Creative Session: Camryn is “Soaked”
After a teaser picture from this series generated some excitement on our Facebook page, I decided to make a blog post detailing how and why we made this set of imagery. Let me get the fact out of the way that our model for the day, Camryn Little, brought an intensity and imperviousness to the [...]
Underwater Sirens BTS
Ah, this post has been a long time coming. The “Underwater Sirens” Series was the culmination of a month long planning and preparation this past August. We tested and tweaked our settings and camera setups until we go to the point where we can express underwater in the same way we do above. This post [...]
Fallen Sirens
The tall ship rocked in the waves. The unluckly sailor either cursed or fated to leave this world is cast into the vastness of the ocean. The first and close to the last thought to enter his consciousness is creatures like you three have longs since abanoned this world. Fallen sirens feasting on those that [...]
Underwater Testing: Part Two
Part One is Here Going to talk about 2 new parts of underwater photography that we are starting to get our heads around. The first topic today is external lighting. We last left you last time with successfully getting our camera to fire a remote flash by radio signal as long as the flash (trasmitter [...]
Katha: Underwater Portraits
Continuing in our underwater portrait adventures, we went a bit more thematic this time around as we tested the pool that I hope to use for future shoots. The theme was a songwriter’s dream. Our lovely model Katha, moonlighting here as our subject is a singer songwriter in the real world. We wanted to take [...]
Kelli Senior Portraits: Under & Above – Austin, Texas
Let me start by commenting on how adventuresome Kelli is in her choices for portraits. She searched us out because we are different and challenged me to come up with photographs that illustrate her interests to this point. One of her interests is competitive swimming, 200 Freestyle was her event. The testing we did yesterday [...]
Underwater Testing: Part One
Summer in Texas is hot, make that a capital “H” Hot!. Shooting outdoor portraits in the summer HOT months aren’t a whole lotta fun. So last summer we rented some underwater gear and tested out shooting cool portraits underwater in places like the spring fed Comal River. After dealing with the cumbersomeness of the Aquatech [...]
Summer Underwater Portrait Series Details
Following up on the success of our underwater portraits from last summer, we are again offering a unique opportunity to have amazingly creative portraits made while underwater. These sessions are super for creative portraiture, maternity, and engagement/couple portraits. Models and Creatives types, these sessions would look epic in your look book. The look and lighting [...]
Kara & Joe – Engaged and Dreaming
So we save the steamiest of our underwater photography sessions for last. Kara and Joe have become recently engaged and no amount of cold water will dampen the fires that burn for each other. My scuba goggles fogged up more than once…
Kevin & Alyssa – Cold Comal, Warm Hearts
Way number one to break the ice on an engagement shoot? Fall down the moss covered stairs of the Comal River while warning of the impending danger. Twice. Yep, even before our intrepid couple got in the water, yours truly had fallen into the water twice. Everything was downhill from there. ba dah bing!
Ivy Underwater, More Learning – Pflugerville, Texas
More learning from the underwater shooting! Such a difficult process to get the images that I want. Thanks to Ivy K! for coming out and helping me out underwater, she did wonderful bringing golf clubs and pink hand wraps. My niece helped out by standing on my shoulders to keep me submerged, need to pick [...]
Emily Underwater – Creative – Austin, Texas
For an upcoming shoot we decided that some underwater shots would be perfect. Having never photographed with an SLR underwater before it made sense to take some practice sessions. Emily had been posting updates on her arm sleeve tattoo of a giant squid, first in outline, then in color. I also knew that she would [...]
We specialize in on-location portraiture utilizing natural and additional lighting. Our talents often place us at weddings, in front of high school seniors, with families as they gather, and endurance sporting events.