So you may have noticed my new blog and I have to give a lot of credit to my new friends over at prophotoblogs.com. If you are a wedding photographer or a portrait photographer and you’ve been putting off upgrading your old, outdated blog then you NEED to get this template! The admin pages of the ProPhoto 2 template allow you to quickly and easily customize almost everything about your blog. If you are not the most technical human on the planet there is even has a “hand held” option that includes the guys at prophotoblogs.com walking you through the install of WordPress and your new blog template!
The icing on the yummy ProPhotoBlogs cake is this discount code ~
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Thank you Jared and Matt for such a RAD template!
Take a look at this video if you want to learn more about this AWESOME template!!!!
Ayden decided he wanted his hair cut like his dads. I tried to talk him out of it but he had already made up his mind. We had a lot of fun with it as you’ll see in the second to last image.
I tried to talk him into keeping his hair like this.
What else are you going to do with 6 inches of hair? This one was Becca’s idea and we were cracking ourselves up! I like Ayden’s the most.
It was one year ago today that I received the worst phone call of my life. I was sitting at home with the kids while Becca was out with her girlfriends and I answered the phone. It was my little brother’s voice on the other end of the line. I could tell he was pretty upset about something and then the words came… “Dad’s dead”. These words hit me like a truck and turned my world upside down. As those words echoed through my head I just sat there completely and utterly helpless. I felt like the life had been sucked out of my body. As I held the phone to my ear with all of the energy I could summon I could hear my mothers frantic, devastated voice in the background on the other end. She kept asking the paramedics if he was going to be OK as they did their best to put the life back into my fathers limp body. Needless to say, their best efforts were not enough.
My father was a rock in my life. I could always call him for advice and I still find myself going to pick up the phone when I have questions that I would have called him about in the past. I miss the simple things about my father like the fuzz on his head that would tickle my nose as I kissed him on the forehead to tell him goodbye. I regret not spending more time with him towards the end, I am ashamed that I let life get in the way.
I blogged about my fathers passing two days after his death and it was the basis for the talk I gave at his funeral service. I am so grateful for the time I had with him, I only wish I would have been around more.
Here are a few images that made me smile.
That’s me in the middle with the mullet
December 6, 2009 - 11:12 pmSteph Riedel - Beautiful photos and great memories !!
I just lost my mom a week ago tomorrow.....grief is such a strange and weird thing. I had 3 days while she was in the hospital to talk to her and she responsed in ways that I consider blessings !!
Life got in the way for me also and I feel sad for that.....but I'm going to live with purpose and try and be there for my dad now.....
thanks for posting
I work with models on a regular basis for my stock photography as well as to help them build their own portfolio’s and I really enjoy it. I worked with Libby and Dyson a while back and these are just a couple of images from their AWESOME shoots! I know I am posting a lot high key images with white backgrounds and I know what your are thinking… Does he only shoot high key images on white backgrounds? No, this is not the only style I shoot. I just have a lot of images like this that I have shot lately so I’m posting them.
I get a lot of questions from photographers asking how I get completely white backgrounds. I do this entirely in the camera, I don’t use photoshop at all to accomplish this. I am in the process of capturing my lighting setup in a lighting diagram which I am planning on making available. Leave me a comment and let me know if you are interested and if I get big enough response I will post the lighting diagram for free on my blog. If you really want to know how to do this feel free to have all of your photographer friends leave a comment too… like I said if I get a big enough response I will post it on my blog as a free download.
If you are a photographer, stylist or creative director and would like to work with either of these two amazing models please click on the “contact” link in the menu and send me a quick note and I will forward you their contact info.
I hope you enjoy them… feel free to leave a comment at the bottom letting me know what you think.
January 24, 2010 - 7:04 pmValerie - Oh yes!!! I would really be interested in this diagram! Love your work by the way! ; )
December 23, 2009 - 1:34 pmCamilla - Just came across you site. Beautiful work. Would love to know your diagram, I don't use a studio right now, but it would be awesome to know. Thanks for you generosity!
December 13, 2009 - 11:58 pmJess - Sweet shots! I dont have a studio or anything...but I'd love to know how you get the white background! :)
December 6, 2009 - 11:15 pmSteph Riedel - LOVE the white background !!! share this fab tip if you can !!
thanks
December 3, 2009 - 9:25 amAmanda Mendenhall - Ryan, you are seriously AMAZING!! And Libby is just to cute for her own good!! I love them!! Libbs you are so stunning!!! Keep up the good work!! LOVE THEM!!!
One of the best parts of being a photographer is that I get to work with a lot of kids… I LOVE kids. They don’t mind when I act like a 5 year old, they think it’s funny. One of my favorite challenges is to get a shy or stubborn child to be my buddy. This is no easy feat!
Dear parents,
Your children will sense your stress, if you are stressed out or pressure them to be good you will NOT get portraits that capture their natural innocence and personality. Don’t worry if everything doesn’t work out exactly as planned… they’re kids, does anything ever work out as planned? The best thing to do before and during their session is relax and let them be kids. In order to reduce some of the pressure don’t make plans to be anywhere before or after their session… unless it’s to take them to get ice cream in which case you can invite me too.
If you or your spouse are one of those people who are always stressed then the best thing you can do is to find a place where your child won’t see you and let me work with them one on one. I promise that you will be much happier with the final portraits if they can have fun during their session and not be rushed or pushed into doing something they don’t want to do. My experience tells me that kids want to help and want to have fun and that is what I let them do when I photograph them.
Remember:
NO Stress!!
Be prepared, set cloths out the night before.
Don’t make plans to be anywhere before or after your child’s session.
If you have multiple kids bring something to keep them busy during their down time.
by ryan
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