Keith Bryce's Big Bang Photo Shoot!

Such an amazing experience!! I loved this! And, this is probably easily the best work I have ever done! What do you guys think?

Brian Gerber Job Shadow Part One

I had an amazing time on my job shadow last night! I job shadowed Brian Gerber from One World Media. My friend Candice introduced us and helped me set up the whole thing. It was so amazing! He has a studio and does photography, along with commercials, music videos, sound recordings, you name it! He brought in a bunch of his models and set up some lights and let us shoot along with him. It was an amazing experience! I took this picture along with many more! When I have some time to go through them all, I will post some more! :)

Studio Bridals

I asked a bunch of my friends to help me practice some Studio Bridals by having them get all dressed up in their dresses and let me take pictures. I got a lot of responses back so I think I will be getting lots of practice! The top one is Kylie. I am actually doing her wedding for her next month too. The bottom one is Crystal. More to come!! :)

Sisters

Pictures of Food You Would Actually Want to Eat!

I did much better with these in my class today. People said they could see a big improvement and it made people hungry!! :)

Kristin

Last week, I had a model scheduled to come in on Tuesday. The night before, I text her just to confirm that she was still planning on it and she said she couldn't make it. I was so mad! She didn't tell me why she couldn't come and I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't asked! Would she even have told me?!? I sent a message out to a few of my friends saying, "Hey, I know this is way last minute, but my model cancelled on me and I need one for tomorrow. Is there any way you could do it?" Kristin text me back and said, "I'll be there! When do you need me? Where? What do you want me to wear and how do you want my hair?"

This completely made my night! When it has been so hard to find people and to have someone just cancel without even letting me know, this meant SO MUCH to me!

Kristin was such a beautiful model to work with. I have done pictures for her before when she was competing in the Miss Teen Utah pageant. It was fun to work with her again.

Thanks Kristin!! I hope you like the pictures!

I love how they turned out! What do you guys think?

Keith Bryce's Big Band Photo Shoot

I got an e-mail from a fellow Jake Garn workshop attendee telling me about a new workshop being done by Project Runway's Keith Bryce! I just bought my spot! :) It should be similar to the other workshop that I took. I will get high fasion looks, as well as wedding gowns and cocktail dresses! There will be a make-up artist and hair stylist on set, as well as Keith Bryce! I'm excited! This will be on Saturday March 27th, so right after I compete in the state competition of Skills USA. I also have some really cool ideas for photo shoots to come, so be on the look out for some more amazing pictures!!

Jennifer

Last Wednesday, I needed to find someone to come and model for my class, and someone to model for me for my new assignment in People. Finally Jennifer agreed to help me. She doesn't like having her picture taken. She only agreed to help me because I was having a hard time finding people to come do it and she wanted to help me.

Not only did Jennifer come and model for my entire class, she brought a book and read for another hour and a half waiting for me to get out of my second class so that I could have more time to take pictures of her in the studio AND outside.

We were taking pictures from 8:45 am to around 2:30.

It meant so much to me that Jennifer was willing to come and do this for me!! It was so nice of her to just come and do it for me even though she didn't even want to. I like feeling like people think I am important enough that they can take the time to come and help me out with school, especially with how hard this semester has been.

So, sad story though. I was the first person to start taking pictures of Jennifer for my whole class thing. Then I had to rotate to other people, and everyone in my class has to get to everyone else.

After my second class when we got back into the studio, I could tell something was wrong. Jennifer is normally really happy and energetic. When I was working with her the second time, I could tell that she was really stiff, so I asked her what was wrong.

She said that a couple of people in my class had told her that she smiled too big and needed to do pictures without smiling. They didn't mean to hurt her feelings, but they really did. By the second time with me, she was trying hard to not smile.

To fix this problem, this is what I had her do:

She relaxed after that and I was able to get some great pictures of her!! What do you guys think!?? :)