THIS IS THE MOST COMPLEX IMAGE I'VE EVER CREATED. ...three hours to drive out to joshua tree national park... ...an hour to hash out the details in my head... ...myself, jaclyn, and michael working for an hour to shoot it all on site... ...three hours of work in photoshop to put it all together... ...all TOTALLY WORTH IT. sometimes ideas just hit. we were driving out to this shoot in the desert with rachel and andy and i was trying to figure out a way to creatively shoot the five looks superstyling stylist, coordinator, and friend extraordinaire angel swanson had put together for us....then this just hit. i didn't really think it would be nearly this difficult to complete, but i love me a good challenge :) so here is how we did it... 1) setup tripod in middle of desert with a clear 180 degree panoramic to shoot 2) position rachel in the middle of the frame centered on top focus point so i could keep her consistently in the same position in each of the five frames. 3) setup profoto flash head directly behind and above lens 4) measure distance from tripod to rachel to keep light and focus the same each frame when we started rotating...the only thing we had to measure with was a sheet...so ya, we tied a sheet to the tripod and had rachel hold it taught before each shot....super classy. 5) get rachel done up in look one. 6) shoot 7) change look 8) rotate camera on tripod 9) move light to stay inline with lens at same distance 10) reposition rachel with super classy sheet method 11) shoot 12) repeat 13) repeat 14) repeat 15) repeat 16) do the happy dance (while secretly hoping all of it worked) * * * PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE IMAGE ALL LARGE AND SEXY!!! * it will either open in your browser huge, then just scroll around to check it out or if it opens small, you can usually click it to zoom in...or if all else fails, right click that link and download it :) ENJOY!

sondraandbenWIN :)

what's the best way to start out one of the most exhausting weeks of the year? with two shootshops in vegas right before WPPI of course! :) we had an absolute blast meeting 44 new photofriends at our two shootshops in vegas...we seriously couldn't have asked for two cooler groups of people!!! for our demo shoots on each day we took a party bus out into the desert to a big open drainage ditch...it was awesome :) luckily no one died or broke an ankle trucking down into the ditch....the only casualty was one of our pocketwizards that fell off our lightstick, down the ditch during an off camera lighting demo :( our models both days we super duper, a huge thanks to josh and kelly for modeling on friday and brooke and braden for modeling on saturday! check out a few of our favorites from the shoots below....and be sure to check out the behind the scenes slideshow below the pics :) a special thanks to our fab shootshop sponsors! renaissance albums colorati totally rad actions simply canvas shootsac colorshift actions

dropping rocks behind your your couple is always a good time :)

right after this shot, our pocketwizard jumped off our lightstick and down the ditch to it's death :(

CHECK OUT THIS RAD BEHIND THE SCENES SLIDESHOW OF OUR FRIDAY, MARCH 5TH SHOOTSHOP! if you're reading this in a RSS feed, hop on over to our blog to check it out :) * special thanks to jonathan from encarnacion photography, christine kufske from click photography, and rob drago from rad | photographer for shooting all these amazing behind the scenes pics :) :) :)

being a parent and a photographer is weird. we have this awesome gift to document life so when our family life is happening all around us, we try to always be shooting it. we truly feel that while our work for clients a HUGE part of our lives and something we're deeply passionate about, documenting our family is the most important work we can do. for many of you that have been following this blog for a while you've seen our dear grace grow up, jasper be born, our travels, and lots of things inbetween. while we love posting personal images on this blog (and will continue to do so), the quantity of personal images that we're creating now would totally overtake this blog... sooooooooooo we've come up with a solution for our gazillion personal images...announcing our brand spankin new PERSONAL BLOG!!! stop on by and take a peek around :) we've filled it up with all of the important images we've taken since the beginning of the year. lots of film pics, videos, random stuff, pics from back in the day, tons of pics of the kiddos, trips, etc. we've also made it a goal to shoot pretty much all of our personal life on film, so you'll find plenty of film luvin on there too! if you're into it, you can add it to your RSS reader too :) ENJOY!

remember the amazingly awesome couple grace and chris who got married in italy last year? well, they're still awesome...aaaaaaaaand they're about to be parents!!! REPRODUCTION WIN!!!

when i first started in photography, before i had ever photographed a person, i used to just get in my car and drive drive drive until i saw something i liked, then i would take pictures. i would usually end up out in the middle of nowhere shooting quiet, broken down places. since we've had a photography business for going on eight years now, sadly, i've done less and less of this process that made me fall in love with photography in the first place. i had kids, got busy, and sold all my film cameras when we had no money and were struggling to buy all of our digital gear for our business. in the past few months i've been having a nostalgic longing to get back in bed with film and i've been buying up (ironically) all of the cameras i used to shoot with and i must say it has totally reinvigorated my love for photography. in that spirit, my dear friend and amazing associate shooter, michael chan headed out for three days of cruising around the desert with our film cameras to shoot whatever we saw. i am happy with the frames i made, but i realized i am actually much happier with the process...shooting everything on a full manual hasselblad has such a nice rhythm to it: walk...see...meter...frame...shutter...CHA-CHUNK (love the hasselblad mirror sound)...wind film...see more :)

theRADICALisfound :)

...i went to a gas station...then took some pictures.

i triple dog dare you to find a family cooler than the heits!

kids don't need to drop a "what the eff bomb", their face says it all :)

a litte couple time during a family session is always a good time :)

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