by Elsa Jensen | May 18, 2015 | Blog-category, Photos, Things
Here I go again, gushing about Flora + Fern and these floral arrangements. After having spent the weekend in Utah arranging wedding bouquets, Jacelyn decided to slow it down and creates a beautiful table arrangement. She is such a wonderful florist with so many types of arrangements and flowers and create such unique and stunning pieces with the most beautiful flowers – I mean look at those hydrangeas and ranunculas! I am a sucker for pretty flowers. Give Jacelyn a shout out if you need a wedding florist or flowers for any occasion or give her website a look! http://floraandfern.com/ ...
by Elsa Jensen | May 6, 2015 | Blog-category, People, Things
Do you remember the lovely little floral shop called Flora + Fern by my wonderful friend Jacelyn Bolton? Our weekend of photo shoots and fresh flowers included beautiful wedding florals. With a whimsical garden inspired bouquet and boutonniere and the most beautiful and fun couple, it wasn’t hard to showcase them through these photos. Make sure to take a look at Jacelyn’s website – she’s perfect for all of your floral design and wedding flower needs!...
by Elsa Jensen | Mar 25, 2015 | Blog-category, People, Photos, Things
My dearest friend Jacelyn Bolton, has real talent. I’ve always thought that she has such a good eye for styling and overall direction of creative beauty ventures – want an outfit for the day? She can whip it out. Need help arranging your living and decorating it? She’ll show you exactly what looks good where and even throw in some ideas. Personally, I’ve always thought that she should be and could be a creative director for businesses, photo shoots, or events. So when she told me that she wanted to study floral design and start a business, I knew it was going to be a beautiful thing. All of her experience and her eye for styling and weddings really sets her up there with floral designs and bouquets. I absolutely loved collaborating with her for a launch photoshoot for her new business, Flora + Fern – trust me people, you’re going to want to see the rest of these beautiful creations and her website, so keep an eye out! For now, here is the lovely Cortney Bramlette modeling a wonderful whimsical...
by Elsa Jensen | Mar 4, 2015 | Blog-category, Home Page, Photos, Things
My dad is a big foodie – he loves all types of food and even more so, he loves cooking all types of food (thank heavens for my mother, who does not like cooking as much). And when we went to Italy for the first time in 2009, my dad became obsessed with his next food adventure – pizza. Not just regular pizza thrown in the oven, but real authentic Italian pizza in a real authentic Italian pizza oven. So for a few years, he saved money to finally buy an authentic pizza oven that came all the way from Italy, and for the last two summers we have been engrossed in the pizza world, inspiring me to feel that the only appropriate way to keep this pizza going is to document the entire process (and use it mercilessly for my senior project). Now Mike doesn’t just make one kind of pizza – he makes them all. Regular pepperoni, bar-b-que chicken, garlic chicken, margherita, Thai chicken (a crowd favorite), spicy buffalo, pesto, and Mexican taco (my personal favorite). It’s always a huge ordeal that takes most of the day – heating up the oven to a substantially hot and burning degree, making the homemade dough (thanks to mama!), cooking, cutting, mixing all of the various foods he uses, and finally making the pizzas. And there’s usually way too much pizza, so with either a gaggle of neighbors and friends over or pizzas to deliver around the block, the food is always shared. It’s become a family event that happens almost weekly, and I’ve decided there’s nothing more fun...
by Elsa Jensen | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog-category, People, Photos, Places, Portfolio, Things
A portfolio is one’s best work. And sometimes, it can be hard to decide exactly which photographs you think are your own personal best! I’ve been trying to narrow down which pictures are my own best and also my favorites that I would want to put in my portfolio. I think I’ve narrowed it down to the best photographs that really showcase my style and skill. ...
by Elsa Jensen | Nov 17, 2014 | Blog-category, Photos, Portfolio, Things
The warm feel and smell of fresh bread is enough to make me hungry. Capturing food and product photography of bakery items and baked goods can be a really fun thing. I wanted to have a warm feel with the loaves of artisan bread that we used for our shoot. I loved the detail and texture in the grains and even in the crumbs. The crescent rolls and cupcakes were also fun to photograph and shows the more smooth lines of baked goods. I tried to give these photos a feel that would make someone want to go to a bakery and eat a loaf of fresh artisan bread by using a wide aperture and nice lighting to compliment. The last two photos are HDR photos of the loaf of bread. HDR food photography can show color and texture really well. I love food and product photography! ...
by Elsa Jensen | Nov 17, 2014 | Blog-category, Photos, Portfolio, Things
I love the fresh feeling of a Saturday spent at the farmer’s market buying juicy and fresh produce. Photographing it is even better – I love being able to set up a scene that is simple and beautiful with a great natural light. Food and product photography can be very simple and clean sometimes and I love that side of it – I tried to convey that in these photos and used simple lines and natural lighting with my limes, lemons, and apples. I tried mixing it up a little bit with the artichoke and cauliflower, but for the most part, I just love the beauty of fresh fruit in food and product photography. ...
by Elsa Jensen | Nov 17, 2014 | Blog-category, Photos, Things
Food and product photography has got to be one of my new favorite styles and types of photography! There’s so much that can be done with the look and composition to portray a product. I loved spending time photographing different types of products that were both food and objects. With a variety of different products like the apple cider, rose gold jewelry, Angie’s popcorn, glasses, and more, it was a stretch to learn how to balance and use different apertures and shutter speeds, being careful to have a fast enough speed and give enough light, without losing too much detail on the...
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....
by Elsa Jensen | Oct 29, 2014 | Blog-category, Portfolio, Things
There’s something about light painting that makes me feel like I’m in an old movie, like Audrey Hepburn’s Wait Until Dark. With some of these pictures and scenes it was really interesting to try and imagine them in black and white – and even better to see them in black and white after it was shot. I have always loved black and white, and combining the shadows and light patterns that come with table top light painting made me enjoy it that much more. I love that shooting a light painting almost seems like a test – you never quite know what you’re going to get out of each shot, but when you finally get it right, its so rewarding. With the right settings, right light, and a creative mind, it can make a perfect picture – especially in black and white or less saturated photos! ...
by Elsa | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog-category, Things
If there is one thing I can say about water drops and macro photography, its all about patience. It was quite an experience to learn and figure out what ways to make water drops work and on what surfaces they stay well on. It is a process of trial and error, but once we started to figure out exactly how to do it, getting those water drops with a reflection can be just like magic. It was also really fun to see when a reflection would pull through the water drop and create a scene worth seeing. For the set up, I used both the 31mm and 13mm extension tubes to get in nice and tight. I also used a LED light to make sure that the scene was lit well enough, because I needed a very fast shutter speed (1/250) and tight aperture (F/14) to catch the water drop before it fell. It was fun to work with different things for reflections and I think it is definitely a photography skill worth having!...
