Park City Lifestyle
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.
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Fall Portraits
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.
Fall Fashion Portraits
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 through.
Canyon Engagements
What is better than Snowbird canyon for beautiful engagements? Liza and Scotty have the cutest story of how they met and fell in love – and their sweet and loving relationship is enough to make anyone’s heart melt a little. I had the sweetest time with this couple and loved exploring new parts of the Snowbird Canyon with them. Aren’t they so sweet?
Chelsea & Alex Bridals
Bridals have got to be some of my favorite things to shoot – its all the love and anticipation of an upcoming wedding with all the time and a perfect golden sunset. And this day was perfect for a sunset! We went down near the Jordan River Parkway for this shoot and it was a dreamy scene that fit exactly what Chelsea and Alex were looking for. They are such a fun and sweet couple – Alex’s face when he saw Chelsea for the first time was so precious and sweet! These bridals were definitely proof of that and their wedding was a treat that I can’t wait to share! For now, enjoy the bridals of Chelsea and Alex Peterson!
Double Exposure Portrait
A few months ago I found a photographer that had a really fabulous eye and design for double exposure photography – Andre De Freitas. I’ve been looking around since then and noticing more and more double exposures that are done in Photoshop and I’ve wanted to take a try at making them myself, so I was excited for this assignment so I could try a double exposure.
To create a double exposure, I used two images masked together with a few different techniques. I wanted to create a type of cutout, so first I made a selection of my first image (a self portrait) and refined the edges and made it as crisp and clean as possible. Then, with that selection, I laid the second image on top and made a mask of that image with the selection. That makes the image simply a silhouette, so to add my face and details back in, I copied the selection and added it to a new layer on top and changed the layering mode to screen. Then with layer masks, I was able to change up what I wanted different areas to look like and add or subtract to them. I also added a black and white layer at a very low opacity to wash out the color a little bit to emphasize the image. The finished product made me very happy – and it definitely made me want to keep trying more double exposure photos!
