Bess Seidler | best blogger | Inspired

My friend Bess started a blog and I find myself actually very excited to read her posts. She is an awesome writer and never fails to make me laugh. After reading her blog, I thought, "my blog is so boring." I need to use my other creative outlets to make it better. So here I am, writing away. I am not the best writer but maybe it will help me feel inspired for my photography.


I have been skipping school. Not because I think I am cool, but I needed to just get out and shoot. I went home Monday and stayed until today. I shot some strange idea I had of my cousins reflection in a puddle and the bottom of her feet. I shot it at 6400 ISO; for those of you who don't speak photography, basically, i'm an idiot. I went into my next shoot with Chris Chase and did the same exact thing. So, needless to say, I got off to a pretty lame start. Then I interuptted my aunts dance class and shot a group of children on the bar for my portrait of children. That was the last shoot of the day. Lets hope it was successful


That night my cousin, Brenna and I went to the gas station to pick up some food. It was raining and there was a man on a mo-ped. Bren says "who the hell is driving a mo-ped in the rain." Obviously it was the man who later on told me that he has only owned mo-peds his entire driving life and this is his 20th one. Anyway, I got an ice tea and some whole wheat goldfish and decided that I wasn't having the luckiest of day so maybe I will have a lucky night . . .

ME: "scratch ticket please?"
CASHIER: "That will come to $5.31."
ME: "Oh man, I only have $5
MAN ON THE MO-PED: "oh here, have a dollar."
ME: "Well that's awful nice of you."
......SCRATCHING THE TICKET ......
ME: 2 dollars
MAN ON THE MOPED: 4 dollars
ME: 6 dollars, 8 dollars, 10 dollars, Can I cash this in please?
CASHIER: "Sorry, the lottery is closed."
MAN ON THE MO-PED : "Here have $10, I will take your ticket."
ME: "Do you want to kiss me or something?
.........Just kidding, that last part didn't happen. But the worst thing and what this story really is about is the fact that I feel like an awful person because I realized when I got home that I only made $8 on the ticket. Not only did I take a dollar from the man but he gave me two extra dollars. . . AND THE POOR MAN DRIVES A MO-PED IN THE RAIN.

PS: For those of you interested in Bess's blog click this link http://bessseidler.blogspot.com
She is awesome!

Lula

Lucy came to my school today. She is staying tonight and spending the morning with me tomorrow. I shot her for my CD cover. I got the front and back cover done tonight and I am shooting the middle spread tomorrow in a field! She looks amazing and I am very happy with them! YAY! Enjoy.

Here are the single shots!





Here is the CD cover!

The Front


The Back


The Middle Spread

Heisler/Turner Location Class

Today my class had a location shoot in Greenfield MA at this really nice location. I was not ecstatic about shooting indoors but I found this amazing spot outside that I had to shoot Anne in. The color scheme is perfect and I love her pose. I went here thinking I wasn't going to get anything because I had nothing planned and now it is my favorite shot. Hope you like it too. Give me feedback!


Anne looking SASS.

Rhode Island for the weekend!

I went to Rhode Island this weekend to re shoot my family portrait and to do my outdoor shot! I am so happy with the outcome. I still have a ton of editing to do on them but here are some rough edits. My family portrait in Niantic did not come out because I tried compositing the entire picture and it didn't work out so I shot everyone together in RI and then just added the balloons. I am going to add popped balloons by Abby's feet. I love my outdoor portrait of Jane. She looks beautiful!
Jane, Phil and I went to pizza lady and scouted locations Saturday night when I arrived. Then we watched the celtics game with the family. It was a lot of Jane. Jane's mom is full of jokes and made the night very entertaining!! Then we drove to Phil's and slept in the basement. The three of us!! I slept okay except for the cricketing and cracketing of pipes and things. Jane and I woke up around 8am and drove to her house. Spencer and I went to by balloons and then to the beach to set up. We shot for about an hour and I am extremely happy with the outcome! Yay! Enjoy . . .


The Zimmerman Family!


Beautiful Jane!

Environmental/Occupational Portraits

I went home on Thursday with Mike and shot a ton. Despite the fact that my mind was everywhere and I broke the back of my camera, Mike tripped on a cord and broke a light and last but not least . . . . drumroll please . . . . . I met Mike at 8am at his house and he drove to CT. I left my car on his street, keys in the ignition, running all day long. Oh yeah . . . music was on. Someone called the cops, they broke in, "secured the car," took my keys, and then called me telling me about how big of a safety issue I caused and how they could have charged me. blah blah blah. We got to Enfield at 9am, shot Gerald in a pile of garbage, drove to the mill to figure out what we wanted to shoot there, drove to the crematory, I did a shot of Kevin Davidson in a swamp on a stretcher next to a stretcher with Mike in it and his feet sticking out!! Mikey shot Davidson in the crematory against the machine. Then we drove back to Somers, picked jennie up from home and shot Michael's couple portrait in the mill. I saw the shot and it is ammaazzing. So cool! Anyway, I am not done editing these two shots yet but here they are! Enjoy.

PS: They are weird, but they are me :)


Gerald in a pile of garbage. He was a good sport and I love him!


Davidson doing his thing!! Also a good sport.

Good News/Bad News

So I uploaded and began editing my shots from the weekend. Bad news is that I absolutly failed at focusing the camera .....grrrrr and my leaf back is dirty. I like this shot of Brooke that I composited but I can't use it because it is out of focus. I haven't started editing Burt and my family portrait was an absolute failure. I didn't have the lighting ratios right on all of them and the back of my camera was way too dirty :( Here are some new shots that I am adding to my phase 4. let me know what you think.


this is the shot of Brooke that is out of focus but I love it.



This is the only one in focus that I liked so I am using it as my phase 4 high key :)


This is the metal shot I am using!


This is my attempted metal shot but I am not using it because its more about Sebastian, my mouse, than it is about the metal.


This shot is my couple shot. I love it!

Okay the good news is that I am one of the selected 22 students at Hallmark to have a their photo printed huge and sold at our open house on April 25th! Also, I submitted to a gallery show in Fairfield CT and was one of 49 photographers chosen out of 700! The Gallery show is in May sometime but tickets are very expensive! Today was a good day!

It has been so long

Okay . . . so I have been slacking a little bit on the updates. I guess there is not much to update though until this past weekend. This past week I was feeling a little down, depressed and uninspired but I got some great shots this weekend that I can't wait to edit. I shot my old next door neighbor, Burt, on his motorcycle. I also shot a Riley dancer for my high key portrait and the Walsh family for my family portrait. I have had a slow start to Phase 4, and all these ideas that I just can't seem to juggle. Burt, Boo and I had a really nice time Saturday day. We chatted for the majority of the time and shot for about a half hour. I think I am going to use his shot as an environmental portrait but I am not sure yet. The shoot with Brooke was a lot of fun and I am very happy with what I got. Yay! I drove to Niantic with my momma this morning and shot the Walsh family at the beach. It is a composited image so it will probably take a while to edit but I think the outcome with be SUPERB. So I am back to writing and if you follow me and would like to model for me please let me know. I will post my shots sometime this week :)