Golden hour lighting using gelled strobe



Over the summer I had a chance to do few personal shoots for my portfolio and here is one of them.

I rarely shoot without additional lighting. This time I used strobe with full CTO gel to accentuate the effect of the setting sun. 
The background is panorama of 5 vertical images. Shot on Phase One DF with P30+ back and Schneider 80mm LS lens. 

Cheers,
Sasha.
www.kravetzphotogrpahics.com





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Family Portrait. To do or not to do.




Here is a special group of people to us. I've been photographing Tony and Jennifer's family for few years now: beginning from their wedding in Caracas until their first born son Alex, and finally this portrait with the newborn Elliot. 

 But this post is not about that. Based on my experience, and experience of many of my colleagues, the main reason why parents never do their family pictures is the feeling of fear (mixed with embarrassment) that their kids won't behave properly during shoot. I understand that, I sure do.

All I want to say is that every photo shoot is different because we are all different and shoot dynamics  are different for each single individual. Sometimes we just have to let it go and roll with things as they happen, and the image above illustrates my point better than I can explain it.

Yes, your worst fear may come true during shoot but it can be the best picture you will ever have displayed on your wall.

Cheers,
Sasha.

www.kravetzphotographics.com

Credits:
Set design by Unico Decor Inc / www.unicodecor.com



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Christmas Portraits




After 2 days of painting and putting new trim, I'm finally ready for series of Christmas portraits.  
Guys behind UNICO DECOR INC.  created this set and it looks wonderful.

This set up will be available until Christmas (including Christmas). Great for families or couples heading to a party and who want to do a shoot just before the party. The cost is $150 for about 90 minute session. Variety of wall displays and albums are available on a-la-carte basis. Professional Make-up and Hair Stylist will be available on site at extra charge.
Call, email, message, drop by the studio to look at samples, talk about your shoot and to book!
Regards,
Sasha.


Here's a look behind the scenes:

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Ava. Album Design

My wife Anya was only a couple of days away from the due date, when we photographed newborn girl Ava, which made this session quite special for us. 

For presentation of photographs Ava's parents went with an an 8"x10" 30 pages coffee table book option.  We discussed this during planning stage so I knew in advance that a lot more pictures will be needed in order to fill the album with. Here is the final result.

*I will update this blog post with images of the actual album once it arrives.  


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Maternity Session with Heidi


I heard couple of times people say that my images are only good because I photograph models, and I say it's not true and try to convince them that most of my clients have no modelling or "being in front of the camera" experience what so ever. Well, in this case it is true. Heidi is a wonderful model who I've worked with before and I was really flattered when she asked me to photograph her at this beautiful stage of her life.

Model: Heidi-Lyn Loker
Hair/Make-up: Beau Backstage Make-up

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Before and After the Birth

There was no way I was going to let Annik leave without getting her pictures taken, when she and Jean-Francois came to book a session for their about-to-be-born son.

Annik was smiling, laughing, full of live and energy, and due like next day. When she humbly asked if there was any chance I could take some maternity pictures today, I already knew where and how I'm going to shoot her.  Turned out Annik had ideas of her own as well (like that before/after birth shot). So, Anya and I packed our gear and went to the guys' place to shoot their concept. It was very warm evening, when we were done, so I convinced the guys to continue our shoot outside.

And day or two later, little Andre was born.

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