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Model shoot: Tracy’s model portfolio photography at the Texas State Capitol!

mistertime — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:20:21 +0000

Tracy’s model portfolio photo shoot took us the the Texas State Capitol. For some of the pictures she brought out a cloak that she had been saving for a special day having never worn it before. As usual, Tracy brought her own brand of intensity to her model photos today.

Hair and Makeup: Thelma at Divaz Fabula
Floral Creations: Craig at Photosynthesis

Bride on the Run: Tracy’s retro 50s bridal portraits at the South Austin Trailer Park and Eatery!

mistertime — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:00:23 +0000

Tracy’s bridal never really ended. I’m sure that there is something else coming our way soon enough for the lovely lady. After the Highball our stylist Thelma changed up Tracy’s look a little bit and we went down to the South Austin Trailer Park and Eatery, a small food trailer lot with a pretty unique place or people to sit down and eat filled with unusual art, painted crap stuck to walls and tire chandeliers.

Makeup and Hair: Thelma at Divaz Fabula
Floral Creations: Craig at Photosynthesis

Seniors! Anna’s senior portraits at Chuy’s in Austin!

mistertime — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:58:11 +0000

I love referrals and about half our business is referrals and increasing more and more every year. I suppose one could consider it a mark of success to move to a new town not knowing anyone and five years later find yourself not needing to advertise at all because you’ve made so many people happy that they tell their friends! Awesome! Anna was referred by a friend to us! We shot Anna’s senior portraits at the Long Center in downtown Austin then ran over to Chuy’s so shoot a few pictures inside and out because Anna love Chuy’s. Who can blame her? I love Chuy’s too and I suppose if I had a place that I would like to have pictures on a special day in my life, it might be at Chuy’s too. That is until In-N-Out Burger comes to town then there might be a new place that I’d like to be photographed! Anyhoo, after Chuy’s we went to the 360 bridge on Lake Austin and finished up with some pretty beautiful images there!

Hair and Makeup: Thelma at Divaz Fabula

Model Porfolio: Katie’s model portfolio shoot on Ladybird lake!

mistertime — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:06:22 +0000

Katie wasn’t a model. Yet. She certainly had the look and seemed extremely comfortable in front of the camera. Her experience in front of the camera was limited to onyly JCPenney’s some time in the past as a youth, though it looks to me as though she might be a natural at modeling. For her model portfolio we chose to shoot on the pedestrian bridge over Ladybird Lake and at the Long Center after the sun had mostly set. It is certainly an amazing model shoot!

Hair and Makeup: Thelma at Divaz Fabula

Back To Basics: Seventh strobe test – Too cold to shoot outside

mistertime — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:55:52 +0000

Megan and I did another shoot today to test out some more stuff with the beauty dish. It’s been a good many days that we’ve been able to shoot and hone these skills and the quality of what we’ve been able to shoot has gotten dramatically better since we began. We’d hoped to shoot outside today, but it was just too dang cold.

Megan brought a chair from her home to shoot and we had a lot of fun seeing how many weird positions she could twist herself into. She says this is the chair that she does all of her post in at home when she’s working on her own projects. What a weird chair to work in. I suppose my trusty sidekick would have a weird chair.

Back to Basics: Sixth strobe test with Megan!

mistertime — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:08:02 +0000

Man the allergies are brutal this time of the year. Megan is my yard stick of allergies because she’s pretty quickly effected by whatever is blowing in the wind. I haven’t lived here long enough to know if I am dying or if it is just an allergy. She keeps me informed that I am not dying and it will all be alright if I can just make it until something isn’t growing in Texas.

She found this tree while attending an event at the convention center so we packed up everything and drove down to downtown for a little while for another experiment. It’s a giant tree with a lot of stuff that looks like tree cancer, but I’m not a tree doctor so my prognosis can not be used against me when the tree decides to sue. We also dropped into a creek bed underneath 6th street to a place that really didn’t smell that good but looked pretty dang cool.

We then went back to the studio and played with coloring the strobes for a while.

Back To Basics: Fifth strobe test with Megan

mistertime — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:06:28 +0000

New lighting techniques have opened my eyes to new possibilities. My artistic knowledge sabbatical continues with todays few tests in the studio. We played with lights in different places and unusual ways of posing. Megan just won’t accept that she is a rock star. I should just be quiet or her head will get to big. She keeps promising it wont, but I just don’t know if she can take my perpetual prattling about how good she is at everything she touches.

Back To Basics: Fourth Strobe Test with Megan!

mistertime — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:12:11 +0000

I spent part of the weekend making myself a beauty dish. Why? Because I wanted to do something with my son and I’ve been meaning to do the beauty dish thing for a while. It caused a lot of smoke in the kitchen, lots of noise and lots of paint fumes to create this dish, but it was well worth it. Today was the first day that we had available to use the new dish so Megan got together with Jo Ella who created a very dramatic look with very wild hair for us to shoot in Taylor today. It was way too cold but Megan is an incredible trooper and never said anything about the cold. Megan is the very best Trusty Sidekick ever! We love photographing downtown Austin, but parking is always such a pain that Taylor works out better when we are looking for that warehouse district look.

The White Room: April 2004

mistertime — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:13:22 +0000

New year. New Logo Old pictures that I found from the past.

Christina in her most daring role to date. This is the master suite in our rental house in 2004. When I’m not taking pictures I can do some amazing things with wood, drywall and paint and then some. Visit my studio some time. I was painting some shelves for my studio in this room while we were remodeling the house and the studio at the same time.

I put plastic sheets up on the wall to protect the walls from the black paint I was spraying with an airless sprayer.

After an hour of spraying the shelves I wasn’t all the way there anymore and started painting words on the walls. Yes, paint fumes tend to fuel the mind in mysterious ways.

Called my wife and said to get on her weird hippie clothes and do herself up because I had an idea. After calling her I spun around and around on the floor to mix the black paint into the crud on the floor and give it some wild circular patterns. Then I walked home in the rain to get the wife. I left foot prints on the street for 1/2 a mile because I had caked so much paint onto them with the spinning.

I used one strobe on the camera bouncing and cranked it up an extra stop to make the room really white.

I haven’t ever used drugs, nor did I start drinking until I was 32, but this is the second time I’ve been high from paint fumes. The first was with my father-in-law. Weird, huh?

Back To Basics: Third Strobe Test with Megan!

mistertime — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:34:08 +0000

Today was day three of our sabbatical with Megan, my trusty sidekick. Today we spent a glorious day outside in what must have been 75 degrees or hotter. We went out to visit the sad little downtown of Taylor, Texas; a lone abandoned wreck, mostly half filled with businesses trying to fight off a a painful end brought on by the city’s Wal-Mart.

But what a place to shoot! No one’s around except the occasional truck filled with onlookers circling the block more than once to gawk at us, mostly Megan. I love Taylor deep down. I just wish it wasn’t so far away. But what fabulous pictures of Megan!