Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Busy photo week



Last week was a busy photo week for me. I only took pictures one day but had a couple of photo events that were really cool. On Thursday night I was able to go up to Salt Lake and rub elbows with a bunch of local photographers. The event was for a pretty well known guy in the photo world named Zack Arias. If you don't know who Zack is, he is a pretty amazing music photographer. He does a lot of bands press kits and CD covers. I was able to talk to him for a few minutes and he also spoke to the group about how he got started and what he does. He's a great speaker and was really entertaining. There was a photo booth set up at the event and I got a couple photos with my buddy Sam and a new friend named Alex.

The other photo event I had was a thing called Photocamp Utah. It's an all day workshop type thing. I went up with my friend from high school and good photo buddy Jeremy Stowell. We were able to learn a few cool new things from some great photographers. I will admit though that I went in with pretty high expectations and was expecting a little more from the workshops. Still, even though I didn't learn as much as I was hoping I would I learned a few new things and again got to hear Zack Arias speak. Over all it was a fun day of photo nerdiness.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Elements

Last week I gave my students an assignment to take photos of the Elements of Art. If you are not sure what those Elements are they are Color, Line, Shape, Form, Texture, Value, and Space.
I had a training I had to go to at UVU las week as well, just after I gave the students the assignment. As I was walking through one of the new buildings I noticed that the stair wells create these incredible shapes so I grabbed my camera and took a few photos. I'm going to show them to my classes today.


Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Swan Lake


So I've been taking a lot of ballet photos lately and have been really enjoying it. I was recently invited to take photos at two dress rehearsals for Ballet Wests production of Swan Lake. It was a pretty big honor that they invited me to come photograph the show. I guess they have people all the time ask if they can come take photos but they never turn out very good, and rarely do they invite photographers to come.
Here are a few of my favorites from the two dress rehearsals. It was a pretty amazing performance!