Photos: [N] Flower Series Extras

Hey,

Just finished editing my shoot from last weekend and I loved the final products.  It was a fun shoot with my makeup artist and the model.  As always and we had a blast.  Got a great flower series photo from it which I will post with the rest when I am done the series (at 6 now).  Also one of the photos was really dark and I edited it a lot more than I usually do just to see how it would look.  I think it turned out well.

Here is one of the extras and you can check my Flickr for the others.  Without further adieu:

Portrait - 105mm VR Macro

Hope you enjoy!

App Review: Photographers Contract Maker

App Review:  Photographers Contract Maker


Description:
This app allows you to write (or use pre-made templates/alter them) contracts or releases for your photography.  It comes with a "Photo Shoot, Model Release, Copyright Release and 2nd Shooter-Work For Hire" contracts.  It allows you to have placeholders where contact information can be inserted into contracts.  This is easily done by the model just filling out a contract sheet and it automatically puts that information into the placeholders in the contract.  The app also allows you to do signatures so there is a signature written on the contract.  It also allows you to have all your information imputed into the app so your information can easily be placed into contracts each time.  The signed contracts also save on your iPad and can easily be e-mailed from your iPad to the client(s) (and yourself).  As well, if you work repeatedly with models, it saves the contact information in the app so the model only has to input their information once.  It had more features to make the app easy to use but those are the main ones in my opinion.


Thoughts and Opinions:
This is a very helpful app to a photographer.  It is so much easier to do releases on my iPad since I don't have to print out releases ahead of time and always have them and a pen with me.  The ability to make your own contracts is a huge plus as well as signing them electronically.  E-mailing the contracts also is a huge plus for me since it again saves paper.  Very impressed with this app.  The placeholders is also a good idea which makes the contracts easy to do.  Overall the app is well thought out and easy to use.


I did a shoot with a model who needed a parent/guardian signature however there was no placeholder for that sadly.  So I just made it as "a witness" however I made sure the wording of the contract made it clear it was the parent/guardian signing.  It did not matter since the placeholder naming doesn't stay in the contract but always good to be clear with clients when signing legal contracts.


Also on a small tangent it is kind of cool for people to use the iPad and such for the contract.  It adds a small cool/fun factor into signing releases since paper work (especially legal papers) isn't fun for a lot of people.


Pros:
- Ease of Use
- Simple
- Usefulness
- Ability to Sign Contract on iPad
- Placeholders
- Ability to E-mail the Contract
- Cost (2.99 CAN)
- (as a side note) also works on my phone! (iPhone)


Cons:
- Pre-made (which is good) placeholders however not customizable (not good)


Conclusions:
Overall a very useful app that is very easy to use.  I know it is a new technology and such but it is hard to describe this since I would say it is a tool for photography.  What I mean is, it is like describing how useful a hammer or drill is to someone in construction.  You should/need to have signed release when working with models and this makes that very ease so I would almost call this a tool rather than some fancy extra app.  So 10/10 on usefulness and it is a great app as well as it is very easy to use.


I highly recommend this app for any photographer who works with models or signs contracts with clients a lot.  All you need is an iPad (or iPhone).

Update & Photos: Beauty Dish

Hey,

So I got a chance to use the beauty dish twice now and I love it.  Still getting the hang of it but luckily for me, a friend came over to help me practice using it.  I was practicing lighting on myself, however that is never as good as having someone else being the model.

Here are some of the shots from practicing with the beauty dish:

Portrait - Beauty Dish - 50mm f/1.4D

Portrait - Beauty Dish - 50mm f/1.4D

Hope you enjoy them and stay posted for more photos and my initial review of the beauty dish now that I have gotten to use it a bit.

Update: Photos and Beauty Dish!

Hey,

So I have now posted all the photos from the dance shoot up.  You can find the others on my Flickr but here is one of my favourites:

Jump - Portrait - 17-55mm f/2.8

Also I just got the beauty dish I ordered and it arrived last night!  So I was testing it out last night and thankfully a friend of mine came to help me test it out.  This was great since I can only do so much testing it on myself and the lighting that may work for me might not work for the almost 100% models I shoot since they are, more often than not, females.  So I will be editing those beauty dish shots tonight so they might be up later tonight, if not some time soon.

Hope you enjoy!

Photos: Sneak Peek

Hey,

Here is a sneak peek of the photos I took earlier this week in my studio with a ballet dancer.  Hope you enjoy!

Portrait - 35mm f/1.8G

Portrait - 17-55mm f/2.8

Stay posted for the rest!

Photos: [E] in Studio

Hey,

Thought I would take a quick break from app reviews and post some of the photos form my shoot I did over the holidays with a very lovely model.

We made a made dash to my studio and I am glad we did because we got some amazing shots as well as another Flower Series (FS) shot.  A very fun day and we got some very good images I thought.

Portrait - 50mm f/1.4 D

Portrait - 50mm f/1.4 D

There are more (different) on Flickr in the set with this model's other photos from the last shoot we did.  The sharpness of the 50mm f/1.4 D never ceases to amaze me.  

Hope you enjoy the images!

App Review: Photo Carousel

Description:
This app is an app that is used to access your Flickr account.  It also allows you to do slideshows of the account as well as the ability to open multiple Flickr accounts.

Thoughts and Opinions:
I had a Flickr app for my iPhone however when I went to open it on my iPad it was only the iPhone size. I scrolled through Flickr apps and this one was free and seemed very straight forward.  I was not looking for a lot of crazy features, I just wanted to see my photos if I needed to show my Flickr photos.  I really like how simple the display is.  There are no distractions, just the photos.  You can then open the photo in full screen by tapping on the photo.  You can then open that photo in the normal Flickr window to view it's comments and views and such.  I really like this app because you go from a non-distracting view of all your photos, to full screen and then to Flickr's usual setup.  This way, it is easier to show photos than it usually is just using Flickr.

Pros:
- Easy to Use
- Simple Design
- No Distractions
- Good Features

Cons:
- None

Conclusions:
So all and all a great app for showcasing your Flickr.  You can still manage and view your Flickr however it was more designed to showcase your photos which I thought was a great idea.  So for anyone who uses Flickr for their portfolio this would be a great app.  I have no complaints with this app.

And just as a side note, this is my 100th post!  That was definitely a lot more than it feels like.  Hope everyone has enjoyed them thus far.