For Photographers: Corporate Session

July 2010

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Cliff Mautner
Cliff is a fantastic wedding photographer, one of the best in the world. He doesn't need a plug from me, trust me, he has achieved a number of well deserved accolades, but he is a personal favorite. To me, what makes a really great photographer is his or her personal style. To distill it down for idiots like myself, it's what makes him different that makes him special. He is a master of low light composition and he creates incredibly beautiful and poignant images that capture the essence of his clients. Suffice to say, I am a huge fan.
David Ziser
David Ziser is incredible. I recently attended his conference as he toured 60 cities across the USA and I learned a ton sitting in the audience in the Atlanta Hyatt in Buckhead about how to create dramatic lighting with a Qflash and a speedlight. I was fortunate enough to shake his hand and tell him thanks for be so open and giving; it was his character and his willingness to share the knowledge he has accumulated over 30 years that impressed me, but it was his personal charm that endeared him to me. What a great human being.
Joe McNally
Joe McNally is one of the premiere professional photographers on the planet. He shoots Nikon and I read anything he writes, listen to anything he says and is one of the ten people I would love to have a cup of coffee with one day.
Kevin Kubota
Voted one of the world's best wedding photographers, his work is beautiful and astounding. Additionally, Kevin is a Photoshop guru and markets a number of action products and tutorials for Lightroom workflow and album production. I had a chance to meet Kevin for the first time at a WPPI Roadshow here in Atlanta in September of 2009. He was affable and down to earth and enjoyed his presentation and learned a few things as he spoke.
Kristy Dickerson
Kristy is a fantastic photographer that I have had the pleasure to shoot a few weddings with. I love her style and she has a beautiful sense of timing and a great eye. She is very talented and establishes a great rapport with clients; they just love her.
Marcus Bell
Marcus Bell is a phenomenal photographer from down under. Very talented Nikon shooter that is extremely versatile and a really talented wedding shooter.
Steve Glass
A consummate professional with a real flair for the artistic and amazing timing on the shutter. He is a fantastic talent at capturing those tantalizing candid shots at weddings. Always learning, teaching and growing in his craft. His style is unique, distinctive and beautiful. Steve is a personal friend, but more than that he is a brother from a different mother, someone who shoots me straight, no varnish, no sauce, just the facts and I appreciate his honesty and candor more than he'll ever know. God bless him and his family and if you are looking for a finger on a trigger he's your guy.
Thom Hogan
Premiere nature photographer, Nikon equipment expert, prolific author of exceptional DSLR & Flash eBooks.
Tricia Whitmer
Tricia is a fantastic photographer. Her portrait and wedding work is amazing and worth a look. She is an inspiration to me and a fabulous talent that recently shared some of her trade secrets in a workshop; money well spent and I highly recommend you attend one of her workshops if you ever get the opportunity.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Crown Mountain Women's Health

Hello everyone and hope the new year is going well for you. Can you believe it's almost February? Me neither, wow it goes so fast.

Anyway, Crown Mountain Women's Health is a client in the process of putting up several new websites: Crown Mountain Women's Health and Wellness Within. Dr. Amber French and Dr. Bob Brown are OB/GYN physicians. The pair of doctors and their very sweet nursing and office staff, some very nice ladies, posed for some group and individual portraits.

Beth Snider, account manager and project manager for 3by400 and staff, plan to use several of these images on the new websites. This is a great web development firm and if you're in need of web design services you should give them a call. I wanted to thank Beth for being on site during the shoot and helping to make everything so much easier with her assistance and expertise.

I shot a previous session of their beautiful office and many of those shots are already up on the web sites, but we wanted to get some additional group and individual portraits and the Wellness Within T-shirts were not available for our last shoot. So we all met at Yahoola Creek Park here in Dahlonega on a day the office was closed. It was a chance to get out of the office, breathe some crisp mountain air and get some great shots next to creek. Thanks to Dr. French, Dr. Brown and all the sweet ladies for enduring the mud, deer stuff (it's our secret) and their patience as we posed them, positioned flash equipment, metered and re-metered in the changing light conditions for the shots.

Here are several shots from our session, this was a fun shoot and, again, thanks to all who participated and helped make this a success.

One final thought, I brought along some location studio flash equipment and light modifiers: Elinchrom Ranger RX Speed AS kit with two 'A' heads, Elinchrom EL Octa 190cm softbox (my personal favorite when you need a gorgeous big indirect light source as a key light) and an Elinchrom Rotalux Softbox Octa 100cm (excellent for use as a fill light). I really like Elinchrom lights and modifiers; if you're looking for high quality portable lighting take a look at their products.