You may have seen some of the video clips in this new video, but you haven't seen all the wonderful images that we captured during this photo shoot for KNTR. These were shot in the Biltmore Estates in a beautiful home by the golf course. We had the entire home to use for our project and as you can see, took advantage of the 14,000 sq. ft. home. Please enjoy this video in "HQ" mode for the best viewing. The outfits our young ballerina was wearing were compliments of Ballet Arizona.
We had a great Arizona Professional Photographers Studio Tour here on Sunday. It was a small group which allowed for more question and answer during the presentation and the Location Lighting demonstration outside. We had a lovely model, Jin Cha, who posed for us as I demonstrated the benefits and proper usage of location "studio" style lighitng outside in my posing areas. I use an Elinchrom Ranger pack on location with 1100 watts of lighting power derived from its own battery power source. I demonstrated with our model in light shade with the sun behind her, and with sunlight directly on her face. When you have the right equipment and the know how, you can overcome the normally harsh contrasty lighting outside and create beautiful images! Take a look at the sample image below from the demonstration. Here Jin is in light shade with our lights creating beautiful soft "modeling," highlights, and seperating her from the background at the same time.
I hope you will enjoy this compilation of images from the past several years. I wanted to show some of my award winning images and some of the many diverse styles of portraiture that I do. There are images from my new portrait studio as well as many from on location photo sessions. Please watch in HD Quality and turn on your speakers!
Here is an awesome music video I created using still images and HD video clips taken of Stev Skye performing and winning at a recent Blues contest. Stev won the District level King of the Blues contest at Guitar Center recently and will be competing in Texas at the next level of the contest. Have a look and listen to Stev playing his hot brand of the Blues.
I thought you might like to see an awesome composite image I created recently. I used one of my favorite shots of my High School Ambassador Natalie as the subject. Recently when the moon was full, I captured a cool shot of the moon in clouds. I then used Natalie's image, less the original white background, composited over the image of the full moon. This is the result:
(If you are in your senior high school year and you would like to apply for a Senior Ambassador position, contact Apatrou Photography)
Here is a great sample portrait of my most recent "guy" senior, John B. John takes a mean portrait and is a senior at Shadow Mountain High School. This turns out to be one of his parents favorite shots too. This photo will be around as a fond remembrance of his High School years.
Here is a photo from Wednesday evening from the King of the Blues contest at Gruitar Center Phoenix. Stev Skye, aka Stephen Tyszka, was crowned the District Winner and will go be going on to the next level of the competition. Here is one shot from the competition. Watch this blog for a music video which we are working on next. Check out Stev's website at www.stevskye.com.
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