Finding Love. Giving Life.

A mini Documentary

Family Dogs New Life Shelter celebrates 10 years of finding dogs their forever homes. This is a short documentary taking you into the shelter. A little behind the scenes and history, as well as what they hope for the future. They are in many cases dogs final hope to find a loving family. To help this shelter for the next 10 years go to http://www.familydogsnewlife.org/donating-to-family-dogs/

This was my first attempt at a documentary and I know technically  there are many mistakes, but it was a great experience and I learned a lot for the next one.  Enjoy!!

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Artist Rochelle Muzquiz

Studio Shoot

Occasionally I offer some sort of free shoot to practice a technique, lighting, editing, or just because I haven't shot in a while. This was a first meet up with local Artist Rochelle Muzquiz for a relaxed, fun photo shoot in my home studio. Makeup artist Ashley Dow was kind enough to come over to help out on this one. The shoot was nothing crazy. Plain background, 1 sometimes 2 lights, and a short venture outside. The main learning experience for me on this was primarily in the post work. Playing with tone, textures, and frequency separation (new one for me).

Rochelle's web - http://rochellemuzquiz.com

Ashley Dow - www.facebook.com/ashley.dow.10

Film making class

Making videos for dog shelters class

Was a hit! Danica, Josh and Caitlin (volunteers of Brightside Animal Center) Contacted me for my knowledge of making "Piteos" for Family Dogs New Life Shelter. So I set up a two day course of gear, planning concepts, shooting, Importing, editing and exporting to web.

There was a lot of info to take in and a lot of practice to still to be had with their own equipment when they get home. To me, all went well and was a lot of fun. Below is the final video the class put together. Big thanks to Aaron Lee Photography for the use of his studio and to Danica, Josh and Caitlin for wanting to better their skills to benefit the shelter and dogs.

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