This photo is a bit outdated. Its my boy's 8 month photo. Since then though my little boy has actually turned 9 months, so I will have to update soon with the nine month photo. But anyways, this shoot here is something my wife and I have been doing since he has been born. It portrays his growth every month. We have done the exact same photo with him in his rocking chair and his stuffed animal since he was two months I believe. Once he hits one year, the photos will become every other month or so.
A new model contacted me wanting to do a shoot with me. This was from our studio shoot. A more business look here. I have started a new venture in my photography, which is micro stock. I now contribute to micro stock. If you are unfamiliar with it, its a place where businesses or really anyone can go, and search a photo topic and find thousands of images to download for whatever use, commercial, school, business meetings, advertising.... etc. I have been shooting and uploading since the beginning of this year. And that is what most of my recent work is for. If you are interested in helping me on this venture by any type of modeling, do contact me and we can throw around some ideas!
This was actually a shot I did last year in a shoot I was invited to participate in with a close photographer friend of mine -Erica Newell-. I shot this on a medium format Hasselblad film camera. The reason its part of my portfolio now is, I recently developed it in the darkroom and scanned it into the computer. I really like how this turned out. Film to me is exciting for the fact of the anticipation of what it will look like! And the lighting and mood in this photo turned out fabulous!
This is Elle. I had shot her and a friend last year in a dance photo shoot and wanted to get her in the studio. I have seen these type of portraits around from photography friends, and love the look. So I have started to shoot similar beauty type shots. From this shoot, it turned out very well. I really liked the end result!
This is Elle again. This was fromt he same shoot. I had planned on doing a creative nerd shoot, and that was the initial reason she came to shoot in the studio, but the creative nerd shot I want to do, got pushed aside. But I wanted to edit one from the shoot we had. This turned out very well, and very funny!
This is Camille. Her mother is a photography friend of mine. Camille likes to help out with modeling when she can, and she agreed to help me in my micro stock venture. So for this shoot I had her dress up as a nurse. This shot was one of the favorites from the shoot!
This is Rachel. She is a friend of mine, who so very often likes to step in front of the lense. She usually has brown eyes, but when she showed up to the shoot, she was wearing these blue contacts. Which I new would look really awesome in the shots. This shot was one of the favorites.
These last two images were from last weekends shoot. I have been trying to shoot my friend Zeb again, for a while now. He is a busy man. He works for United Way and does much good for that company here in Utah. We wanted to do a busines type shoot. The top image was a friend of his that came and helped out. The bottom image is my friend Zeb. Tired worn business man with a fan blowing his tie and the papers infront of him. It turned out really nice.
I will be updating more photos hopefully from all these shoots, and of course more photos from the shoots I have coming up. Gotta get into the habit of blogging more! So busy, and so many things to do! Thanks for stopping by. If you would like to step in front of the lens, you can contact me at gmail- chaselesterphotography@gmail.com
