The last 7 Days

The last week of school begins today.  It's bittersweet.  

Just wanted to post some inspiration and an image from last week.

So the song Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machine has been some awesome inspiration lately.

And while helping Kate move to Silver Lake I discovered the work of August Bradley...it was amazing.

http://www.augustbradley.com/#s=0&mi=1&pt=0&pi=1&p=-1&a=0&at=0

Check him out!

Last Brooks Assignment

So for my last Brooks assignment (I don't really count the Turkey shoot as an assignment) we were suppose to photograph a bride and groom in a church. Well i didn't really follow the assignment at all.  I took Willie (my trusted model number 1) and Kate (trusted model number 2) to the Santa Barbara court house....during fiesta....while it's being renovated because of a fire that happened in January.  Yeah biggest waste of time ever LOL.  But i got a few good things out of it, nothing that really goes with the assignment, but at this point i fail to care anymore LOL.

We are suppose to have 10m images for the assignment....this is gonna be a rough crit hahaha.

Final images of Brianna and Brooks

So as the session hits the midway point my Wedding class has peaked with the assignments i am gonna try on lol.  My final two assignments are a church bride and groom (which i am just going to have fun with and not be serious at all) and the Turkey shoot where we shoot our instructor Tim and his beautiful wife.

For our last assignment we had to shoot a Bride and Groom in studio.  I LOVE how the image of Brooks turned out in this one; one of my all time favorites. 

I would like to thank Bri and Brooks for all the modeling they have done for me this session, I do not know what i would have done without you both!

It's week 4

oh week 4...only 3 more till graduation....

So when i woke up this morning i continued on some retouching work for my next assignment in class.  When i was done i sat back for a minute and looked at my desktop...

I have so much on here right now...my assignments, graduation images, Tawni's wedding album pages and images, Christina's wedding images, inspirational images, screen grabs of random things, there was a paper profile, and just a bunch of other stuff.  It's a fairly accurate representation of how crazy life is right now lol.

So tonight i need to back all this up onto my hard drive...it may take all night LOL.

Outdoor Bride and Groom

Last week I once again photographed the beautiful Brianna and her husband Brooks.  I enjoyed how these came out, i wish i would have done a few more detail shots, but i love how these look.  They are so great together and a joy to photograph.

Bradd and Tawni's Wedding Video

Youtube hates me. It took me so long and 3 re-edits before youtube would let me upload....haha fun times.

And the End begins

After 3 years it is finally here, my last session at Brooks. I am taking the Wedding class with the amazing Tim and i love it.  Right now i have so much to edit and get done it's almost dizzying.  Our first two assignments in Wedding were to create a 30+ page album from Tim's wedding photos and photograph an engagement session.

Thankfully i know a few couples that got married just a few weeks ago so i am set for models this session (and gorgeous ones at that). I photographed Brianna and her husband Brooks for my engagement session and i love the images from it. I have been doing a lot of experimenting with natural like images and working with backlight and that fancy lens flair...it's so artsy it hurts lol.

My list of things to do keeps getting longer but i am hoping i will get a good chunk done tomorrow. On my list: Finish the album for class, start Tawni's wedding (which i should be able to finish in a few hours cause i know what i want it to look like), i need to start the editing process on Christina's wedding, but i need lightroom to show up! and prep for my outdoor bride and groom, studio bride and groom (this requires going to davids bridal with Karen, Stephanie, and Taylor for wedding dress shopping...i wish i had the dress Tawni had for her wedding. I think i might be obsessed with it and that style lol) and photograph my Bride and groom in a church environment (i need a church!).  Also i have to begin the sorting through all my images for the graduation gallery and ceremony....fun....not.

As time seems to speed up to graduation day i might be starting to freak out a little inside...and it verbalizes itself every now and then when kate and i talk about what we are gonna do after school.  I wont lie i am desperately trying to not go back home at all, but i think it's going to have to happen at least for a little while...and i hate it.

Anyways here are the images from my session with Bri and Brooks!

On a fun note i will be finishing LOST tonight...it only took me a month to get through all 6 seasons LOL.