February 2010
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Photo Shoot: Mandi
Over the course of two days and after nearly two thousand snaps of my shutter, Mandi’s set wrapped. This was certainly the most epic photographic exploration I have had to date. Mandi was the second model for the Tokyo Leather project and was shot to be our edgy look. And edgy it was.
We were blessed with great weather on both days. The first day threatened rain but never quite got around...
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Photo Shoot: Catherine
My good friend and expert creative at Wieden + Kennedy in Tokyo, Oyl, was home for the holiday season and had a project that needed photographing. While in Japan he had created a cool little fashion accessory and he wanted to market it as “a slice of Portland” in the Tokyo fashion world. A craigslist and Facebook post later got some great responses and we chose two to shoot - Catherine...
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Photo Shoot: Saron
Well, the slideshow from this shoot has been up for a little while, but I suppose I should tell you more about it. This shoot was pretty cool for a number of reasons, but the most important one was that I had a makeup artist “on set” for the first time. Now, I mentioned shooting with significant others or friends (or bodyguards?) on set and how that can be very distracting and...
January 2010
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Photo Shoot: Sibyl
The meth edition. That should be the subtitle of this shoot. But actually, it was much more than that. Sibyl is an actress here in Portland that I met on the set of Bank Run, an interactive iPhone movie and game by friends SilkTricky. By pure happenstance, I actually had met Sibyl (and her kids) a couple weeks prior while walking my dog by her kids’ school but we made the connection on set....
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Photo Shoot: Rebeca
The shoot with Rebeca was of the quick, easy, fun variety. I posted an ad on Craigslist Friday night because it just felt like Saturday morning was going to have amazing light. And if there is amazing light, you should shoot in it. Rebeca responded first and we planned to meet up in Northwest Portland, grab some coffee, and shoot something fun.
As expected, the light was amazing, but it was...
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Photo Shoot: Identity:Me
This post could also be titled, “Working for the Man.” But not because it was some sort of sellout thing. It was just a “client” operation. For my part, I did not have much creative control beyond getting the lens in the right place. The models were picked, the wardrobe was decided upon, and the coffee came from Starbucks. (I have nothing against Starbucks per se, but if...
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Photo Shoot: Karri (Las Vegas)
The afternoon brought Karri. And an unfortunate circumstance. Rebecca had been on vacation and took a dive head-first into the ground, leaving her with scratches not suitable to shoot. So, it was up to Karri to make my Vegas trip awesome. No pressure.
Despite a rough patch of communication to start (we were supposed to meet at 1, but ended up meeting at 3), Karri finally made her way to my hotel...
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Photo Shoot: Elizabeth (Las Vegas)
After a crazy first night in L.V., I woke up early to get ready for my shoot with Elizabeth. Actually, let me rephrase that slightly. After taking a two-hour nap, I rolled out of bed to get coffee and a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit from McDonald’s.
With new found (albeit caffeine-induced) energy, I sat in our lobby waiting for Elizabeth to show. I had no clue where we were going to shoot,...
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Shooting on Vacation
So one of my very best friends (since fourth grade)—really my fourth brother—Rick, had just gotten back stateside from serving in the Army in Iraq right around Thanksgiving. And what else do you do when your friend comes back from war? You go to Vegas. The plan was to play a whole lot of poker … and not talk about anything else that happened (of course).
But, I also saw an...
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Photo Shoot: Lindsae
My good friend Lindsae was kind enough to help me out with my project as well. She also needed some cool photographs for her website (oh, by the way, I designed it). It was also cool just to hang out with someone fun and creative. Lindsae is an incredibly talented actress here in Portland (and that’s not just a bias, check out her reel on her site).
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Update: Photo Embedding on Your Blog
Much like publishing your photographs in physical form, being able to embed photographs in your blog is a very important aspect to marketing yourself as a photographer.
Unfortunately, I have yet to figure this out. Ha.
Thank you all for your patience as I get this kink ironed out. I should have everything running smoothly in the next couple days.
+Joe+
Update: Oh, I figured it out. For as much...
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Publishing Your Photographs
Getting started with this whole photography thing, to this point, had been pretty great. Sure, there were some bumps along the way, but all-in-all, very positive. One of the particularly uplifting things was finding a great way to get my photographs published without having to drop a ton of cash.
One of the true wonders in this world is the ability of the Internet to find exactly what one needs...
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Photo Shoot: Jade
This shoot was the result of some karmatic goodness. At least, that’s how I’m choosing to think of it. Just after shooting Lindsey I was feeling pretty good about where my project (Dialogues) was going. I was even starting to flush out ideas for future projects. I was contacted by a model, Tyler, and we set up a time to meet.
Let me start the story of meeting Tyler by saying that she...
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Photo Shoot: Lindsey
Shoot number two was Lindsey and I couldn’t have hoped for a better model to work with for my second shoot. Despite a location goof on my part (not knowing exactly where the heck we were going), we got to our site on a great overcast day.
Lindsey was very experienced and very prepared. Her and I had met a few days earlier for coffee to chat about the project and discuss any ideas we had....
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Photo Shoot: Crysta
After the inauspicious start to my photography career, I was able to set up another shoot with Crysta for the following weekend. She was super apologetic and right on time for our next rendezvous.
This time around, while waiting, I didn’t have near the apprehension I had the previous week. I figured at this point, I just needed to get something done. Once Crysta showed up, we got to work....
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The First Shoot ... Or So I Thought
Before we get to the actual shoot, some interesting things happened that were very important for me to learn and I am glad they happened at the beginning of all this. The first was with Genna.
Genna was the first to respond to my ad and I decided pretty quickly that she would be perfect. Her look was exactly what I had in mind for the project and her email to me relayed the fact that she was very...
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From The Beginning
If you haven’t read my first post, do that real quick right now. That will catch you up on some basic information that you may want to know before reading anything else. It’s kind of like the beginning of LOST—“Previously on fotografique…”
Alright, now that you’re caught up, let’s go back to the beginning. My decision to start getting into...
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FotoGrafique Launches
Due to several requests from fans of my work as a photographer, I am opening up a new blog to hopefully provide a little insight into my work as a photographer, some interesting stories and encounters I have along the way, and maybe even some tips and tricks for other aspiring photographers to use along the way.
Before you begin, you’ll want to know some stuff about me:
Although I took a...