by Elsa Jensen | Nov 12, 2014 | Blog-category, People, Photos
Little kids and families are always such a fun time and this family was no exception! I loved these sweet and fun kids with their awesome parents – I may have gotten a little too attached to those cute little girls. The sun was setting and the lighting was just perfect, so with no auxiliary lighting needed, I got some really great photographs of this family. Using a smaller aperture for the group portraits (about a f/5.6 – f/7.0) and a much bigger aperture for the individuals (around an f/2.5), I was able to achieve really fun and good family pictures of the Pingels!...
by Elsa Jensen | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog-category, Home Page, People, Photos, Portfolio
Park City, Utah is an area with gorgeous landscapes and sophisticated artsy feel. Every time I visit, I feel like a part of a beautiful culture and movement that inspires me (and makes me want to move to the mountains). I’ve always loved Main Street and wanted to photograph there, so it seemed like the perfect place for a lifestyle session. The couple we used are some of my favorite people to be around – their fun loving and sweet personalities and relationship is contagious in every photo. They are my favorite couple to photograph and they fit perfectly on Main Street. \...
by Elsa Jensen | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog-category, Home Page, People, Photos, Portfolio
Isn’t the fall season just so beautiful? With the beauty all around the changing earth, I always end up wanting to photograph everything and everyone during fall. It’s no surprise that Park City, Utah is an absolutely beautiful area this time of year and photographing portraits there is even more dreamy. Deer Vally, Main Street, and the McPolin Farm are both famous and popular areas in the city and beautiful places to be at while photographing portraits. To compliment the beautiful lighting and wonderful couples, I used apertures ranging in a f/2.5 to an f/4.5 with faster shutter speeds to accompany that. I tried pushing myself by trying new poses and ideas with each picture. It was a beautiful day full of beautiful people and personalities – the perfect mixture for portraits. ...
by Elsa Jensen | Nov 10, 2014 | Blog-category, Home Page, People, Photos, Portfolio
There’s always something that feels so cool and sophisticated about fashion photography – the clothes, the poses, the models, the lighting. I have always admired the great fashion photographers of our time and looked to many for inspiration like Lindsey Adler and Patrick Demarchelier and if there is one thing that I’ve noticed, its that there is always a distinct theme and idea. The feel and theme that I and my fellow photographers, Erica White and Whitney Majors were envisioning was a very rustic fall feel as it turns into winter. We chose a spot that had a little bit of fall color left with a variety of dead and alive plants and we decided to shoot in the morning as the sun rose to give a more even a cool light. To create more of a mood, I used primarily low apertures and tried free lensing for a photo or two. Our model and my dear friend, Cortney, was such a perfect fit. I have always loved photographing her – her sophisticated yet kind and spunky personality fits well for so many photos and always shines...
by Elsa Jensen | Nov 9, 2014 | Blog-category, Photos, Places, Portfolio, Things
This past weekend I spent my days in Salt Lake and Park City, Utah soaking up as much beauty and inspiration as I could. Lately I’ve been noticing shapes and how the capture the attention with their simplicity and movement. I’ve also been noticing textures and the way they shape our perceptions of an object. The more I look for these two things, the more I’ve been noticing them all around and Park City and Salt Lake City was full of beautiful lines. I decided that I would start photographing the lines around me, as well as the textures and colors in beautiful Utah and create fine art photographs that reflect what I’ve been seeing....
