WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO.
Portland Dance Photography
Making Dance Photos On a Roof In Portland
As a portrait photographer in Portland Oregon, I’ve made images for a lot of people. Kids, families, couples, high school seniors and juniors, and dogs. Recently, one of my favorite types of images to make are creative dance photos. With dance photos, it’s always a collaboration. Since I’m not a dancer I don’t know the techniques that some of these dancers have mastered. They’ve had years of training from studios like Inspire Dance Center and that makes it a great pairing. They have told me that I have great timing, and for them that just means they don’t have to do difficult moves over and over again. That’s great to hear, as I don’t like being a burden.
I was surprised to also hear that dance photography was hard to find in Portland. One of the Dancers I photographer said they tried to Google dance photographers in Portland and not too many if any came up. Just a few in LA. I know there are a lot of photographers in Portland that could do a great job shooting dance images, but if you haven’t done any before, someone looking for dance photographers in Portland won’t find you and will go with someone that has made dance photos before.
Dance can be so dynamic, strong and beautiful all at the same time so finding locations (out of the studio) that work for some shots can be tricky. Luckily I have a few connections in town,
I look forward to working more with these talents over the years and improving my dance photography here in Portland as well.
So this wasn’t all about a dance photoshoot on the roof of a Portland building. I still hope you enjoyed the images and thoughts.
Take care,
Hayes
Analog 02
Working with film over the last 6 months has been an eye opening experiance for how i shoot, and what I want to do more of in my business. My collection has grown and I'm now processing all the film myself. I even do a little darkroom printing for the sepecial BW images that I want to give that extra care. I'm making YouTube videos of my journey with film and documenting how I'm going to be making more of it my business. Here are a handfull of images that I've taken with film. Do you have a passion for film? Would you like to learn how to shoot film and different film cameras? Look for upcoming news and small group workshops I'll be doing this summer. I'm excited about it and would love to help you learn. ;)
Analog 01
My First Medium format go.
So, a little set up for this and future posts on the analog subject. I grew up shooting film on a Canon AE 1 I got from, I don't know where. Anyway, for years I shot on this getting good exposures but that's it. No artistic thought went into any image shooting film. Flash forward to now. I've run this biz for 6 years shooting digital, and now I feel drawn to film again. A new fond interest in shooting medium format, 120 film. December of 2017 I picked up a MamiyaRB67. A beast of a box, with an enjoyable system of working. Take a breath, slow down and enjoy my ride shooting, developing, and eventually printing film. OH YEAH! ;)
I needed to figure out how to get good exposures with the Mamiya since it doesn't have an internal meter. A workaround is to use your DSLR to meter your shot, use an app, or get a handheld meter. I did a little of all of these and for me, a handheld meter with a flash metering option works best. I found an old Minolta spot meter with a flash meter works best for me, perfect!
If you watched the video, you'd know I love using this camera. from the loading of the film, looking through the ground glass, and the satisfying slap of the shutter, it's a great experience.
This will be used alot more this year 2018 and with a Darkroom on the way to being set-up. I look forward to sharing that experiance as well while I make some "classic prints". How do they compare with inkjet prints? So want to know.