Moving my blog to my home page

Hi all just letting you all know I am moving my blog and putting it on my new webstie at www.christianyoungphotography.com

Please come check it out. It has a cool look and feel and more things to do.

Thanks again and see you on the other blog!!!

Ria-lax!! The images from 4.13.08 shoot are up

Hello photography fans,

Well after sorting through about 500 images from this last weekends shoot I finally widdled it down to an initial four to display to the world. The main theme of the shoot was "Here Comes the Bride" and I had an amazingly beautiful and talented model name Ria to help me out with the shots along with the great crew from Aveda Institute Denver to provide hair and makeup and they did a top-notch job as usual. The wedding dressing were furnished by Blue Bridal Couture.

The shoot went great and I think everyone had a real fun time. The first image is a casual but classy look that I think Ria killed.

The second shot I call Ria a Go Go a more fun with a lil attitude shot.

The third shot is one I grabbed from the traditional bridal gown that we used. This one is a lil cheesy with the flower but hey I liked it so...

The last shot is just plan attitude. With an amazing hair and makeup job and just a great pose this shot will definitely make it's way into my personal show portfolio.

Hope you like the pictures.














Thanks and have a great rest of the week.

Christian Young Photography

Upcoming Bridal Shoot

Hello photography fans I just wanted to keep you up to date on my next shoot. On Sunday the 13th I will be doing a portfolio bridal shoot with model Ria. We have once again booked the lovely ladies from Aveda Institure Denver and will be using two amazing dresses from Blue Bridal Couture.

This shot be a very fun and challenging shoot. We will be going for a very avente garde look and feel and should have some great shots for you later next week.

Thanks again for reading my blog.

Have a great week!!


Christian Young Photography

A couple more pics from my March 30th shoot

Hi all just wanted to add a couple more pics from yesterdays shoot.

Told you they were all over the place :)





Hope you like the pics. I will probably post a few more this week then on to the next shoot.

Have a great night!!

Christian Young Photography

Smoking good time on Sunday

Hello photography fans,

Did a shoot with the lovely models Bre and Elise over the weekend and want to post an early shot. The shoot started off with a 50s theme and just went all over the place. You know when you are doing a shot with a Pink Ladies jacket and an ice cream Sunday and an hour later you are shooting and artsy black and white with a single light and a lighter you have really come full circle.

Anyways I will stop rambling and post the first pic from the shoot.





Thanks all and have a great week!


Christian Young Photography

You asked for them so here are some more pictures

Hi all thanks for the emails and comments. I really appreciate all the feedback. I wanted to post a couple more pictures of the shoot for you all to view.

My next shoot is this weekend but I am still trying to iron out a few details so I will let you all know more as soon as I do.

Thanks again and here's some more images for your viewing pleasure.











Thanks all and have a great night!!

Christian Young Photography

OK, OK, I will post a few pictures.

Hi all,

Well with a hour of free time and after reading multiple requests I went through and picked out 3 pictures from the shoot on the 15th and did a lil post processing.

There will be more to come but hope you like them!












Christian Young Photography

It's done and I need a break :)

Well,

I think I am finally recovering from my 8 hour shoot on March 15th. I swear by the end of the shoot I was getting double vision. I don't think my eyes were made to stare through a viewfinder for 6 hours straight :)

Overall I am very happy with the pictures, of which I will be posting early next week. But as a perfectionist I can't help but wishing for more. We had some problems with the weather not co-operating and ended up with overcast skies which didn't do much for the roof shots. Then because of some unforeseen issues the shoot started about 90 minutes late. We also had major issues with the windows turning into mirrors after dark and blowing a couple fuses throughout the night. But hey if you didn't have issues like that you weren't really trying hard enough :)

I was very happy with the talent that showed up. Both models did a great job and came ready to shoot. They were both very professional and enthusiastic and I would recommend them for any shoot and would love to work with them again in the future.

As for the makeup and hair team from Aveda in Denver I can't say thank you enough. I know you were rushed and we had to cut some corners to try to get everything done but, you ladies did a bang up job that will show when everyone sees the pics.

And for the owner of the amazing condo I would like to say thanks again for you generosity and great humor and understanding as we took your beautiful condo and turned it into a photo studio then back again.

I would also like to thank Brian who helped me set everything up, grey card the models, take light readings, and basically help me get the shots we needed.

And last but not least I would like to thank my wonderful wife for supporting me on this shoot and not making me sleep on the couch after seeing the pictures.

Thanks again to everyone!

Well I know everyone is looking forward to the pictures so I will stop rambling and get back to sorting through the 800+ pictures we took. Then on to the post processing :) Thanks again and stay tuned.

Second model announced for March 15th Shoot

Hi all,

I have finally picked the second model for my March 15th shoot. I have booked the lovely and talented Alena to be help make this shoot most memoriable. You can view more of her portfolio at model mayhem.



I am also exctied to announce we have contracted out two very talented ladies from Pure Talent Salon at the Aveda Academy Denver Store to help out with the hair and makeup.

I will be probably making one more update about my shoot later on in the week so please stay tuned.

Thanks again and have a great week.

Christian Young Photography

March 15th shoot is coming along great!!

Here is an update for my March 15th shoot.

I am extremely happy to announce the first model for this shoot. The lovely Veronica Faria, you can view her profile on Model Mayhem, has confirmed that she will be modeling for this shoot.



As for location we have scored an amazing multi-million dollar condo located next to the Denver Art Museum.

For theme we are going for half the shoot as Fashion and the other as Lingerie. SOL Lingerie of Cherry Creek as already booked as our lingerie sponsor and we are in final talks with a couple stores to furnish the Fashion wardrobe.

All in all this is looking to be one HOT shoot.

Thanks for staying tuned please check back when we announce the second model.

Thanks and have a great week.

Christian Young Photography

Some Pictures from this weekends shoot.

Well had an interesting shoot this weekend. For those of you not in Colorado it is sometimes hard to even explain our weather here. On Saturday, the day before the shoot, we had amazing weather, 72 degrees blue skies and so much sun. But ohhhh what 24 hours can bring in the mountains. Sunday I wake up ready for my shoot and know things are probably not gonna go smooth. It is 25 degrees and snowing hard. that is almost a 50 degree drop in one day . WOW!

When we get to the studio everything started going wrong. I walked over to my assistants car in the blowing snow and step in a 8 inch deep puddle of ice cold water, that woke me up. Upon heading to the studio door braving the blowing snow and cold I find that the studio didn't set code pad properly. So I had to call them up and wait 40 minutes for someone to show up to let us in.

After we got in I thought my bad luck was over but I was mistaken. I couldn't for the life of me get my laptop download and show my images in Adobe Lightroom so I ended up just nixing that. Then the cord I got to go from my pocket wizard to my lights didn't work. Just not a good start to my shoot.

But then I settled down and started shooting and remembered why I love doing this. My model for the day was 16 year old, 6'1, blue eyes Taylor and she is just a pleasure to work with. I have posted some pictures from the shoot. This goes to show you that even if everything is against you just persevere and you will prevail.

Christian Young Photography

Shoot with Taylor on Sunday

Just want to say I am looking forward to this weekends shoot with Taylor. I have done 1 and half shoot with this young lady so far and I am always impressed with her maturity, pose and attitude.

One and a half you might ask? Well, the last shoot we tried to do was an outside shoot that ended up getting rained out, literally. We did take a couple shots where we could find the safety of shelter but, not enough to give this young land justice.

I plan on doing three themes for our shoot but you will have to check back to see what they are.

Here is a shot from out first shoot.





Thanks and have a great day!

Christian Young Photography

March 30th Booking with Brooke

I am excited to get a chance to work with Brooke on March 30th. Here is a link to her Model Mayhem Page and a picture.






This should be a great shoot and I will post images, descriptions and settings once they have been post processed.

Thanks and have a great day!

Christian Young Photography

I finally got some new studio lights!!

I finally broke down and purchased two brand new Alien Bee B1600 lights.

And yes they are yellow. I should be doing about 3 studio shoots in the next few weeks so I will keep you up to date on what I think of these units. But I do have a couple friends who have these models and love them so I am sure I will too. If you are interested in doing a shoot feel free to send me a line.

Image:

Information:

The AlienBees B1600 is a powerful, self-contained studio flash unit, producing 640 true wattseconds and 1600 effective wattseconds of power, with 28,000 lumenseconds of output. The power is independently adjustable over a stepless 5 f-stop range from Full down to 1/32nd of the total power, in whole f-stop increments, and everywhere in between. This flashpower is independently adjusted on the back control panel, with a slide fader that shows marked f-stop increments. Utilizing advanced durability flash capacitors, coupled with axial-flow thermodynamics, the B1600 minimizes heat build-up, has increased overall durability, and shorter flash durations.

Thanks and have a great day!!

Christian Young Photography

Wedding Photography Site

I have been getting a lot of requests to update and expand my wedding section of my website so over the last week I started to make a personalize wedding photography site off my main site.

You can see it here. Please send me comments or suggestions.

Thanks and have a great day!




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New look new shoot

Well I just found out today that a young lady I did a shoot for finally got her braces taken off and wants to do a new shoot. Although you will agree with me that she was very easy on the eyes before her breaces were off she assures me she will even be even more camera friendly afterwards.

I look forward to the shoot and another great model to work with.

Congrats Taylor!




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First try at maternity pictures.

Not my usual forte but my wife asked me to take some maternity pictures for her. We are expecting a baby girl any week now.

I used my Tameron 28-75 on my Canon 1D Mark II with a flash off camera.

Hope you like the shots.










Thanks and have a great day!!


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My first blog and it is Scary

So sitting at work, my 9-5 job, and trying to come up with a design that is both web 2.0, clean, has white space, and also is SEO compliant. When a friend of mine sends me the following link:

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2008/01/16/70-horror-blood-and-gore-photoshop-effects-and-brushes/

Be careful though it might not be for the faint of heart. Some great photoshop tutorials though!


Sincerely,

Christian

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