Scapegoat Marketing Shoot

"Scapegoat" is my friend Dave's feature film. It's taken him about three years from start to finish, but he's finally there. He needed some marketing and publicity photo for his movie and I volunteered. I took these photos just before his screening. He has entered the film in the Sundance Film Festival and is looking into other festivals.

Katie

Portraits

I did a photo session a while back with Russ Bowen, a news anchor and reporter at the station. Russ and I worked together nights when I was a news editor. He was volunteering at a charity dinner and needed a photo to help promo the event. We had a fun time shooting. Russ is great in front of the camera, its no wonders he’s a good anchor.

I managed to get a photo of Dave while I was at it. Dave is the guy I work with in promotions. You may remember him from a previous chronicle I did when we were shooting a promo in Brevard. He stands in front of a camera with the same reluctance a child would display going to the dentist. I only convinced him to stand in for me because I needed help adjusting my lights for Russ’s shoot. I got one really awesome shot of him that I really like, but that’s as much of a smile as I could get out of him.

Katie

Baby Brandon

Remember a while back how I said the two most difficult things you can shoot are animals and children? Well I must just love the challenge of it, because I had to go and tackle the children half of that feat. I was so excited that my trip down to Florida happened to be right after my cousin’s baby was born. I’ve never shot a newborn and I was ready to go all Anne Geddes on him. Brandon, the baby, had different plans.

The first night I was there, he couldn’t settle down and sleep. He also didn’t want to lay down, or be held in any of the ways I wanted him held. He would seem to relax and then when everything was in position, he would start crying. I did get a few nice shots that night, but it wasn’t nearly what I had hoped. Luckily I was able to go back the next day and Brandon slept through the entire shoot. I guess what I’ve learned from all this is that children and animals work on their own schedules and you just have to be patient enough to wait for them…that and catching them while they’re sleeping helps too.

Katie

Catalog Shoot

Here are some highlights from the catalog shoot I finished last month. I had to shoot a myriad of products, which made the job very challenging, but also very interesting. I shot everything on a white background so they could all be easily cut out and placed on different color backgrounds for the final catalog. Next up, the cover shoot.

Katie