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Brian and I photographed Daniel and Betty’s wedding today. The ceremony and the reception was held at St. Joseph Catholic Church, here in Wichita, KS. Beautiful overcast day allowed for some fun pictures of the couple both inside and outside. Here are some of my faves from Daniel and Betty’s wedding…
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Donny O from Margaritas Cantina has a very cool Hot Rod that he wanted to enter in a Hot Rodding magazine contest. I was up for the challenge but needed a place to shoot it. After a couple of location ideas, we settled on the area next to Exploration Places Putt Putt Golf course. With permission, we rolled the car up and positioned it to where I could see the Keeper of the Plains statue in the background. For fill I used an AB800 fitted with a beauty dish and a Vagabond battery pack.
This isn’t what was submitted for the contest but a ramped up version of it to give it a little more of an HDR look.
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Ken and I set up an impromptu photowalk this morning for around the 21st Street and Broadway area. About 20 photogs showed up for the 2 hour walk. Most of the people found out about our walk by being a member of our Facebook Group ICT Photowalks, Wichita Photographers page on Flickr or just good old fashion Twitter. Being a member is free, all you have to do is like shooting with your camera.
Thank you to those who went out this morning on short notice and here’s a handful of my images from the walk…
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Photographing Kelsey was so much fun, she has such a huge range of expressions and just loves to laugh! She was in town visiting family and her mother thought it would be fun to have her pics taken in Wichita since they used to live here. We met up in Old Town and shot in various areas, trying not to get run over as the streets seemed extra busy that night. My favorite image that I think captures the fun in Kelsey is the last one posted here. Here are a handful of images from the shoot…
After talking with a couple of local photographers at lunch the other day I thought it would be fun to try out an idea we were talking about: what would happen if we tied disposable cameras to park benches in Old Town? I wonder what kind of pictures we would get? So with the help of my friend Ken, we set out 4 disposable cameras, tied to benches in different parts of Old Town. Ken shot these of me setting up:
I put the cameras out at 7pm and returned at 3am to pick them up. Only 1 camera was found as the rest had been taken. Keep in mind that I used Walgreen cheapies and one Poloroid for this project so it’s not like they were very valuable. I was pretty bummed but I did notice that there had been a a couple of shots taken with the surviving camera. So not to let any film go to waste I went on a photowalk of downtown with the remaining disposable camera to see what kind of shots I would get. A couple of things I discovered… 1) the last two images didn’t turn out. Not sure if that’s a nature of the beast for a disposable camera. 2) Lining up a shot thru the eye piece for proper composition does not translate well thru to the lens. You can definitely see that in the shot I took on the walking bridge over Kellogg. All in all it was fun and I’ll try to do it again.
Mystery couple #1 from the project
Mystery couple #2 from the project
The rest are from my photowalk of downtown
Film starting to turn weird
straight out of camera
Went to Riverfest tonight to photograph the fireworks show and see what I could come up with this year. I tried a new technique and that was using the bulb feature on my Canon 5D. I think it worked out well as I’m pretty happy with my results. Here are my fav’s…
The calm before the storm
These looked like spiders
I checked out the dodgeball tournament this morning in front of the Library. Lots of really competitive players so I think I came up with some fun shots. Since I’m not putting any of these images in the Riverfest photo competition I can post these on my blog…
This one cracks me up! It’s Mr. Dodge ball head
Nothing wrong with throwing a little flair into your dodge ball moves…
I wanted shots of the ball coming at me… These came pretty close!
I went downtown tonight to photograph parts of the Riverfest Block Party. Bad weather showed up and the party moved inside Century II. So, due to the rain, I decided to challenge myself to see where I could shoot from without getting my camera wet.
This was shot from inside a trailer doorway that was being taken down due to the rain.
I wanted an umbrella shot… so here it is
Decided to walk around and I really liked this dudes chair holders. Very patriotic!
There was something about the sniper hotel that made me want to photograph it. Then I discovered the eerie man on the 8th floor that seemed to be staring at me.
A closer look
Today I met up with Josh, Jeremiah, Aaron and Andrea over by the Spaghetti Warehouse building for a downtown photowalk. We walked around the the warehouses and the area around the new arena and I think we captured some really fun stuff. Here are a handful of images from my shoot and you can find the rest on my Flickr page…
Group Photo
Me, Aaron, Andrea, Jeremiah and Josh
I decided to take advantage of the snow that had fallen from yesterdays snowstorm and see what kind of winter pics I could come up with on another one of my photowalks.
