Stowell Photography

Meet Kaylee (Senior Pictures) 2010!

Jeremy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:42:36 +0000

I had the opportunity to shoot another senior portrait session in downtown Salt Lake City. What a fun location. We just parked the car and walked around from one location to another. Each location offering something completely different.

Despite having another cold day, Kaylee did an excellent job and it was a fun outing.

I love this first picture, her blond hair against this red/black wall turned out awesome. Having such distinct colors really stood out with Kaylee. This shot was taken near the end of our session, the colors of this wall are very rich, being mostly by my lighting.

The next pose she had in mind from a picture she had seen from a family members senior pictures. I love it. She looks great and the angles really make this shot. Thanks for the pose idea!

This next picture was taken at the same location. I tried doing a cross processing look but only about 40% of the cross process I allowed to show through. This really brings out her eyes. I love the sharpness and blueness to the entire photograph this look gave.

This fun graffiti wall was actually our very first picture. It was not a planned stop, but it was right next to where we found a parking spot for the cars. The majority of the graffiti is behind a locked gate, but this little section was perfect to get some fun graffiti shots.

The next location was a more modern looking structure. It was the first time I have seen this location, but I love the repeating columns that you get.

Now we just turned and walked about 100 yards and we lose the modern look and change back to old busted bricks. Love it!!!

Towards the end of the shoot we found a dark alley with this great door. Just crazy the things you will find. I love her blond hair against these dark colors of this door/wall.

Another red wall!

When we were taking pictures at our first location, we had some guys come out of the building next door and ask us if we wanted to come in and take some pictures inside. They were at the location doing some pluming work, so of course we couldn’t pass up a unique location shoot! It was really dark in the building, so the lighting is fully my strobes.

Another alley towards the end of the shoot, as you can see it is getting darker. I really loved all these shots in the alley. So much fun.

The last shots I am going to show here were taken at the Gallivan center. More modern city type shots.

I really had a fun time shooting this session, I had an extremely hard time picking pictures to show on the blog. If Kaylee has as hard of a time picking out which pictures she wants, then that is a good indication to me that it was a successful photo session.

Enjoy Kaylee.

Leave me a comment on what you thought. You can view the entire album here: http://stowell.smugmug.com/Portraits/Kaylee-Rogers

Sage’s Senior Pictures

Jeremy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:11:04 +0000

My last photo shoot of the year 12/31/09 was Sage’s senior pictures. Sage did a great job posing for these pictures while toughing it out in the freezing temperature. It was a pretty chilly day, plus the alley’s that we shot the pictures in were a little breezy. We went downtown Salt Lake City for these shots. I had a few alley’s picked out ahead of time and we hit 3 of them. The fun part about this location is the different style pictures you can get. One of the locations they change the graffiti often so you never know what you are going to get until you get there.

It is funny to see the faces of the people you bring to some of these locations. They don’t look like anything great, but the pictures usually turn out good. One thing that I have learned about photos is, less is more. Rather than looking for a location that has it all, often it is the location that doesn’t have too many distractions, has cool patterns and older textures. Keeping the images simple and less distracting will often bring the best photos.

This first picture is one of my favorites from the shoot. There actually is a lot that I love, but a few things I like about this one. I like the simple small smile that she is giving. Her legs are positioned which gives her good lines as well as shows off some fun graffiti on the window. I did a little post processing with this image. I added a texture to it, where you can see it showing up in the window and some on the bricks behind Sage.

Here is another picture in the same location. It has a cross processing effect applied to it. I am a fan of this type of look. I like the muted colors and the fashion look.

Next we moved to our second location. This location is an alley with a graffiti wall. This graffiti is what gets changed every so often. It was a fun location, I love how the colors came out in this first photo.

The final location for our shoot was another alley. This time it was a staircase on the back of a building. I love the leading lines that it brings to the pictures.

I hope you enjoyed these images. If you would like to see more from this shoot, they can be found at http://stowell.smugmug.com/Portraits/Sage-Lewis

Halloween

Jeremy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:01:04 +0000

This year for Halloween we decided to dress our kids up in Devil/Angel costumes.

Here are a couple pictures form the shoot.

Halestorm & Lacuna Coil

Jeremy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:48:34 +0000

This past week me, Luke, Lance and Brian went to the Halestorm & Lucuna Coil concert at the Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City. These bands really put on a great performance. It was a free concert put on my 97.5 the blaze. Me and Luke took our cameras and rushed to get a great position on the front row. We got some great shots and had a great time as usual. Check them out.

Also 97.5 posted my pictures on their website in 2 separate galleries, how AWESOME is that!! Check em out, (My albums are Wednesday Rocks: Halestorm –08/12/09 and Wednesday Rocks: Lacuna Coil — 08/12/09) I don’t like how their site formats the pictures that were in portrait orientation, but oh well, I’m just excited that they posted my pictures there.

To see all my pictures in the best quality check them out on Smugmug.

Parker Family

Jeremy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:26:55 +0000

Ok, I am way behind on posting pictures from recent photo shoots. I have had a couple of very busy weeks with pictures, so I am just going to post a few as I get some time.

Here is a couple pictures of the Parker family that I took a few weeks ago. We went to the Flow-serve park in Springville, this location is very good because of all the shade and beautiful landscape that they have.

Check out these first two pictures of their youngest daughter. Isn’t she a cute little girl!

Other pictures include the full family and other brothers and sisters.

DHS – Cheerleader Fire Truck Shoot

Jeremy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:34:48 +0000

My friend has a 1953 GMC firetruck(thanks Casey for letting me know what year). What a great truck to get pictures with. The Delta High School cheerleaders had a photo shoot for the yearly calendar that the school produces.

They were very good sports to drive to Lynndyl and jump on the truck which was hot in some places. They even helped push the truck into the shade when it wouldn’t start to get pictures of the girls on the back.

The DHS cheer page can be view by clicking here. From this page you can go to the gallery to view and purchase prints.

The Twins (ballet photo shoot)

Jeremy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:30:12 +0000

This past week I had the opportunity to take some photos of Jordanne and Justine. They are twins on the University of Utah Ballet team.

We took a few shots in their studio, after which we went to take some pictures in a sky walk, but got kicked out by the security guard. So we went to Memory Grove a little earlier than planned, but it turned out really good. They were really fun to work with and very talented in what they do.

Click here to see the entire photo shoot.

The Salt Flats photo shoot

Jeremy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:31:18 +0000

Last Saturday we went out with a small group of photographers and girls from the University of Utah’s ballet team.

We were really excited to get out to the salt flats, but as fate would have it, there was an accident on the freeway that basically turned I-80 into a parking lot. It took us over 3 hours to go 5 miles, Ahhhh. Well what are we to do while we sit in our car for that long with our cameras burning holes in our back packs….. Yep, that’s right I-80 photo-shoot time. Thanks Joanne and Sarah for jumping out and letting us get our cameras rolling.

After the fun on I-80 we finally made it to the Salt Flats. We made it in time to catch a few min of good sunlight. It would have been a great day to shoot out on the salt flats because of all the rain, there was a quarter of an inch of water which works nicely to give a sweet reflection. Hopefully next time we won’t get stopped on the freeway for so long….

Well Enjoy the pictures.

The full album can be found here.

Cross Processing

Jeremy — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:49:14 +0000

I have been playing around with a couple photos from Derek & Ash’s engagement shoot. I have not had a lot of time to process this entire shoot yet, but here are a couple. The style is a cross processed photo, that would be equivalent to developing the film in the wrong liquids.

These also have an overlay which helps to give it the old look that I was shooting for. Let me know what you think.

Engagements – Derek & Ash

Jeremy — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:36:01 +0000

My brother-in-law and his fiance are getting married in a couple of months and it was time to get their engagement pictures done. I saw this location from another photography friend, and knew at once that it was perfect for Derek and Ash.

We had a lot of fun, we pulled up and there were deer grazing near the orchard, and some even walked through while we were doing our shoot.

I played around with a few pictures in photoshop by adding an overlay and a gradient in a couple of pictures which give it a really unique feel.

Enjoy..