This weekend I got to photograph one of my FAVORITE families in one of my all-time FAVORITE locations!
From Brittainy & Nate’s Wedding…to fun weekend gatherings with their entire clan, it’s ALWAYS a joy to spend time with this very special family!!!
“Just Kenzie Jewelry is a product of the stirrings of my imagination”, writes Mackenzie King. How cool is that?!?
It’s always such a pleasure working with this amazing, talented, beautiful, and giving young lady. From capturing their wedding, to photographing product photos of her wearable art, I always enjoy every shoot we do together!!!
If you’re looking for a fabulous and unique gift for that special someone, even if that someone is yourself, I highly recommend www.justkenzie.com.
Falls Legal, LLC is a boutique employment law firm that represents employees throughout the State of South Carolina. Because they only take on a select number of cases each year, they are able to provide a level of service and attention to detail that larger firms can’t.
It’s been my honor to photograph the Falls Legal Team for the last couple of years. Scott and Ashley work seamlessly together, are true and honest in their dealings with others, and have a genuine heart for helping others! I highly recommend them if you’re ever in need of an employment attorney!!!
POW!!! I blinded myself doing test shots this morning when I was setting up to photograph head-shots for the South Carolina Federal Credit Union! OOPS!!! 🙂
Every year Mellow Mushroom hosts a very special invitation-only event on Super Bowl Sunday!
The celebration is for all their VIP Beer Club Members. They close the whole restaurant for them, serving free beer and pizza to all the guests. Plus of course the Super Bowl is blasting on all the giant LCD screens around the room. It really is an awesome atmosphere and I had a BLAST photographing it for them!!!
Many thanks to my friend and amazing photographer, Adam Chandler, for the referral. 🙂
Last week I had the pleasure of photographing a couple of AMAZING downtown condos for my favorite architecture firm, Solaris Inc.
Their attention to detail, their creativity, and their ingenuity never ceases to amaze me! From TVs hidden inside antique cabinets, to TVs mounted behind bathroom mirrors…it truly is AMAZING what these guys come up with! I love photographing interior and architecture assignments JUST to see what neat ideas they’ve incorporated into the design.
Many thanks to the wonderful team at Solaris…great job as always!!!
It was an honor being the official photographer for the acquisition and merger between ANSWER and ATI yesterday:
“Analytic Services Inc. (ANSER), a public service research institute organized as a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to informing decisions that shape the nation’s future, today announced it has acquired South Carolina-based Advanced Technology International (ATI), a not-for-profit company that organizes and manages Research & Development (R&D) consortia on behalf of the federal government. Through this acquisition, represented by the law firm of Holland & Knight, ANSER gains approximately 165 employees bringing its total headcount to 515 and revenue growth increases to $500 million per annum…http://finance.yahoo.com/news/anser-expands-national-footprint-advanced-170000788.html“
Last night I had the oportunity to photograph the Charleston Legislative Group before their first meeting of 2017.
With limited time, a confined space, and heavy foot traffic through the area, I elected to use an all wireless setup. This was a simple bank of windows in the study area of the Lowcountry Graduate Center. The last thing I needed was students tripping over power chords as they hurried past me on the way to classes and meetings!
For a soft bank of main lights, I mounted 2 SB-800 flashes on a Manfrotto stand with a 60″ Westcott shoot-through umbrella to camera right, and the same to camera left. These were set as Group A. For a kicker or rim light, I mounted a bare SB-800 on a tall Manfrotto stand and set it up high in the left corner, aimed back towards the group’s heads. The same setup was repeated on the back right corner. These were set to Group B. To add a little color to an otherwise drab background, I placed blue gels on 3 SB-800 flashes, and mounting them to one of my triple-threat brackets, atop another Manfrotto light. These were set as Group C and placed outside the building, aiming back at the blinds from behind. All stands were sand-bagged with BoaBags for safety.
The image was shot on a Nikon D4 on a Manfrotto tripod, tethered to a Lenovo Yoga laptop. All flashes were triggered by an SB-5000 on the camera, via RadioPopper Px radio transmitters. The final shot was cropped for 16×20 output, with space for graphics left at the top of the frame.
I have always been a huge fan of the Olympics! Sure there are politics involved…but the premise of bridging barriers and bringing people of all nations together for friendly competition is an honorable one!
So it was with great pleasure that I listened to Emma, a very creative and charismatic high-school senior, describe her project to me! It was a real honor being a part of helping Emma realize her vision of the Olympic Rings!
When we’re not shooting weddings and events on weekends, we photograph lots of head shots and executive portraits throughout the week. South Carolina Federal Credit Union has been sending their employees over to us for a couple years now. Jessica just joined their team and needed photos for a press release. This image was shot with a giant 6-foot LiteDome softbox to her left as the main light, a medium softbox behind and on her right as a kicker light, a small softbox on a boom above her for a hair light, and an SB-800 right behind her as a background light. I like using small wireless strobes as my background light since it’s wireless and I don’t have to worry about cables showing in the photo if I do a full-length shot. The rest of the light sources were Alien Bees, which are triggered with the RadioPopper Jr (Studio Version) radio triggers. The image was shot with a Nikon D2x (which I use exclusively in the studio), and the 70-200 f2.8.
My “Double Your Pleasure” post about the team photos I did for ESPN got such a big response! So I thought I’d share this group photo I did last weak using the same technique. Anchor Commercial has been a client of ours for many years. One of the things they have me photograph for them each November is a group shot they put in a Christmas Card to send all their clients. Rather than setting up on the South East side of their building where they’d be squinting in to the morning sun, we decided to set up on the North West side. This provided a nice rim/back light. However, their faces were in extreme shadow. So I set up my double-flash technique with two SB-800s on each of two light stand, firing them through my favorite Westcott 43” Collapsible Umbrellas, and triggering them with my trusty RadioPoppers. Here’s the scene before everyone arrived, and the final image they selected for their card.
Last week I shot this fun family portrait session for our good friends, the McKelveys. They used to live on Sullivan’s Island near Fort Moultrie. Their kids used to play down there all the time. Since they had such fond memories from that area, we decided to do their family’s photo shoot there.
