Photography
Thanksgiving at the Salvation Army
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you’re enjoying your time with friends and family. We’re with our respective families as well. Matt is in Dallas and Ally and John are in Chicago. There’s a lot we’re thankful for this year but it seems appropriate to mention here that we’re thankful for you. :) Thank you for stopping by.
This isn’t a typical blog post for us, but here are some shots from a Thanksgiving celebration at a Salvation Army in the small town of Greenville, TX:
Awesomely enough, if you are ever in the area and want to help these guys out, you can contact them on their facebook page.
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Janette Marin
Our good friends at Hallow Tree Studios connected us with singer/songwriter Janette Marin for some photos. Her MySpace page is in the works, which we may or may not have something to do with, so we’ll link her website in the future once it’s up. Enjoy!
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Kawczak Wedding – Part 2
You can view part 1 of the Kawzcak wedding here: http://duckduckcollective.com/blog/kwczak-wedding-part-1/
Schaaf Wedding – Part 1
Here’s some speed edits from our friends’ John And Laura Schaaf’s wedding, which is still going full swing. We don’t normally post during the wedding but this place actually has Wi-Fi so we’re throwing caution to the wind…
Laura actually turned invisible and was kind enough to pose for us in the following photos:
Hope you enjoyed the quick peek. The dance floor is beckoning. :) None other than THE Jeff Pamer is DJ-ing. Win! Can you spot the Pamer brothers in this post?
Also, special thanks to the wedding planner, Crystal Whitaker. This wedding was stress-free and went without a hitch thanks to her personality and planning. We recommend her strongly to anyone getting married in or around Charlottesville, VA. For that matter, we also recommend the Clifton Inn. Partially because they have an unbelievably beautiful facility and professional staff — blah, blah, blah — but mostly because they have FREE WI-FI. We believe strongly this is the very best kind of Wi-Fi and that it should be everywhere in the universe, especially where we’re shooting a wedding.
Anyway. We post every day. In the future there will be more photos from this wedding and also a video. Stop back tomorrow. :)
Kawczak Wedding – Part 1
You can view part 2 of the Kawczak wedding here: http://duckduckcollective.com/blog/kwczak-wedding-part-2/
Ufema Wedding
Our very good friends Aaron and Bethany asked us to shoot their wedding and we enthusiastically agreed. We greatly enjoy working weddings, but we especially enjoy photographing our friends’ weddings.
At weddings we sometimes set-up a “crazy booth” (or as Matt likes to call it a “Shenanigans Station”) and at this wedding they took it to heart. :)
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Lifestyle Photography for Uncover the Color
This past weekend our friends Cole NeSmith and Shawn Romano invited us to Orlando to take some lifestyle photos for a stock photography website they’re launching soon called Uncover The Color. We wound up shooting over 3,000 photos. Here’s a preview…
Thoughts from this shoot:
- Shooting specifically for “stock photography” is freeing since just about any concept goes: happy, sad, contemplative, surprised, pensive, etc.
- Setting up cameras and lights is easy but directing/posing the models is really the variable that we’re finding most affects how happy we are with the final shot.
- Orlando is awesome. Up there with Brooklyn and Nashville.
- Seasons 1 and 2 of Battlestar Galactica made the 10 hour drives fly by. So good!
Special thanks to Jon Paul Douglass for assisting us with his lights, lenses, loft and muscles. Also, a warm thanks to Kate King, Tom Gustafson and Lori Gustafson for their hospitality. It was a pleasure.
Sundry iPhone photos from the weekend:
By the way, this blog will be updated daily now that our big video projects are finally done.
Vita Fashion Show: Fall 2009
A few months ago, we at DuckDuck cut our teeth as a collective by photographing the Spring 2009 Vita Fashion show in Lynchburg, VA. Vita, which is the brainchild of Sarah Simmons and Becca McCharen, began last year as an effort to not only display the ridiculous talents of local designers and stylists, but to contribute to and help grow the up and coming artistic community of downtown Lynchburg. Being a part of such an evening of style and art really excited us at DuckDuck about the potential Vita possessed as an artistic and communal catalyst for our city.
Last night, along with designers Becca Mccharen, Deidre Stone, Ashley-Elaine Hudson, stylist Sam Gravitt of Fusion Salon, and fabulous model choreographer Sarah Simmons, the DuckDuck Collective worked to create a night of chic style held in the Glass House in downtown Lynchburg by presenting the Fall 2009 Vita Fashion Show. Huge thanks as well to John Wyche and James Walz from Hallow Tree Studios for taking care of the sound and lighting. Pictures from the evening will be posted very soon.
We also wanted to enhance the aesthetics of this Fall’s Vita show and further highlight the talents of Sarah, Becca, Sam and Deidre. So we conducted a photo shoot with each artist to create some conceptual art pieces that conveyed each individual’s personality. After a week of editing, printing and mounting the images, we were incredibly excited to display the fruits of our labor to over 400 people.
Portraits from the East Coast
The last 30 days or so have been incredible. We’ve been everywhere from Tuscaloosa, AL to Brooklyn, NY searching for interesting people with stories to share for the Levi’s “Go Forth” ad campaign. It’s been quite the adventure. 10,000 miles later, here are some portraits of the people that have made our last few weeks so memorable.
Madi Diaz and Band
Spent the morning shooting Madi Diaz and her band. Check out her phenomenal music at madidiaz.com.
Working with Textures
DuckDuck avidly pursues a spirit of creativity and innovation by constantly challenging ourselves with new styles and techniques. Today, we see photography being inundated with trite attempts at properly executing the usage of textures on pictures. It seems the market is over-saturated by generic “store-bought” textures.
Because of our desire to create unique imagery, Ally has been tirelessly working at collecting and implementing DuckDuck Custom Textures (which will be available for purchase soon!) into some of our more conceptual work. Below are some of the fruits of her labor.
Vita Fashion Show
Back in the day, my friend Anna and I started a graphic design collective together called DuckDuck and released a few projects together. It was super fun but, sadly, she eventually moved to Orlando and that, as they say, was that.
However, I’m stoked to share that Matt, Ally & I have revived DuckDuck, except instead of design we’ll be working with photography and videography.
Band: Someone Just Like You
The band Someone Just Like You approached us recently about some photos. After some reflection (puns!), we decided to use a mirror to incorporate the concept behind the band’s name “Someone Just Like You”. What followed was a fun collaboration. It was one of the most technically difficult shoots we have attempted yet but also one of the most rewarding.
