More photos from the shoot yesterday...

I started going through all of the photos that I shot yesterday and was incredibly happy with the outcome. I experimented a little bit with the editing and am glad that I did because I think they came out really cool. I also through in a shot of just some of my peer photographers who also attended the shoot. The models were so great to work with. The blond model below is Nicole Frechette who is a country singer and a complete natural in front of the camera. The other two girls, Kara and Jaimee, are actually sisters and funny enough my brother knows one of them. What a small world. We also had the opportunity to shoot Justin & Mary at the Uconn Law School Campus, it was a great time!! Nonetheless, here are some more of the photos that I captured. Enjoy!!

Shooting Seminar with Steve & Carla

Today I attended a seminar put on by Carla Ten Eyck & Steve Depino up at Carla's studio in Hartford. It was a great energy packed day. We had the opportunity to shoot some really great models in some challenging locations. I was psyched because I really got to give my new 85 1.2 lens a workout before Laura & Chris' wedding on Saturday. There were about 25 other photographers at this seminar. Here are some of my photos from the shoots today. I am off too sleep as I am incredibly tired, I hope everyone has a great night!!

Headshots by [b]ecker - Video

While in Vegas, I met up with a bunch of really cool people to have some free headshots done by Becker. It turned into more of a networking thing than anything else, but it was a ton of fun. You can read more about this on my previous post. But today, I found that Becker posted a video slideshow on one of his blogs. I was very happy to see that I made it into the video multiple times, check it out HERE.

Meeting [b]ecker in Paris

On Monday Kathleen & I got to meet the one and only Becker at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. He was taking portraits of anyone who wanted a portrait taken and doing it for free. How cool is that?! I was even able to help him with a setting on the new 1DS Mark III. Here are some of the shots from the meeting, I shot one of Kathleen being photographed by Becker and couldn't resist being in a fun one with Becker himself. Once I get the shots that he took, I will be sure to blog those as well.

Vegas & Southern California Here We Come!! (3/13 - 3/19)

I just wanted to drop you all a quick note (for those of you who don't know) that Kathleen and I are going out to Vegas for the annual WPPI Convention. Before WPPI starts I will be photographing Jeff & Katie's engagement session all around Vegas and then heading out to Southern CA to shoot a wedding formal session and then Matt & Melissa's engagement session afterwards . I will make sure I post some photos as soon as I get a chance.

Anyways we are heading out tomorrow (Thursday 3/13) and returning on (Wednesday 3/19). I will be returning all e-mails and voicemails when we return. I hope everyone has a great week and weekend. Remember if you are going to be out in Vegas, give me a call and we can meet up!!

WPPI Anyone?

Hey Everyone! I just wanted to see who going out to WPPI in Vegas this year? Drop me a line to let me know whos in and we can all meet up!! Hope to see a lot of you out there!!

Back from Tampa

So I know I said I would blog a lot earlier but I got so caught up with the ImagingUSA Convention that I got behind. Anyways we saw some incredible photographers while out in Florida. I got to hear talks from Joe Buissink (amazing celebrity wedding photographer), Howard Schatz (out of this world under water photographer), Doug Gordon, Kevin Kubota, David Jay and many others. I meet up with the album company I use, Kambara USA and got to see all the new products and ideas out there in the photography industry. I really have some great things coming up this year, so definetely stay tuned.

But for now, I would like to share some more fun pictures from our trip. We went to this one burger place called Big Mouth Burger where they had amazing onion rings and fries (see below) but also had some very fun artwork on the wall. Tampa to me was like a mix between Miami and New Orleans. There were parts of the town that had cobblestone streets and and modren buildings. I also thought the trolley system was interesting, brought an old school feel to the town.

As always, Kathleen made appearences in some of the photos. Here are some the pics.

ImagingUSA in Tampa

So this morning at about 3am, Kathleen & I headed to JFK airport to make the trip down to Tampa, FL for the ImagingUSA Convention sponsered by Professional Photographers of America (PPA) in which I am a part of. We arrived to some really nice weather. There are photographers everywhere and I am looking forward to going to some really great sessions beginning tomorrow morning at 7am. I am going to go see aweseome photographers like David Jay, Kevin Kubota and Doug Gordon among many others.

Since we had some extra time today, Kathleen and I decided to go see the city. They have a very cool trolley public transportation system that took us all over. We found this old part of town that had a feel like Miami and New Orleans combined. While we were their I found this very cool alley way where I shot some photos of Kathleen. Now we are going to call it a night and play a couple hands of cards.

Here are a few pictures from the day, I will be sure to have more tomorrow.