Monday
08Mar2010

Announcement | Contest! {Class of 2011}

Contest time! This will be the first one in the history of Pitman Photography and I'm very excited to start the 2011 senior portrait season by giving something BIG away. The winner of this contest will receive a free senior portrait session!

{THE CONTEST}

The contest involves creating a SELF-PORTRAIT along with an item, person, or activity that describes YOU.

A panel over here at Pitman Photography will select four images we think are the most creative and those four will then be uploaded to the blog on April 1st. Once uploaded the winner will be decided based on the amount of votes each image receives during a three-day period by our readers. The final winner will be announced on March 4th.

Here's the kicker - these two things must be present in each photo:

{ A self-descriptive item or activity }

{ The color green }

Remember: the winner won't necessarily be judged on technical value, but on concept and creativity. Think outside the box!

{THE WINNER RECEIVES}

A FREE SENIOR PORTRAIT SESSION! Yep - pretty big stuff. You will also receive everything that is included in our 'Basic Package' ($450).

The three runners-up will each recieve $10 itunes giftcards. Not a bad consolation, if I do say so myself. =)

{HOW TO ENTER}

{ Applicants MUST be in the graduating class of 2011 }

{ Please submit photo to: graeme@pitmanphotography.com }

{ Digital, 35mm film, polaroid or even pinhole images are accepted! Just make sure and scan the prints and email them to the address above. }

{ Make sure the images are AT LEAST 800px wide }

{ Photos must be received by March 31st at midnight }

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PLEASE share with your friends by sending them to this link: http://tinyurl.com/ygbx34w

Thank you in advance! You blog-readers (bloggies? bloggettes?) have always shown me such great response when participation is asked for.

- Graeme

Friday
05Mar2010

Claire.

You may recognize Claire from a previous post, when she and her husband (the best man in my wedding) Justin capitalized on our special BW: Promo sessions. Besides being a wonderful friend to my wife and a great neighbor (they live two houses from us), Claire is also an accomplish painter and was wondering if I could take a few photos of her for a self portrait she plans on doing. I've done a handful of self portraits in my medium and I know how hard it can be - I can't imagine how difficult it would be to do one in oil paint. Hope these portraits give you a little bit of a head start Claire!

Also - new logo! If you head back to the main page you'll see that I've rebranded. The fox will stay as the kids site logo, and the green P will now be the primary logo for the company. Senior website will follow the theme of the main page and should be up soon. Yippee!

Tuesday
02Mar2010

Emily.

Although 100% of my seniors have been shot on location either in rural or urban settings, I thought it would be fun to at try starting in the studio for a few minutes and then move on to whichever location was determined. The last two sessions have followed this formula, and I really like the results of mixing in a few 'classic' shots with the environmental portraiture.

Emily's shoot was at a beautiful undisclosed location that she picked - one that I intend to frequent soon and often when I need to get out with a book or a journal. Spring is starting to peek around the corner, and the sun made Nathan and I unexpectedly take off our jackets almost immediately into shooting. Thanks for a great afternoon Emily - hope you enjoy the photos!

Tuesday
23Feb2010

Amanda.

One of my big goals for 2010 is to combine the high drama lighting that I so often use with more subtle available/bounced light. It's certainly a challenge. Amanda's session yesterday was a chance for me to try some new techniques with avaialable light. The snow covered ground bounced beautiful light all over the park we were in, it was hard to take a bad photo! Amanda has a great range of expression - it's broader than I think she even knows. I would love to show you all the photos we took from this session, but the post would be ridiculously long, so I hope this offering of a dozen or so hold you over until next week. I'm going to be posting weekly, and then twice a week again as work picks back up for me this Spring.

 

For good measure we did a few 'lit' shots at the end of the session. I thought this one stood out.

Friday
22Jan2010

A Whole Bunch of Babies!

Happy Friday everyone!

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last several weeks - lots of year end catching-up and some big changes going on behind the scenes. Here are a whole bunch of little munchkins to keep you going for a little while. I wish I could give each one of these their own post (they definitely deserve it), but unfortunately time is not a luxury I have at the moment. Enjoy the cuteness overload!