Amanda & Joe [Engagement]

Blue skies, white fluffy clouds, and Tempe Town Lake. Beauteous. We’re tentatively labeling this set as “to be continued” since we were cut short due to out of control wind. Oy. Anyways, enjoy the lovies:

Rollout.

ReBlog/Reesers [Family Shoot]

Welcome back folks. It’s been awhile, but I’m finally up and rolling again. Thanks to the lovelies over at State Farm, this Mikerophonity is coming to you straight from my shiny new MacBook Pro’s keyboard. Insurance is by far the best investment I made this year… Err… Last year.

Yup, yup. As you may have noticed, it’s now 2010, which means I should probably look back to this post and give you an update on the resolutions made there [spoiler alert: the results are surprisingly similar to most other people’s]. A new year isn’t all bad news… I’ve got some exciting stuff for your lovely eyes to check out coming up soon. I have my good buddy/Javascript genius Josiah whipping up a spifferific website for me, and a full on rebranding on the way.

I also need to throw up some Scotland shots, the results of my final photo project, and some fun snowboarding action. Needless to say, I’ve been busy.

But for now, I’d like guys to meet the Reesers; a supremely photogenic and fun family that I shot on the day after Christmas. You’ve already seen Brandon and Breanna strut their stuff in their ridiculously cool 30’s shoot. This time, they brought along the rest of the family for the party.

Rollfest.

Aaron & Ira ::: Old Town Scottsdale

Heyo! Another married couple/friends of mine wanted their own shoot (for no reason whatsoever) so I happily obliged. We started off about an hour later than planned so we missed out on a lot of light.

They were a really fun couple to shoot. Just kind of goofy people. However I think they pulled off the serious shots pretty well. Ira is a photographer herself and helped me with this shoot.

Things I learned:

DON’T cut it close at dusk.
The nifty fifty + 5D2 isn’t always glorious (where the crap are these focus issues coming from?!)
Even with the focusing issues, and even with some nice L glass, I still love my 1989 50 1.8.
I need to invest in some Pocket Wizards ASAP, cause I’m totally fed up with Canon’s IR.
Post processing to the rescue!

Gearcheck:

5D2
50.8
135L
16/35L
3x580EX

This is them telling me there’s a car coming… While I’m telling them there’s a car coming. Haha.

Favorite

As for the flash shot from a few posts ago, the hotshoe on my flash broke so I finally got around to fixing it. I got my Eurail pass (2 days! Whoo!), and Steffi’s prints came in. They look dang nice.

That’s about it for now, I’ve been crazy busy trying to get ready for London!!! My next post might be from a different state, country, and/or continent!

Peace.

Welcome to the 30’s [20’s?]

Hello dearest readers… Summer’s coming down fast. Days are starting to speed up again. In 3 1/2 weeks I’ll be in freaking Europe. Heck to the yes.

So the most recent chaos that is occuring in the Villa home is Dave’s rebroken wrist. Ok, we don’t actually know if it’s broken yet [he is on route to the hospital as I’m writing this] but we’re pretty sure it is. He broke it playing football. Again. He did the exact same thing last year. Twice. So far Dave’s football casualties have include three broken fingers and two broken bones in the hand. All in his left hand. And that’s not even including this time. Needless to say his piano teacher is pissed. Bonehead.

My photofriend Ira and I went on a shoot last weekend and it was pretty fun stuff. Got to mess around with some new lighting and processing and I think I’m liking how they turned out. Brandon and Breanna [our lovely models] got all tuxed-up in a 1930’s [maybe 1920’s] get up and we headed into Downtown Gilbert for some lens flare fun. Here are my faves from the shoot:

Third favorite from the evening:

So they were dancing here. But it kinda came out looking like a boob grab. Either way I love their expressions. [Second favorite]

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Steffi Rocks a Shoot

So yesterday I did my first senior shoot outside of working at Leasures. It was a ton of fun and Steffi absolutely rocked the camera. Also, she gets major props for trekking around for four freaking hours (it went a little long…) in heels. Not only that, but we were hiking up ridiculous hills, kicking around gravel in junkyards, dodging electric fences, and walking down tipsy docks. The words “just don’t get me killed” were probably said way too frequently. Anyways, it turned out to be way more of an adventure than either of us had planned for, but it was that much more fun.

This shoot was also a way sweet one for me because it was the first shoot I got to use my shiny new 35L. Mmm…. Beauteous. Diggin’ it.

So that’s the intro, onto the pics:

By far my favorite from the whole day 🙂

“Ok, now jump off the swing.”
“Like from high up? Like a real jump?”

Favorite number dos

Conquering the wobbly plastic dock in heels. Way to be.

Coming next: 1930’s photoshoot in downtown Gilbert. Check back soon peeps.

Peace.

Get Stoked

Steffi totally rocked a photoshoot today. Here’s a [very vague and straight out of camera] teaser for the awesomeness that is coming soon to a Mikerophone near you:

Roll.

Mo Photos. As Promised.

Here’s a few shots of Courtney doin’ her Marilyn Monroe deal: