Final Sneak Peak of the Wedding!

What a crazy week.  My time off has turned into nothing but work as usual lol.  I did manage to finish all my edits for Tawni and Bradd's wedding though, and now i am just waiting on the images from Willie.

Here is my last sneak peak before the web gallery is posted!

Wedding Update!

So i have been working hard the last few days on the edits for Bradd and Tawni's wedding.  I have done all the "getting ready" stuff and just finished the "First Look" images. I wanted to post 3 images i got done. These two are just too amazing!

The Fry Family

So i am officially done with this, my second to last session, here at Brooks.  I got and A in my independent study and got very good feedback on my work i produced this session from my advisor.  It was a blast, but now i am in full retouch mode.

I just finished the Senior Graduation images and got those ordered today, now i am working on the Fry Family shoot that i did that same weekend and Bradd and Tawni's beautiful wedding.  There is so much to edit and so little time before Christina and Sam's wedding it is almost hard to think about lol.

Here is a sneak peak at the Fry Family!

Bradd and Tawni's Wedding

This weekend Willie and I photographed Bradd and Tawni's wedding.  It was a beautiful wedding, lots of fun, amazing people, and an all around great time.  Willie and i are now hard at work editing the great images we got, and i wanted to post just a little teaser for everyone.

We had some great locations to shoot at, and everyone was a trooper battling the heat. Here is a peak and the photos of Bradd and Tawni.

I will be posting little bits here and there as i get them retouched.

EXCITEMENT!!!!

So with only 4 days till Grad Review i think i have finally finished the images for my portfolio, and i and SUPER happy with the layout.  OK now for the amazingly exciting news.

Kate finished my website and launched it today!!!! jcharlesphotography.com   i absolutely LOVE it, she is AMAZING at what she does!  I have also updated my blog as you can see so that my visual identity now matches on everything.

And now it's time for some images.  Last week for my independent study i focused on Editorial portraiture and LOVE what i got out of the two shoots i did.  The first shoot was with the amazing and beautiful miss Katie Starcevich.  We went with the Tina Fey Vanity Fair look for the main images. 

I also shot another friend form High school Nick Davis.  This shoot was a mix of my own creative side and some posting from Vanity Fair and Detail shoots.

This part of the shoot was more conceptual then the rest.  I was going for a movie persona, but i don't know what movie lol.  It was mostly just a set of images i have had in my head for a while now.

I was also lucky enough to capture these beautiful shots of Katie during our shoot.  I was inspired by an image of Meryl Streep from a Vanity Fair issue.

I also did some NIK to this image of Nick and really like how it turned out. 

Week 1

What a week.  I am finally starting to shoot stuff that i have been wanting to for a LONG time now.  Experimenting with my portrait style is what this session is really all about for me.  This week i wanted to explore a more fashion oriented approach in the styles of both Gap (that i posted last week) and American Eagle. My wonderful friend Kelly and Shane from high school were awesome and modeled for me, and i was extremely pleased with the results.   The top set of image was a combination of the American Eagle and Gap ad look, the outdoor stuff was American Eagle inspired and the final black and white was Gap inspired.  

                                      

Next week is editorial style.  The wonderful Katie and Nick will be modeling for those shoots.  I am super excited for those cause they will have a theme and persona...the stuff that is right up my ally.  I already know what i will be doing with Nick so i just have to pin down Katie's persona. Stay tuned! 

Some Me shooting

Wow what a week it has been.  Last weekend i shot the Lassen High Senior Prom and that was intense and a lot of fun.  That one job took everything i have learn in the last three years and put it into actual practice for 3 hard working straight hours.  I posed a group of 16....i nearly died lol.  But overall it was a blast and i got a LOT of experience out of it.  here's a shot that i did for fun with one of the couples. 

and one of Shelby and her date

And FINALY after long last a bit of shooting for myself...well kinda.  These are for my Independent study next session and i LOVE how they have turned out so far.  I have another shoot tomorrow to do some American Eagle type shoots.  First model is Shane and the second is Julianna.