Last year, Michelle suggest the wonderful idea of visiting an apple orchard. So we had checked out the Minnetonka Orchards in Minnetrista. It's a really fun, gorgeous place. Sadly, we went this year and we couldn't pick our own apples! It hadn't occurred to any of us that harvest season probably started early this year due to the weird weather. We still had a great time though, as Danielle, Carla, Brian, Corben, Amy and two of her kids were all there to help us enjoy it!
Taken for my Photography I course, it was much more difficult than one would expect. Overall I enjoyed the project, even though I had no small amount of anxiety about not doing it perfectly.
Another of Nazara in the alleyway. We took a bunch of amazing photos outside of it as well, but these are just too good not to share!
This was my first shoot with Nazara, and she was absolutely wonderful. Her first time modeling, she did an amazing job and we were blessed with perfect weather, light and timing. I was going to wait and share them via my daily photoblog (on Posterous), but I just can't wait and had to show you all at least one!
My recreation of a photo of Barbra Streisand by Cecil Beaton. The model is my good friend, fellow photographer and studiomate Carla Haglund. You can check out her amazing work over at her site, Fairshadow Photography.
The original classic photo can be seen here, third image in.
Talking to three of my fellow Photography I students after finishing our mid-term exam.
My recreation of "Charis, 1939" by Edward Weston. It was for my Photo Comp class originally, but I have to say that I really enjoyed doing it. I would like to do more such recreations in the future.
Found along the Zombie Pub Crawl route on Washington in Minneapolis, MN. It was just sitting there waiting.
Taking pictures in between darkroom lab time and lecture. I want to do a lot more infrared images, they're so cool.
I'm unbelievably hungry just looking at this image. The Nook's version of the Juicy Lucy is *amazing*.
This DSLR wireless monitor takes the video or still photo feed from any DSLR camera or video camera and sends it wirelessly to a seven inch or 10″ portable, battery powered monitor. It's incredibly sweet, I would love to have something like this for clients in the studio. Read about it at www.robertbenson.com/blog
Hi all you cosplayers out there!
For years now I've wanted to get more images of cosplayers in my portfolio but have not had the chance to do so. That itch has finally caught up with me and I just have to scratch it. I figured that as we head into the cosplay season with Detour in a week and other cons not far behind, I know that a lot of you have your new, totally badass outfits ready to go! So here's the deal:
Instead of my usual $100/hr for a portrait session, you and I will brainstorm on a completely awesome shoot (preferably on location because chances are that your character probably didn't spend a lot of time hanging out in photo studios, although there's no reason we couldn't do both!) and it will only be $75 for two hours! If we think the shoot is going to run longer, we can negotiate on the price for additional hours, and if you need a makeup artist or stylist please let me know and we can work that out.
I want more pictures of cosplayers, and you want more professional quality images of the outfit you spent hours and probably hundreds of dollars assembling that aren't random "in the hall" shots at a convention, so let's make this happen!
For some examples of cosplay photos I've taken in the past, please check out these images I took of Holly Luckes as Poison Ivy!
Also, for a limited time, the first person to do so can save a little money by buying me this totally sweet hoodie in lieu of payment. Only the first person to offer to do so can take advantage of the hoodie opportunity.
Email, FB message or call for more details, to tell me all about your sweet cosplay and to set up your appointment today!
-Drayke Larson
Photosynthetique Imaging
http://photosynthetique.com
drayke@photosynthetique.com
612-424-9760
