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opera singers

Can I just say that I love opera singers? I love opera singers. Every time I get a chance to work with musicians I love it, and I especially love these folks: artistic, photogenic, confident, and so so easy in front of a camera. While it will be almost impossible to top the shots of New York’s Arielle Doneson (girl, why are these not up on your site?!) and Julie Baron, we came pretty close with this charismatic crew. All outdoor shots are natural light – with Emily holding a gold & silver reflector – and the studio shots were done with a single softbox and occasional rear fill from a second strobe. Wonderful job everyone – this was our pleasure. Check the gallery for your shots!

2008: 07/08
CATEGORY: photoshoots
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towles baby

The Towles family and I go back a while now in terms of portrait and wedding photography and the most recent shots were a treat as well. Emily, Ashlee and I headed out to their place on the lake and shot a good collection of candid photos in between two other shoots on a Sunday afternoon. The two below are my initial favorites, and the one on the stairs was aided by Emily with a circular diffuser panel. Nice job everyone – always excellent to work with your family!

2008: 07/06
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hitch portfolio shots

Another good challenge – we’ve certainly shot our fair share of interiors and exteriors for commercial clients, but starting to shoot for a design house that puts them together is not only fun, but quite satisfying. For this property, all shots are natural or ambient light, and 100% handheld. I just am not a tripod person. I’ll use one in the studio for commercial, repeatable work, but on location I just move around too much and it gets in the way. It is too hard to crawl on the floor, lie on your back, stand on furniture, and squeeze into corners when you are tied to a tripod. Leveraging ambient light with high but safe ISO makes this possible; well… that and holding your breath and shooting like an ROTC Rifle Team competitor of course. (yes, this was in a former life though) Whatever the case, the client was happy, and sent Meghan this great quote:

Meg -

We were so pleased with the River Valley Photos, we have several other
buildings we would like to have Brockit photograph. Can we set up a
time for Adam to stop by and review two of the buildings?

Thanks

2008: 07/01
CATEGORY: photoshoots
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downtown houghton

What a fun, fun project. Over the course of a few days, the whole Brockit crew gathered models, arranged scenes, and conned unsuspecting tourists for a series of shots to feature activities in downtown Houghton. We pulled out all the stops; handheld reflectors, rear sync flash in the woods, multiple photographers, etc. At the end, we have about 700 images for our good friends Dave & Karyn who are working on the project for the City of Houghton. No doubt that you’ll see these shots on large posters (see the sneak peek below), in visitors guides, websites, etc. Thanks for the fun project guys, and thanks especially all the accomodating restaurants, shops, bike clubs, dogs, hikers, interns, housemates, etc. To all the models that signed the releases - we’ll get the full gallery posted with all the shots for you to enjoy as well. In the meantime, look for yourselves in downtown Houghton windows…

note from one of our location models below:

Hi Meg,

I got your E-Mail . Thanks for the photos. My kids will love seeing them. I enjoyed looking at all the photos on your website. Very nice work.

Thanks again!
Det. Daniel Koch

2008: 06/28
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alan parsons in amsterdam

How does the song go: ‘its a small world after all…’ ? It totally is. Ramona Capilitan, PR at De Waerdse Tempel in the Netherlans is using a shot of Alan Parsons for his promotional material this week. The small world part: I just left Amsterdam about a month ago, shot Alan and his crew a couple years ago, and my daughter and Alan Parsons’ lead vocalist PJ Olsson’s daughter are playmates. Funny…

Ramona, dank u wel for the business and the VIP invite. Alan, Godfrey, Manny, Steve, John, and PJ, have a great show! Hope to see you guys soon.

2008: 06/28
CATEGORY: photoshoots
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blechinger wedding

Amy got married on the 28th and we captured her moments from noon until midnight. Red carpet is always challenging to match with flash, so I elected to leave it in the bag and just crank the ISO on the D3 a bit. Oh yeah, and it looks like I finally fried one of the SB-800 strobes and I didn’t feel like programming one of the other slaves to act as master. We’d have time for this later anyway… I’m not big on formal group shots, and tend to do these in a relaxed and artistic style vs. stuffy and ‘look at the camera and smile’. Its just not my style. My preference for a setup and shot is below with the mine ruin, sunburst, and casual poses. I admit that I did throw some strobe into this to carefully fill shadows without creating more. Nice job, Amy. You had a beautiful day!