The blogging madness continues!! A few days ago, we were happy to see a flower girl from a wedding we did a while back. Anya performed well for Rebecca & Jesse and is hoping to do more performing on stage soon. Here's a few headshots we grabbed for her to use. Thanks to Nikki for the great hair/makeup work and to our house for being a good blurry background!
Last fall we shot Megan and Andy's wedding. We love shooting photos of kids, and the flower girl loved us for it! She's a model in the making. This week, we got a chance to meet the whole family and it's pretty clear where she gets it from. Sometimes the simplest shoots are the best. We shot these in their backyard and got plenty of exercise chasing these guys around for a while. Enjoy!
I’m so in love with this family. You captured everything wonderful about them! I will never forget how Sofia wanted her picture taken just like me. Fantastic job as usual!
What a sensationally beautiful family shoot. That first black and white is total perfection – if that were my family I’d buy the world’s biggest canvas print of that and hang it in my living room. It’s just so stunning and timeless. Great work!
You guys make me think “Man, I can’t wait to have kids so Tony and Amy can capture amazing shots like this for mine and Ed’s walls!” Haha… then I remember, we need to get through the wedding first! :)
Hey there everybody! It's great to be back posting photos. February is always a pretty slow month (and intentionally so) for shoots for us, so thanks for bearing with us during a vacation and small hiatus. I can't tell you how excited I am to be back shooting and for some of the amazing weddings and trips we have planned to shoot in the next few month...
For now, here's some portraits of Carly from the other day. Carly helped out a few weeks ago when we were filming our Workflow DVD and didn't have any modeling experience. She's a complete natural though...
yeah nice
Wow, absolutely stunning. How did you achieve that lighting?!
Beautiful Work! What lenses were you using?
I shot some photos for Kate a few months ago and was happy to get back out to her parent's house for some more this week. The weather was GORGEOUS and since I had a cancelled shoot, what better time? Here's a few quick edits to get up before Easter!
Hope you all have a fantastic holiday weekend. Don't get too caught up in bunnies and eggs, there's a lot more important stuff that this weekend is about :)... See ya'll next week!
My favorite...
Wow! Great set of pictures. Kept thinking they couldn’t get better and then I would scroll down and they would.
Your favorite is my favorite. Love it. Love how you didn’t over retouch out the “blemishes” – great shot.
Awesome work! what lens did you use. Love the bokeh!
GORGEOUS bokeh!
Awesome work! what lens did you use. Love the bokeh!
Awesome work! what lens did you use. Love the bokeh!
Heyooo! It's Friday, and the start of a wonderfully exciting weekend for us. Hopefully all ya'll had a great week! Yesterday I got a chance to head out and shoot with Andrea, who I photographed last year with her then boyfriend (now fiance) Bill. I've been so thankful for this great weather (at least 'great' for January) lately, so I was so happy to be able to get back while we had the chance. Despite the fact that it wasn't freezing, it still wasn't easy for Andrea to be out there in a dress, so a big internet high-five to her for braving the cold!
Much like shooting Kate the other week, it's remarkable that Andrea has never done this before. You rock girl.
Yeah Yeah Yeah! Sooo jealous. Tony… your fan group grows by the day out in Pittsburgh. Blogstalking is now a past time.
Oh yeah and Andrea… you look hot too. Favorite one is second to last in the hay.
It was worth it for the dress (then again I wasn’t the one out in the cold) – it really made some of those outdoor shots. I love the one in front of the barn. And hey – if Im not mistaken those are my boots!:) Looks like they’ve gotten into some of your photos before me! Good to say a quick “hey” to you yesterday Tony!
AMAZING…as always, Tony!! looks like it was a good decision to grab those shots at the end…everyone seems to love them :) also…i forgot about a 100 year old oak tree thats there…HUGE branches that come down onto the ground, could have had some beautiful shots there..next time =)
That’s it. I’m starting a Tilt-Shift fund for myself.
I’m with Lindsay, Tilt-Shift fund starts today.
Tony knows light.
There's nothing more exhilerating and tiring than a busy wedding season. On the flip side, there's nothing more boring than sitting in my office catching up during the cold winter. However, winter does allow for a few things I haven't done in months. Namely, checking out some other photographers' work, getting inspired by new ideas, buying (and lusting over) new gear, and having some time to shoot for fun. You'll probably notice a combination of all those things here. I bought some new equipment and needed a test subject. Considering that my other option was my friend Nate in a Speedo, I'd say that I made the right choice.
Thanks to Kate for volunteering to model for me and letting me use their property. It was lots of fun! You wouldn't know it from these photos, but Kate is an amateur. Just volunteered and knocked it out of the park. So, here's something a bit different. Just one camera + one Lens. Hope you like em!...
Oh, and if you get a chance, let me know what you think about this slideshow/gallery as a way to display images. I wanted to throw it out there to you faithful blog stalkers to see which way you'd prefer to stalk. Would you rather scroll through, or have a slideshow/gallery? Let me know in the comments. Thanks!
Excellent images and beautifully post processed.
beautiful model+one bada$$ photographer=awesome shoot.
i enjoy the slideshow/gallery…it’s a new year, try something new!
:o)
Beautiful work Tony. Love the new Blog and the slideshow was a great idea, perfect tempo to the image changes as well. Any slower and I would prefer to scroll.
Very nice. 24TS-E? Stellar work as always and Kate sure did great as well!
As for the slideshow… First, they need to stay up longer. Like another one or two seconds. I know it can also be controlled.. I sorta like having them all listed out, even if it might make your pages very long. I like to scroll through images personally. Probably the biggest disadvantage is that you have to use flash for the slideshow. If someone were to come by on a mobile device, there could be issues.
Otherwise, I think its a very nice player and blends very nicely into your site. Which slideshow player are you using?
What about showing a few of my favorites, then having the rest below in a slideshow?
Love the ones taken outside in the gray dress and adore the last shot with her dog.
I look at far more images when they are all displayed for me to scroll through so I am anti-slideshow. I don’t want to wait for the load time plus I use ClickToFlash because Flash is so poorly done on the Mac so by default I don’t even see the gallery.
I’m guessing 45 TS/E?
I see you had to ditch ffffff as the bg color of the slideshow as well… mine was turning turquoise. I was told fffffe was closest, you may want to try that. I would say increase the time by .5 sec, it’s a bit fast especially when viewing two verticals together. I also wanted to ask where you got the share buttons underneath, I want to do something like that on my blog. Come over and leave your comment for me, too! :) Cheers, Kristina
Watch out world, Tony got a new toy! I think the ones like #4 where the out of focus areas are used more subtly are strongest. Awesome work as usual.
I prefer to scroll. Looks like you had some fun with the new toy.
Oh, tilt shift. (right?) These are just lovely. The tops of the trees in that one diptych are mesmerizing. What’s interesting is b/c I subscribe to your blog via google reader, they always come out for me to scroll through. The slide show apparently doesn’t translate into Reader. Interesting.
I have the biggest smile on my face! I LOVE the photos of my sissy! I have soooo many favorites.
In regard to the slideshow, I always skip past them on blogs. I am just very impatient and like to be able to scroll through images…
She is GORGEOUS!! You are lucky to have such good looking friends ;) As for the slideshow, I think I prefer to scroll through. Great work Tony!
Hey Tony,
This is my first time commenting, but I am always looking for your posts on Fred and get excited when I see your name. I love your style. I have been shooting for a year and have learnt so much from you and others and I want to take that opportunity to thank you for sharing with other artists. I really enjoyed the slide show, sometimes I scroll through pictures too quickly and I miss things. So this way really makes you savour every image.
Nice!
I do like the slideshow, especially if the speed is able to be controlled by the viewer. Great shots & she is beautiful!
My only other question is….why didn’t you choose Nate?? ;)
a really lovely shoot… beautiful images & subject! i prefer to scroll
Beautiful!
SCROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
you are awesome. Love the slideshow but only saw it on the desktop not on the iphone…..that would be my ONLY complaint….these are just beautiful!
I had to leave my google reader blog stalking to come post. I was going to say that I wouldn’t be able to view the slideshow on google reader, but all the pictures showed up in my google reader as individual pictures. So now that I’m at your site on my iPhone, i can’t view all the photos. I am not a fan of the slideshows myself. I rarely look at them on other photography blogs.
Love your work! I prefer to scroll through all of the images. I can’t view them one the iphone with a slideshow. Personally I would like to scroll through all instead of just favorites.
Beautiful slide…and work. :)
Srolling for me Tony! Keep up the killer work man.
Great slideshow Tony! However, I’d suggest you do the hybrid: favorites in large images and the rest in a slideshow. The reason being that Google will have an easier time finding the images and indexing them when people do a local images-based search.
Definitely prefer scroll. Great pictures!
What a fierce set of photos. Your model is gorgeous…hard to believe she is an amateur!!! I dig a combo of scroll and then slideshow. I have to admit though I rarely sit throw the slideshow on other photogs websites; BUT I do dig this slideshow set up.
Thanks everybody! I guess the conclusion is that everyone likes the photos and hates the slideshow… Hahaha. Noted!
Love them! Particularly numbers 4 & 11 – the light and the color are so brilliant together.
Georgeous model!
Tony! I actually prefer the slideshow. Scrolling is ok but everytime I try to scroll and the pictures aren’t done loading it keeps pushing the page up and I lose my spot! But if you keep it scrolling, I won’t stop stalking so do what you like best! Also, if you’re ever looking to do an experiment shoot like this again and need somebody, let me know. Always nice to update my pictures!
I know Nate, and I have pictures (and video) of him in that Speedo! You made a good choice.
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OMG. Is that really my kid? She looks so grown up – especially the bottom left. Whoa.
They look so great! Thank you Tony, Amy and Nikki!
it’s amazing how you get the skin tone so clear and ‘white’. how do you get this affect??
Bene, it’s a combination of light and a 9 year old that’s too young to have flaws in her skin… haha
So how did you get your house to be so blurry in the background and your subject is all in focus? I’ve been following your blog for a while now and I’m always seeing this and I’m still perplexed. The only way I can get the subject to be in focus and everything else all blurred is when I’m shooting macro.
I do love this shoot- especially the glorious colors of the turquoise shirt and green background!
Great pictures!! Anya is the most adorable 9 year old and was a delight to work on-I’m so glad I was a part of these! You guys never disappoint :)