Nothing worse than having your spot on the couch stolen by a couch thief.
and then when you try and regain your spot you’re given the guilt trip. Takes “puppy dog eyes” to an all new level.
Fine – I’ll have my morning coffee at the kitchen table.
Life, The Universe, and Everything
Mark’s Misc Monday – Catherine’s Commercial Test
So while my focus is on being the best wedding photographer I can be and capturing those amazing moments, I also do some commercial and model portfolio building work from time to time. I was looking for a model in her late teens, early twenties for a young college aged look and most importantly I needed someone who could connect with the camera and be expressive. I think Catherine did a great job and hope to see her around the studio again for some commercial work from time to time.
Until next time,
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Aspen Wedding Arch
I’ve had a few people comment about the wonderful and rustic aspen wedding arch that was featured in Stephanie and Don’s wedding a few weeks ago. Well it turns out Stephanie’s Uncle Kevin owns Superior Carpentry and custom builds some items like this. So if you’re planning a Colorado wedding and want to include something like this drop Uncle Kevin an email for more information.
superiorcarpentry@hotmail.com
Until next time,
Mark
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Miscellaneous Mondays – and know for something completely different
While the bulk of my work is for my wedding clients from time to time other clients wish to make use of my skills, one such client being Denver designer and artist Jessica of J-Chans Designs. Jessica’s work is always over the top on the creative factor and this session was no different.
If you watched season 1 of RuPaul’s Drag Race you may recognize the client model for this session, Jade. The outfit designed for Jade by Jessica was inspired by the Jennifer Lopez outfit in “The Cell“.
So why does a Colorado Wedding Photographer shoot creative fashion in his spare time. Well for one reason it’s fun, and for another it’s a great chance to experiment a little with lighting that I can later translate and use for my wedding clients.
The shots below where not shot in a studio, but rather the home of the designer. The background is simply red and black fabric and lighting was managed not with studio strobes but rather two Canon speedlites. Nether speedlite was mounted to the camera, instead both where off camera, one in a shoot through umbrella for a main direction light and the other pointed into the rooms corner to provide a light and even fill.
So while the styling and background is different, these fashion looks where achieved with the same camera, lens and most important lighting, that I bring to every wedding and reception.
Miscellaneous Monday – Whispers
I first met Brittni Lynn back in May of 2006. I was working on a slightly Irish themed series of commercial images and she had a wonderful combination of lovely red hair and the cutest freckles. The commercial shots where a success and more than a few Saint Patrick’s Day advertisements have featured those images, but a few of them struck a cord and where reworked into something a little more dark and moody, and this launched a art collection of images I called “Whispers”.
Whispers is introspective, quiet, hints, softness, questioning, solitary.
The editing style I’ve chosen for this collection is largely inspired by the Holga camera and high grain black and white. While shot in color these images have been processed through special (and rather expensive) filters that not only convert to black and white but rebuild the image using authentic grain structure of various black and white films. It really is as close to shooting on black and white film as you can get with a digital camera.
So for this Miscellaneous Monday I present the first thee images, and the images that started, the Whisper Collection.
Miscellaneous Monday is a new feature in which I’ll be sharing some of my personal artwork. Much of this will be from digging into my personal art collections from over the last few years as well as more recent creations.
Fine art prints and optional framing as well as fine art canvas prints are available for sale online at: http://photos.markhp.com/whispers
Technical Data:
Shot with a Canon 20D – an amazing camera for it’s time and still serves as one of my backup cameras that I take out to weddings. I don’t use it often anymore but it’s good to have around just in case. Lens for these where I believe the Canon 85mm F1.8 lens. Another item that while I’ve upgraded to the F1.2 for my main 85mm, I still keep this older version around. It focuses faster than the 1.2 and is still tack sharp and the F1.8 still allows for some excellent low light work.
