Weekly Photo Challenge: Photo Store

This photo was not too much of a challenge for me. I took a self portrait in the local well known photography stores in town, Casey’s Camera. In order to accomplish this I called ahead of time to speak with the manager of the location to get permission to come into their store and set up my camera on top of my tripod and take a picture. I offered the manager to join me in the photo if he pleased, and I also informed him that I would be putting the photo on my blog and would make a tweet about the store to try and give them some more recognition. The next day I arrived at the store and asked for the manager that I had previously spoken to letting him know who I was and then asked him where it was ok for me to set up at? He allowed me to set up anywhere I chose to so I decided to place myself in the frame with the selection of cameras and lenses behind me. I like the fact that in the background of this photo on the very top of the shelves you can see a selection of old fashion film cameras. In this photo I didn’t use any kind of flash I just used the ambient light that was available in the store and the natural light that was coming in from the windows. I changed my white balance to match up with the light from the store so I changed it to florescent. I had my shutter speed set at 1/40 of a second and I had my f/stop at f/4. I was using my 28-105mm lens so I wouldn’t have too much depth in the background so everything behind me from the store could be seen. I also had my iso set at 100. During editing I decided to add the text up to the top right hand corner, the name of the store to help with the recognition for them.

Week 4 EOC: Plans for visiting a Photo Shop

For this weeks photo challenge I plan to go to the photo supply store that is here in town called Casey’s Camera. I will be contacting the store to speak to the manager about coming to set up and take a self-portrait in the store. I may even ask the manager if they would like to be in the photo with me to help promote the store, by telling them I will be tweeting about them on my twitter and give them recognition on my blog as well. This particular location is located at 1550 E Tropicana Ave in Las Vegas, NV 89119 702.736.0890 and are open daily from M-F 9-6 & Sat 9-5 also Sun 10-5.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Incredible Photo

With the very challenging photo challenge that I had to do this week, I decided to go to a place that I haven’t been to in about 15 years. I had actually forgotten just how beautiful this place actually was. In some ways this was surprisingly kind of a fun challenge but a little more difficult at the same time because of the destination that I chose and trying to get up to where I finally captured my photo. The place where I went to is the beautiful Valley of Fire. I climbed up on a boulder cliff rock that was called “the Beehives”. Getting up on top of this one was definitely a little scary but fun at the same time. In order to capture this image I arrived out there a little late in the afternoon, so I could get some amazing shots of the rocks as the sun was beginning to set then the orange on the rocks was so gorgeous. In the image that I found worthy of using, I’m sitting atop the boulder while my camera is set up on my tripod at the other end of the boulder. I used my Canon Rebel T1i and had my 28-105mm f/4-5.6 lens on there. I had the ISO set at 100. I had the f/stop set at an f/5.6 and the shutter speed was set at 1/60 of a second. I used all natural lighting for this image. The shot was captured at 5:30pm when the sun was starting to go down. I finally placed the image into photo shop to do a little bit of touching up before the image was final as you can see before you.  

Week 3 EOC: My Commitment

My commitment that I have chosen for my business in the photography field is a sports photographer. I plan on having my business located in the beautiful city of San Francisco, CA. I am going to be available to my clients to market their needs when it comes to making the best sports photos possible at every different event possible. I will be marketing myself to specialize in events such as high school football and baseball games throughout the area. I also plan on working with the local teams that put on charity sporting events. With that being said I also plan to work my way up to meeting and making those important contacts that will allow me to gain full and complete access into the NFL as well as the MLB. With every given opportunity I plan to market myself and become worldwide known. After that has been accomplished I plan to be able to work with other areas of sporting events in the NBA and NHL, to even Motor Cross events and so forth. When I’m not working on any kind of sporting event I plan to also to be available to every customer in other fields of photography as well. I want to be able to meet every need of each of my customers as possible. I also believe in building and maintaining a strong interpersonal relationship with all my clients and the important people whom I have made contact with in order to get Brandi Kimmett Photography off the ground. I will always be as dependable and reliable to all clients and customers, and while making sure that I am responsible and fulfilling all the obligations that I have to every person that decides to hire me for their events.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Paparazzi

The photo I shot is an image of me posing as paparazzi, I am wearing my press pass in the image that allows me to have access to any sporting event, special event, or any kind of event that will need paparazzi or photographers at to capture every moment of the event. I didn’t choose any kind of special location to take this photograph at. It may have made the background a little more appealing if I would have but the main focus is on me not necessarily on the background. For this photo I set my camera up on a tripod and used my 50mm f/1.8 lens to capture the image. I used my Canon Rebel T1i and had the focus set on manual. I used my wireless remote to capture the image at the right second. I had the f/stop set at f/3.5 and I had the shutter speed set at 1/125 of a second. I used an iso of 100. I didn’t use any kind of flash when I fired this shot I used all natural ambient light. I shot the image at 5:28pm so I only had a little bit of natural light to actually work with. I also took multiple images to finally capture the correct exposure and get the perfect image. I then followed up with the image into photo shop just to make sure that I had all the exposures correct and do just a little bit of skin retouching before I could allow the image to be finalized.

Week 2 EOC: La Dolce Vita

After only watching the little bits and pieces of the film La Dolce Vita, I completely understand where the idea of the paparazzi comes into play. To actually be back in that time frame as a paparazzi photographer then would have definitely been a major challenge. The great lengths that they went to just trying to get the perfect kind of photo and having to fight the crowd of all the other photographers trying to do the exact same thing. I think that now a day we take our camera equipment for granted compared to what they had to deal with then of having much more to work with. They would have to change out their flash bulbs after every picture taken, compared to now that we have much better options available to us in that sense. With that being said not much else has changed very much when it comes to the paparazzi between then and now. They still have to fight around each other as well as they also are still just as vicious as ever to do what ever it may take to provoke who they are trying to photograph.  This movie did seem very interesting to watch and actually see how life was lived in that era and that part of the world. According to Dear Cinema film and films festivals says this about the film "No serious film connoisseur can resist the seduction of La Dolce Vita (meaning, the sweet life). A scandalous box office hit in Italy and internationally as well as a huge critical success, La Dolce Vita remains one of the most influential films of all time, since its release in 1960. The film gave birth to the word paparazzi. Genius filmmaker (and my personal film god) Federico Fellini’s masterpiece is a caustic critique of modern Rome, but is pertinent to all modern society as to all modern society as well.” They also rate the film 5 stars.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Self Portrait

The photo I chose to do for the weekly photo challenge is Ansel Adams “Waterfall” that was taken in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This photo came out of his collection called Wilderness.  Ansel Adams worked mostly in black and white photography but in his later years he also specialized in some color photography as well. The photo that I chose is one of his most beautiful color photos that he ever made. I looked online to find one of Ansel Adams beautiful landscape shots that I could use as my background. That is when I came across this gorgeous image. I took a self portrait of myself using my canon rebel t1i camera and used my 28-105mm lens. I placed my camera atop of my tripod and shot the image outdoors to try and match the coloration of me to the image done by Ansel Adams. I had my aperture set at 1/125 of a sec and I had my f/stop set at 4.0 with my iso at 100. I also used the setting on the camera that I could use my wireless remote to help capture the image perfectly. After I got the image that I wanted to use for this assignment I took the photo of myself and the one I got from Ansel Adams gallery I put them both into photo shop and used a couple of layers and placed the image of myself into the image created by Ansel Adams and made it look like I was originally in the photograph when he actually captured that moment in time.

Week 1 EOC: About Me

I am an aspiring Sports Photographer who holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Digital Photography. Every single day I have an opportunity to grasp that split second of every moment that cannot be duplicated. Since I was a little kid I have been a sports enthusiast. I have always wanted to do something that would give me the chance to be as close to as possible to any kind of professional sports figure. I have many different experiences of shooting all kinds of different photography from portraiture, to landscape, to still life and many others. I love to do any kind of photography, but no matter what my heart will always fall back to and lie with sports photography.

           I always do my best to perform and make sure that my photographs will always meet the expectations of the viewing eyes that look at them. I enjoy the satisfaction that I get from the observing all the expressions on the viewers face after they have seen my photographs. I have always been a huge fan of photography and it was a great feeling for me when I had graduated with my degree and was able to get out into the real world and put it to use and get to the level of accomplishments that I’m at now.  

Week 1 EOC: Stallions not Unicorns

The business that I have started resides in the beautiful city of San Francisco, CA. I decided to move to this town in particularly because of the beauty that resides all around it. I have opened my own Free Lance Sports Photography business, called Brandi Kimmett Photography. There already are a few very well known sports photographers located in the bay area, but to have one more in that area is not a bad idea. The majority of them are all men, so it is a change of pace to actually have a beautiful and talented woman sports photographer in the business. I specialize in sports photography, but I also bring other photography options to the table as well. I love to meet the needs of all the wonderful people in and around the bay area and surrounding areas. I plan to make my business as a sports photographer grow with the needs of all the different sporting events in and around the circulating areas. I will do everything necessary to make sure that my business will succeed so that the word will travel and I will become the next greatest sports photographer in the world. My goal in my business is to become greater and more worldwide known then any of the current sports photographers in San Francisco. I plan to be as accessible to all the everyday needs of all my customers whether it is for a sporting event in town, around the world somewhere, or even if it just happens to be a couple that decided to announce that they are getting married. No matter what the job is that the customer is asking of Brandi Kimmett Photography, there is no job or photography request too big or too small for my company to accomplish and provide the best results for the customer.