Beauty Dish
Redemption
After my last blog entry, I've been feeling the need to redeem myself lol.
Shot of T.L. taken about two years ago when I just got my shinny new 40d. Looking at these photos makes me miss it, I think after the new year, I'm going to get a couple of 7d's. Will suck to not have the full frame of the 5d, but I'll keep my 5d
Almost to the Carlotta Champagne shoot!
Hey guys,
Almost caught up to the April Carlotta Champagne shoot lol. Took a break to review the images worth editing and decided to clean one up. This image was taken with a Photogenic PL1250DR and a Photogenic Beauty Dish up high. Nothing for fill, just harsh shadows. Carlotta's skin is almost a milky white, so I enjoy editing her photos to make them all white.
Danika
Hey guys,
Sorry it's been so long since I've posted, I'm working on a HUUUGE workshop in May 2010 and that's been taking up all my time. My wife got on me about not updating Club SuperShoot blog, wanting me to put more photos on there. We're keeping that site no nudes, so I went through my images looking for non nude images. Came across Danika. She came in to shoot test images for a magazine. I fell out of contact with the mag but will contact them again since I have some images to show them now lol.
Here she is:
More beauty edushoot photos from me
Here are a few more images I've cleaned up from the Beauty EduShoot. This EduShoot was a total success and fun was had by all. Here's some of the models and some of the things they had to say:
Reese GSM: "Thanks, Jay! It's always so great to work with you! Sunday was awesome, both shooting and hanging out!"
Kirsten: "THANK YOU!!! that was a TON of fun and I sooo cant wait to see some of those photos! and the other models and mua were all great to work with. I agree! September needs to hurry up! =)"
Megan: "I had a ton of fun, again! Can't wait for September's shoot to roll around =)"
Fun was had by all! and LEARNING happened!
More samples from my Chicago workshop!
Here's a few more images taken at my Chicago workshop. These were taken by each photographer respectively:
eugenefelix
Sapanahuja photography:
Urban Hues Images
Every photo was taken with various cameras and:
1 Photogenic PLR1250DR shooting using a bookend setup
or
1 Photogenic PL1250DR strobe using a Photogenic Beauty Dish (Photogenic Silver 24" Beauty Dish)
This weekend and today has been GREAT!!
I started this weekend off feeling blah, then Saturday came and I had three EXCELLENT shoots! Three GREAT models and a ton of fun. Sunday rolls around and one model flakes on me at the last minute, but the other model follows through and she's ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL woman! I ended today's business day shooting a girl soooo sweet....and beautiful, that I just couldn't handle it.
G*D I love my job sometimes!
Here's two models that will be at the workshop this saturday. We're doing a beauty shoot.
