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.

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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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