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Wedding season is officially upon me, and I am thrilled. This has been the longest off-season ever! Kevin and Miki kicked it off by braving the 12-degree air of downtown Detroit this weekend. You two were totally storm troopers out there. My hands nearly went numb from the cold, but these two really made it look 20 degrees warmer. It was just uber sunny, uber cold and super windy, but like true Michiganders, Kevin and Miki put on a good show like the weather wasn’t even there. Intend on getting a few more from this session up this week, so check back.

will and traci with a logo

Playing with the idea of adding logos to my posts. Probably a best practice, but I’ve never done it before. I suppose that I am too trusting?

my new Black Bird, Fly TLR

So, in an effort to shake things up a bit, I bought a toy. I thought bringing somthing totally low-fi out to some shoots might be an interesting mix up. So, I’ll be using some film over the next few weeks. WHAT! film? Like not digital?

That’s right. Nothing complements a 5D MKII like an all plastic, Japanese TLR camera with a little Lomo 35mm. Suppose we’ll see what this think does soon enough. If it can at least provide some Holga-type fun I’d be happy. If you have an up coming session, don’t worry I am not going take your shoot back to 1977 … well, maybe a few frames or two. [insert Kevin Arnold joke]

I have been working on some custom identity-type photography for my employer, Media Genesis. It is loosely inspired by the work of Dave Hill. We wanted something zany and surreal. I won’t profess to be anywhere near hitting Hill’s marks, but I will say doing this sort of thing correctly is a challenge. Those who think Hill is just using some Lucas Arts plugins are crazy. The key in in the lighting. And for you nerds out there, no high pass filter at all. In fact most are done with no filters in PhotoShop.

Founder and CEO of MediaG, Brad Frederick:

The AV team:

The IT department:

Creative:

Project Managers:

Mostly just shot this as a test. All Han-dheld with the 24L and 85L. This is going to be a lot of fun. Wedding season 09′ look out! (Oh, it is worth watching in HD on Vimeo, as well)

HR_what, originally uploaded by sparkesadam.

A project management training project that I am working on at Media Genesis. This shot is meant to be an HR scenario. It is sort of my poor man’s attempt at a Dave Hill type composite. Shot with the Canon EOS 5D MKII and EF 24 f/1.4 L. Three photos actually required to make the shot “whole”.

Pile On, originally uploaded by sparkesadam.

Too cute.

berner_family1, originally uploaded by sparkesadam.

Here is a more traditional pose. Still hard to believe that we just slide the couch out of the way and did these in front of the TV stand. Two Alien Bees were used to cross-light the scene. One was camera-right and above at half power shot into a reflector and one camera left at about 1/3 power and shot into a shoot-though umbrella. The background and ground are white, seamless paper.

3sAcompany, originally uploaded by sparkesadam.

More leg propping goodness.