Rinaldo's

Sometime this past summer we drove throughout western Pennsylvania to film a commercial for First National Bank. Looking to shoot scenes that had a natural small town feel, we ended up filming some footage at Rinaldo's Barber Shop in the little downtown area of State College. The place had a great Americana feel to it, with everything in the seven chair shop being original to the day it opened back in 1925. Here's just a few of the photos I had the chance to take during filming.

Water Portrait

As usual, I'll start this post with the phrase, "I haven't updated this in a really long time..."

It's true, I just noticed that it was December the last time I posted a photo, which is probably the longest I've gone without posting anything new since starting this blog. Everything has been so busy this winter. I have shot a number of times with different models, but just haven't seemed to have time to put up the photos. Since then, I've also had my work put up for the first time in a small coffee and music shop here in Tremont called Loop. It's nothing much, but it's a start to getting work displayed, and it's actually already brought in some attention and requests from the people who have picked up my business cards.

For this post, I've chose a photo that I just did about two weeks ago. Sarah was scheduled to shoot with a photographer from LA who as in town, but like it often goes with photographers/models/stylists etc, the plans didn't shake out. Being that we had nothing else planned for the day I decided to do a little impromptu shoot here in my apartment with her. I've wanted to do something with water and the old claw foot tub that I have, so that's what we did. There is a nice mixture of natural light and a large soft box from above, and then it's cross processed to subdue the colors a little bit to fit the style. I'm pretty happy with it considering there was almost no planning behind it and the fact that I've never really shot anything quite like it. I think she likes it too... and two weeks later, I think almost all of the water is out of her ears now as well.

Photograph Info:
Location: Apartment
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm
PostProcess: Portrait Retouch

The Lofts

It's been really long time, and I've finally gotten around to adding a new photo.

About two or three weeks ago I did a shoot at the new (not even finished) Treemont Place Loft apartments (http://www.tremontplacelofts.com/) The owner Meryl, who Sarah just happens to know, was nice enough to let us shoot in one of his premiere spaces. It was a 3,000 square foot apartment, two stories with a long staircase, dark wood, really nice.

So, here's one of the photos from the shoot, with wonderful makeup, and location, once again thanks to Sarah...

Photograph Info:
Location: Treemont Place Lofts, Cleveland Ohio
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm
PostProcess: Portrait Retouch

A New York Wedding

This past weekend was Amanda and JD's wedding extravaganza. A location wedding up around the Finger Lakes in New York. Really quite a beautiful place in the fall, though I imagine it's nice no matter what time of year you are visiting.

So, knowing we'd be in a nice location, and staying in a huge lakehouse with a bunch of other people, I took the camera along for the trip in hopes of getting a few good shots. I did however take the camera along for the actual ceremony which took place in a gorgeous church on the Keuka Lake college campus... who knew. I've never been a big fan of shooting weddings, or interested in doing wedding photography for a ceremony, but I do think I got some decent shots for just mulling about.

Here are a few to take a look through.

The Market

Just a shot from the West Side Market. I was over there this morning for work and took a few photos.

Photograph Info:
Location: West Side Market, Cleveland Ohio
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm
PostProcess: Curves/Color