David Chin

Recently, while at my brother's wedding photo shoot, I had the opportunity to shoot a few portraits for my friend David Chin.  He was one of the groomsmen in Rick's wedding as well as playing several pieces on piano before the ceremony. 

David has a great gift of making beautiful music and is currently studying at Eastman School of Music in New York.  I expect to hear of him making worldwide tours someday as a internationally acclaimed conductor

I loved the colors that Bethany and Rick chose for the groomsmen!

We found a beautiful back porch on the plantation mansion to shoot pictures.

The brick walkways and neatly trimmed bushes added to the southern charm of the plantation.

Someday you will see this man on a stage leading a world famous orchestra.

Thank you David, for being a Christ honoring musician, and a good model for young people to follow!

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REMINDER!!

This is a reminder!  If you haven't entered the cell phone contest yet, be sure to get you picture in.  


http://photographybyjackmcdonnell.blogspot.com/2011/01/photo-challenge.html

Only three days until the submissions will be closed and you can see the great pics people sent to me!

Photo Tip Tuesday #3

For this Photo Tip Tuesday I am going to keep it short and sweet.

Shoot more pictures!

I know it sounds silly and simplistic, but it took me awhile to learn. (I am still learning it too!) After reading and hearing the same piece of advice from my favorite photographers, I finally realized that it is a real problem in the photography community.

There are many people who work so hard to read up and "study" photography, yet they don't get out and shoot in different situations and gain valuable experience.  


Now don't get me wrong, I think photography resources are VERY important and I study and read up on photography all the time.  You just want to make sure that you have a ton of mileage on your camera trigger finger, to back up all those things that you learned by reading and listening.  


One really good way to learn is to combine the two together and attend a workshop taught by a professional that will let you shoot pictures while learning form their experience.  I know that has helped me take leaps and bounds with my photo work.

A few Florida pictures

Morning breaking over Indianapolis

These clouds looked remarkably like snow drifts from the plane's view!

A random cool building in the historic section of downtown Pensacola.

I was a bit of a bird watcher/photographer yesterday afternoon out on the pier.

These seagulls had almost no fear of humans at all!

A few pelicans joined in the party...

As well as this tall gentleman!

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My first canvas!

Okay, so I was super excited when I heard Rick was going to propose to my sister Lizzie and I decided that this would be a great time to order my first canvas as a gift for them.

I love how it turned out!  It is so crisp and clear and the colors are perfect! Thank you Mpix!

Anyway, without further ado, here are the pictures from last evening when they got back to the house.

We are planning on doing a real engagement photo shoot later on, but I grabbed a few snapshots to share with all our family and friends right away.

Did I mention that I love canvas prints? :o)

They are such a cute couple!  Looking forward to shooting lots more pictures of them together!

Musical ring picture!

Think they are happy about this decision?

Note to self: Buy a chalk board for future photo shoots.

~ Proverbs 18:22 ~

Thoughtful Thursday

Do you ever mix up your editing?

Let me be clear, I am not talking about overall personal style here.  I am talking about getting out of a rut, mixing up your options and trying something new.

Sometimes as a photographer, I find all my pictures looking the same, not bad, not even boring, but a bit repetitive.   When I see that, I try to use something different, whether that means going B&W, sepia, more or less contrast, or even a little Photoshop design.

Maybe it's time to check out a new technique that you have never tried and give it a shot.  But once in awhile, do something different with your photos, just for the learning value if nothing else. 

You may surprise yourself with the fresh results that you get!

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Missing Tip Tuesday

Hey guys!

As you may have noticed, Photo Tip Tuesday is missing.  That is due to the huge blizzard that came through here yesterday and kept me from my computer that I use for the photo tips.

So until next week, thanks for understanding!