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A taste of Maine Portraiture

earl — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:39:07 +0000

I joined the Shoot Style crew in Ogunquit Maine for a posing workshop headed by Michelle Turner. It was a little chilly, but that didn’t cool our enthusiasm. Here are a few shots from the day:

Valentines Fun

earl — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:00:53 +0000

Every couple of months, ShootStyle, an association of New England wedding photographers I belong to runs an assignment series asking photographers to creatively illustrate a concept. In honor of valentine’s day, the most recent assignment was to illustrate the concept of ‘Done Me Wrong.” Thanks to my wife for playing along!

Sadly, after shooting she went away for a few days and when she returned, the oversized box of candy used as the prop was more the half gone. She had to throw out the rest to save me from myself!

ShootStyle in Mystic Connecticut

earl — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:31:33 +0000

Me and my fellow ShootStylers organized a model shoot this past weekend just before the Mystic 5 photography conference. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the model I worked with:

You can see more of the group’s shots on the ShootStyle blog.

Off-Beat Back Bay Engagement Sessions á la ShootStyle

earl — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:03:58 +0000

Me and five other members of ShootStyle team (Stacey Doyle, Jamie Wexler, Michelle Turner, Zofia Waig, and Andree Kehn) got together to try something a little different. We’ve been shooting a lot of fabulous women in fashionable wedding dresses, but we realized we’ve neglected the guys. So for our latest shoot, we grabbed a bunch of couples and headed downtown for a shoot that was part engagement session and part “trash the dress.”

Below are some of my favorite shots from the day. To see more amazing work, jump over to the Shoot Style fan page on FaceBook and peruse the other ShootStyler’s blogs!

The first couple I worked with, Jackie & David, were up for anything I asked them to do, and often took things a bit farther. They were a riot!

I only enough time to do a couple of setups with Rachel & Adam. Rachel, you might have noticed, is a ShootStyle alumni, having modeled for us on our Elm Bank shoot. Adam was a great sport! Cheers you two!

2 Photographers – 2 Visions

earl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:25:32 +0000

Last weekend Andree (Maine Wedding Photographer) invited me to return to the shores of Sebago Lake in Maine. We had a developed a pretty good working rhythm during our last shoot together, and for most of the day, we each did our own thing and came away with two unique views of the same event. During a quiet moment, we asked the couple to pose in front a classic New England setting–a shack which was covered with old buoys.

Andree moved in close enough to see the weathering of the old buoys and threw the couple out of focus in the background:

I shot the couple through a bush with a plastic lens, framing the them against the wall.

I think that having the same couple, the same setting, the same light, and two shots taken within seconds of each other, really illustrates how two photographers will visualize the same subject differently.

Vive la différence!

All about the details

earl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:15:08 +0000

I travelled north to help a fellow Shootstyle member and Maine wedding photographer, Andree Kehn with a cool wedding she had at a perennial farm. Instead of couples kissing and other shots your see on blogs everyday, I am just showing details we shot from this wedding. If you take a good look at these images, you can tell a lot about the couple and almost everything about the wedding. This was a super fun day. Let us know if you can guess anything about the day.

Migis Lodge on Sebago Lake in Maine

earl — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:29:23 +0000

This weekend I headed up to Maine to work with Maine Wedding Photographer extraordinaire, Andree Kehn. Andree is lucky enough to live right near the venue, Migis Lodge. It’s a small lodge on the banks of Sebago Lake in Casco that tends to have weddings in the Spring and Fall and reunions and get-togethers during the high season. Andree told me this works out great for her as most of her clientele gets married outside. In the Spring and Fall they need a venue that gives them an option to escape in side if the weather gets nasty or cold. The weather was perfect for us however. What I love about working with Andree is that she gives me free reign to do anything I want when taking pictures. So at this event I walked far away from the ceremony looking for angles that put the service in context of this peaceful setting. I also tried out new lighting equipment, and shot from balconies and lying on the floor. I was very happy with the images.

Here is the album design Andree presented to the couple, that showcases both our images equally!