I love shooting in downtown denver there are so many cool little places that aid making interesting senior portraits. I have never been fully happy with digital black and whites. I am not sure what the difference is maybe its tonality but digital has never been able to replicate the look of black and white images made with film. The depth of a film (black and white ) is different, but it is hard to place why. These are just simple portraits but, I find them pretty interesting and the seniors mother loved the few I gave to her that day.
Taken with Mamiya 127mm 4.7
I wanted to share two of the images that we took today at our baby portrait session. I must say that these guys have their hands full with twins. I have to finish scanning the negatives but I thought you might enjoy these this weekend.
Congratulations on your beautiful twins you guys.
We get a lot of emails from aspiring photographers from around the country. One of the most asked question’s is how to get better. So I thought I would answer it today.
I think there are a lot of ways to get better at the craft of photography I am going to list the one that I think will accelerate your learning curve.
1. Practice – I played sports up until college. Baseball, basketball and cross country. Baseball was my passion. I liked playing basketball and cross country but I mostly played them to get into shape for baseball. It was driven into me at a young age that if you wanted to be good at something you needed to practice. The best place to start is just shooting that next picture.
I thought this picture from a Vail wedding would help to illustrate practicing and pre visualizing.
Groomsman practicing his speech
I absolutely adore shooting with a Holga. The lack of control except for composition makes it such a fun camera to use. It’s so simplistic that it leaves the photographer with so many artistic choices. This image was taken on the way to shoot a wedding in Ouray Colorado. We stopped in a small town for some gas and a bite to eat. After eating we gave ourselves some time to walk around and explore. I was drawn to the shapes and textures of the old Kayaks. I am printing this one up for the house and thought I would share it.
