Britt Blog

White Sand

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:05:18 +0000

Taylor was dreaming of some beach shots for the second part of her senior session a couple of weeks ago. Regular sand is easy to come by, but I don’t care for the look of it. In keeping with my theme of “only the best for my clients,” I wanted white sand, so that took a little more doing. Here’s one of my favorites. I think the white sand was well worth the effort.

Aly

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:11:33 +0000

Here’s one of my favorites from Aly’s senior session.

Kaylee

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:35:13 +0000

I just got this cool candle backdrop in last week and we tried it out in Kaylee’s session. I love the contrast of the candle lighting to the bright sunlit natural light images I shoot.

Jessica

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:41:20 +0000

Here’s a fun one of Jessica with her cat, Fluffy. Fluffy was like Goldilocks in the studio. We tried a couple of different chairs that Fluffy did not like before finding one that Fluffy found just right.

Janessa

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:25:16 +0000

Wow, has it ever been busy around here! I have lots of session images to catch up on posting. Here are a couple from Janessa’s session. The first is with her dog, Miley.

Leaf Lace

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:04:26 +0000

Some leaves that Ada and I picked up on a walk last Sunday.

Thompson Family

admin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:36:00 +0000

We shot plenty of “normal” family portraits (where everyone is in focus), but I couldn’t resist some fun ones during the Thompson family session. Here are a couple of favorites.

Ashley

admin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:57:10 +0000

Here’s one of Ashley’s cheering and trophy pictures which I particularly loved along with one of Ashley’s casual outfits.

Range

admin — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:40:38 +0000

It’s always important to me to get a range of mood, expressions and styles in a session. Here are a couple of images that I particularly loved from Noel’s recent session. We’ll remove the braces from images that Noel chooses.

The Eyes Have It

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:02:34 +0000

The most frequent comment I hear is about the eyes of my subjects. Some people wonder what I’m doing to them (post-processing in Photoshop) and some people just think I’m obsessed with eyes. My answers to those questions are “nothing” and “perhaps.”

I think the way eyes are lit in a photo makes a big difference in the mood of the photo. And one thing I’ve always liked about natural lighting (if well done) is that the eyes tend to have a lot of light in them, so that the pupils are small and more of the iris shows. In studio, typically, the pupils are larger, because it is more dim in the studio than in a natural light studio. This leaves only a small rim of iris showing, and is the look most of us are accustomed to from school photos and traditional studio portraits, but not the way we generally see one another, thus some of the artificiality of studio lit portraits. “Artificial” can be cool and different, so I don’t mean that in a bad way.

In the natural light studio, I can position the person so that their eyes are literally filled with light. The effect is often dazzling, and I generally can’t help but comment on it. So, yeah, maybe I am a bit obsessed.

Anyway, here’s an example from a recent session with Jordan in which I’m sure people will think I’ve done something to alter or amplify the color of his eyes, and which I assure you I did nothing other than make use of the sweet light in the natural light studio.

Ah let me count the ways I love the natural light studio. First, the light is beautiful. Second, it is air conditioned.