New website, guys! So you might have to update your links if you bookmarked a page on my old site! Yayyyy, I love my new site, it makes me happies.
www.moxiebluephotography.com
And the new underwater pics have finally been added.
Lyndsi and Antonio's engagement session and a family beach session, too! <3 <3
Looking forward to starting a brand new year with a big bang!!
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Reflections on Jessica... | Orange County Underwater Photographer
I'm probably going to do these for all of the models, since I have to stare at them a good 45 min to an hour while I compose their portrait in photoshop.
Jessica and I have had a complex relationship throughout the years. I have issues, I'll come right out and say it. I see a beautiful girl come into my workplace and I immediately stick her in the "competition folder" and leave her there. Which is where Jessica Dru sat for many years, in my competition folder. Which confused her and exhausted me.
Fast forward a few years to where I don't work there anymore and no longer care about competition and I realize that I probably missed out on quite a few years of a really good friendship. And I'm woman enough to admit that. Jessica isn't just beautiful, but she's smart and talented and every boy I have ever known has been alittle lot in love with her. I can see why.
Jessica and I both love characters, we love the detail that goes into creating characters, we love putting that character into situations outside where the creator has put them. I think Jess and I have created "Fan fiction Portraiture," lol. And I'm definitely down with that. Having a subject that gets it makes my work a million times better.
I love my models. Every single one of them.
Here's one of Jessica.
Jessica and I have had a complex relationship throughout the years. I have issues, I'll come right out and say it. I see a beautiful girl come into my workplace and I immediately stick her in the "competition folder" and leave her there. Which is where Jessica Dru sat for many years, in my competition folder. Which confused her and exhausted me.
Fast forward a few years to where I don't work there anymore and no longer care about competition and I realize that I probably missed out on quite a few years of a really good friendship. And I'm woman enough to admit that. Jessica isn't just beautiful, but she's smart and talented and every boy I have ever known has been a
Jessica and I both love characters, we love the detail that goes into creating characters, we love putting that character into situations outside where the creator has put them. I think Jess and I have created "Fan fiction Portraiture," lol. And I'm definitely down with that. Having a subject that gets it makes my work a million times better.
I love my models. Every single one of them.
Here's one of Jessica.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Underwater Portrait Photography
So I'm sitting in a workshop with about twenty other people and, yes, for those of you who know me, I talked too much, I did that irritating nervous laugh that most of you associate with me having done something wrong. What had I done wrong? I had dared to present myself as a photographer in a room full of photographers.
By the next day, the nervous laugh was gone, do you know why? I finally believed I belonged there, I didn't feel apologetic for taking up their time, I didn't feel like I wasn't worthy to sit in a room full of other photographers, who, in all likelihood, felt the same as I did. I didn't have my patented nervous laugh because I no longer felt like I shouldn't be there, like a fraud. Suddenly, listening to how everyone else struggled with things beyond F-stops and Off Camera Flash, but more importantly, how they struggled with income and confidence, I saw that we were all in the same boat and in the end, we were all for each other.
I was worried I was going to be ridiculed for my dream. My dream is to have my studio in a house with a pool. My dream is that I can capture my clients at their most vulnerable. In a place where they don't have as much control over their environment, a place where they can't control where their clothes will go, where their hair will end up, it flies all around them in a storm where they can't breathe. Everything is quiet and still, I can't tell them, "Eyes to camera", I can't give them my nervous laugh, it's just me and them and the camera and strobes...
and the water.
The water is where, when they look at me, it's them. The true person under it all. I see the courage, the strength, the willpower, the sheer beauty of everyone when they turn and look at this strange creature, holding what looks like some weird spider against her masked face, and they show me the true person they are. It's such a fleeting moment, since many of them can't stay under long, but for the time that they are under there, they're all in. They're with me, they've committed to showing me who they are.
I love underwater portrait photography. And by the end of my workshop, everyone in that room knew it. They said I lit up like a Christmas tree when I talked about it and I knew that not one of them was going to tell me that it couldn't be done. Not because they didn't believe in it, but because in the end... they believed in me.
Thank you, Dane Sanders and Fast Trackers... you made it worth the money we didn't have to attend.
And because a post isn't much fun without pictures:
By the next day, the nervous laugh was gone, do you know why? I finally believed I belonged there, I didn't feel apologetic for taking up their time, I didn't feel like I wasn't worthy to sit in a room full of other photographers, who, in all likelihood, felt the same as I did. I didn't have my patented nervous laugh because I no longer felt like I shouldn't be there, like a fraud. Suddenly, listening to how everyone else struggled with things beyond F-stops and Off Camera Flash, but more importantly, how they struggled with income and confidence, I saw that we were all in the same boat and in the end, we were all for each other.
I was worried I was going to be ridiculed for my dream. My dream is to have my studio in a house with a pool. My dream is that I can capture my clients at their most vulnerable. In a place where they don't have as much control over their environment, a place where they can't control where their clothes will go, where their hair will end up, it flies all around them in a storm where they can't breathe. Everything is quiet and still, I can't tell them, "Eyes to camera", I can't give them my nervous laugh, it's just me and them and the camera and strobes...
and the water.
The water is where, when they look at me, it's them. The true person under it all. I see the courage, the strength, the willpower, the sheer beauty of everyone when they turn and look at this strange creature, holding what looks like some weird spider against her masked face, and they show me the true person they are. It's such a fleeting moment, since many of them can't stay under long, but for the time that they are under there, they're all in. They're with me, they've committed to showing me who they are.
I love underwater portrait photography. And by the end of my workshop, everyone in that room knew it. They said I lit up like a Christmas tree when I talked about it and I knew that not one of them was going to tell me that it couldn't be done. Not because they didn't believe in it, but because in the end... they believed in me.
Thank you, Dane Sanders and Fast Trackers... you made it worth the money we didn't have to attend.
And because a post isn't much fun without pictures:
Friday, September 10, 2010
Ravenclaw Kierstin | Orange County Underwater Photographer
So, here is my niece in my Ravenclaw costume, yes, that's right, I said mine. Being a geek aside, I realized how many missed opportunities we could have had with this costume, floating objects and what not. Le sigh.
I loved her facial expressions in these, they're a lot of fun! Click for a larger image.
I loved her facial expressions in these, they're a lot of fun! Click for a larger image.
Stephanie the Fire Goddess | Orange County Underwater Photographer
Stephanie is back in her red sari this time. I love the dichotomy of the red vs blue on her and she looks amazing in both colors. I was hoping I'd pick up some of the red in hair, but the water just swallows it in all of that brunette glory and makes it even darker. As usual, though, she rocked it out.
Click for a larger view.
Click for a larger view.
Fraulein Kim | Orange County Underwater Photographer
Kim is super special to me. Not only does she have the distinction of being the first bride to let me photograph her wedding, she's also the first bride that let me trash her dress! I adore Kim, she's a school teacher and a mom and she's super sweet. She has a crazy sense of humor and she's not afraid to give good eye in a photo.
Click for a larger view.
Click for a larger view.
Shoshana | Orange County Underwater Photographer
Does it look like she's drowning?
Shoshana is one of my very best friends, and last shoot she was there strictly in a assistant capacity. I really wanted to convince her to model this time, as I think she's beautiful! Last shoot, my niece kind of froze up under the pressure of modelling under the water, and this time it was Shoshana who got a little overtly nervous. She was having trouble staying under for very long, and I'm fairly certain it was because she stressed herself out, which is the same reason I had trouble last time, as well.
Underwater modelling takes a certain amount of self-relaxation technique, and I'm pretty sure she's going to really enjoy herself the second time, haha. Here are her shallow end photos, please click for a larger version.
Shoshana is one of my very best friends, and last shoot she was there strictly in a assistant capacity. I really wanted to convince her to model this time, as I think she's beautiful! Last shoot, my niece kind of froze up under the pressure of modelling under the water, and this time it was Shoshana who got a little overtly nervous. She was having trouble staying under for very long, and I'm fairly certain it was because she stressed herself out, which is the same reason I had trouble last time, as well.
Underwater modelling takes a certain amount of self-relaxation technique, and I'm pretty sure she's going to really enjoy herself the second time, haha. Here are her shallow end photos, please click for a larger version.
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