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Category Archives: fashion

ashley’s bridal portraits | utah wedding photography

A few weeks ago I met my awesome client Ashley at the salt flats for her bridal session. Even in the middle of a nasty wind storm she still looked amazing! You can see from the images below how much salt was in the air. When I got home, my gear and I were covered in salt.

Here are just a few of the images from Ashley’s session.

Utah Wedding Photography by Innovative Photography
Utah Wedding Photography by Innovative Photography
Utah Wedding Photography by Innovative Photography
Utah Wedding Photography by Innovative Photography
Utah Wedding Photography by Innovative Photography

becca | utah photographer

I look forward to the days that I get to spend with my family. You know, those days when you have nowhere to be and no plans. Kids running in and out of the house each trip ends with the door left wide open because their hands are full of the sugar snacks they just pillaged from the pantry. Yeah, those are the days that I love the most. Today just happened to be one of those days and it was AWESOME!!! I got to spend some much needed time with my super sexy wife Becca and our amazing offspring :) We just hung out all day, took two walks… oh yeah and did a quick photoshoot.

Becca is not only the sexiest woman on the planet, she is also my muse! I keep trying to talk her into shooting with me, hopefully one of these days she will!!!

Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography

Peek-a-boo, I see me.
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography

meet julia + workshop update | utah fashion photographer

Workshop Update:
I held my first workshop at my studio in SLC on May 13th and four amazing and talented photographers were in attendance. Each of them gave me a lot of good feedback which is leading me to make some changes to my upcoming working on June 10th. You can find out more info about my June lighting workshop here along with what the photographers who attended the May workshop have to say about their experience.

If you want to see an example of what you might learn at my lighting workshops keep reading…

Meet Julia:
As far as weather is concerned, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks here in Salt Lake City. One day it will be nice and warm with plenty of sunshine and the next it will be snowing (like today). Well, when I met Julia for her portfolio shoot it was just about to start pouring rain. We decided to wait it out and see if the rain would clear up and it didn’t… at least not for a while. At one point I thought I was going to get hit by lightening! Instead of postponing the shoot we decided to find a parking garage to shoot and I’m sure glad we did. The garage had some rad circles cut into the cement walls which I thought was perfect!

Julia is an aspiring model and this was her first photo shoot. She needed some fashion and swimsuit images for her portfolio… at 7:30 PM in 40 degree weather no less! She was a real trooper and she didn’t complain once even though I could sense that she was FREEZING! It probably took her two days to thaw out.

Join the conversation in the comments below and let her know what you think and wish her luck. She will be modeling at my upcoming workshop in June.

Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography
Utah Fashion Photographer - Innovative Photography

portrait session with megan joy from american idol | utah wedding and portrait photographer

All you American Idol fans out there will want to check out this post. Earlier this month I had the privilege of photographing Megan Joy from season 8 of American Idol. If you watched the show at all, you know that Megan has an amazing voice… I didn’t ask her to sing during her session but maybe I will next time! :)

Since it was cold outside Megan and her son met me at my studio in Salt Lake for a quick photo shoot. Here are some images from their session… leave some comment love and let me know what you think.

Megan, thanks for giving me the opportunity to capture these moments of you and your AWESOME son!

portrait of megan joy from american idol by ryan christensen and innovativephotography.net
portrait of megan joy from american idol by ryan christensen and innovativephotography.net
portrait of megan joy from american idol by ryan christensen and innovativephotography.net
portrait of a cute little boy by ryan christensen and innovativephotography.net
portrait of megan joy from american idol by ryan christensen and innovativephotography.net

stock photography shoot | utah commercial and editorial photographer

I’m trying to get caught up on posting past shoots so here are some images I shot during a stock shoot I did at a local airport this past fall.

Beautiful woman with a private jet
Affluent Travel - Beautiful woman with a private jet.
Beautiful woman with a private jet
Beautiful woman with a private jet
African American man with a private jet

My friend and fellow photographer Brooke Kinsey from Blush Photography helped me out on this shoot and I even made her jump in for a couple of quick shots. Thanks for helping out and being such a good sport Brooke!

Here is a shot with most of the crew from the shoot. Thanks everyone for bringing your A game!
Stock photo shoot crew