The Blog
I am creative and passionate, but I don’t always update my blog. Check out my Portfolio and Instagram for my most recent projects.
Senior Portraits: The Girls
Portraits: Graduating senior girls photography and posing. It is so fun to get together with other photographers and practice posing and getting good senior portraits. My classmates and I got together and we took graduate senior photos. Here are a few of the photos I...
Watercolor Creative
Watercolor Creative I am not extremely skilled when it comes to hand art (drawing, painting, etc.), but I have always loved painting with water colors. I wish I could say this piece is hand drawn, but it is Photoshopped. I wanted to create a watercolor...
Caricature Portrait
Caricature Portrait What a fun project! I have never tried to make my portrait into a caricature and it was a blast! I love doing creative photography and this little project let me go crazy. My hair has always been a defining feature and I worked to make it really...
Cinemagraphs
I am loving creating cinemagraphs! I have never edited videos or created animations in Photoshop and it is incredible. I discovered that GIFs are a pain to work with though! They take a while to save and then they take special settings to work. These are the...
Incredible Fine Art
Incredible Fine Art This is my third time printing and hanging an incredible fine art piece - at least I think it is pretty incredible! Just a year ago I never would have dreamed of having my art work hang in a beautiful frame for the entire university to see. My...
Indoor Light Painting
Indoor Light Painting Table Top Light Painting Table top light painting is such a fun way to get great lighting without using expensive lighting gear. All you need is a camera, tripod, and a flash light. For each of these photos I used a long exposure from 2 seconds...
Outdoor Light Painting
Outdoor Light Painting Photography This was my first time trying outdoor light painting. We were up at the Sky Mountain Lodge in Victor, Idaho. I used the same technique as Dave Black to light up my subjects. I used a long exposure of 30 seconds and ISO of 100....
Balancing Light
Balancing the Light Balancing the light is a fun way to get a well-lit outdoor portrait without having a blown-out background. I learned this technique from Caryn Esplin when we went on a photo excursion to the Tetons in Idaho and Wyoming. Step 1: Overexpose the...
Extraordinary Shots
Extraordinary Shots Close to Home There is nothing like visiting some place beautiful and interesting and capturing extraordinary shots. I shot most of these photos at Falls Creek Falls, Idaho. I woke up early to hopefully catch the sunrise, but it turned out that...
The Awesome Wyoming
The awesome Wyoming landscapes and wildlife. Is Wyoming awesome or what? I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Wyoming, but I have taken advantage of every moment. I was lucky enough to spend an entire day traveling around the Grand Teton National Park to capture...
Spray the Pepsi
Spray the Pepsi: Mobile Triangle Snoot Photography Sometimes I get a spark of creativity and incredible things happen! For these photos I had the idea to spray the Pepsi bottles with a water bottle and capture the mist. What looks like snow or sparkles is actually...
Lush and Fresh – Fresh Produce Photography
Fresh food photography is a blast because it is fresh and it is food! This shoot tested my creativity because there were a lot of us rotating through stations and I had to come up with a lot fresh ideas to capture unique shots. I mainly used continuous LED lights so I...
Pack It Up! Packaged Food Photography
Packaged Food Photography I am definitely the kind of person that will pay a little more for a product that has a more appealing package. Of course I have my limits, but when it comes to spending an extra 50 cents to get a cool looking water bottle, I am down! The...