Updates

SORRY GUYS i've been so busy and stuff!

Here are some things that have happened while i have been super anti-social on here

-i broke my wacom tablet :( because im a coke addict and by accident it spilled over it : see here what happaned!!!!

So i spent about an hour and a half on the phone with the insurance company, and they didnt even help and said they would call within 10 business days...assholes

I SWEAR people just make shit sooo difficult! they kept transferring me between like 7 people... -.- sooooo annoying!
so now i will be behind on my retouching which sucks -.- but whateverrrrrrrr

GOOD THINGS that happaned!!

I'm shooting Brooke from Wilhelmina tomorrow :D



ANYWAYS thats for now! :D

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Hannah

Things that I have been up too

SOOOO sorry this blog wont be about any tips/advices about photography.
I will write a little about what I have been up to and update you guys on things that will be coming up in a bit. Currently I am re-making my whole website with James Zanoni (whos a motion graphic designer and a friend of mine )

Currently I have been doing a bunch of shoots with agencies as test, but I will release those once my new site is up. I just realized on my flickr that I barely have uploaded any NEW work. But it's okay, i'll be uploading A LOT in a few. This coming week I will have at least 2-3 tests :D So hopefully I'll have more work for my portfolio.

My last shoot I worked with Supreme Model Management :)
AMAZING model , hair, makeup, styling, actually working on the story now. I dont know when I will be able to release it, but hopefully soon :D
This was the model, Sophia :


She was amazing and so was the team, originally we were supposed to shoot in the studio, but it was just way too nice outside!!
Sorry but studio is so boring for me, unless it's beauty work. Also I shot my first guy! So watch out for those images on my site soon.

Random! I found out that two girls in my school are signed with Elite Models :D
I've been speaking to one of them, Umi. She's amazing!!! Really a nice girl, hope to shoot her sometime soon.
This is her :



ANYWAYS!!!!!

Lara and Damon were here to visit! I stayed with them for a few nights and it was awesome! :)
I'll miss them a bunch, but hopefully I will see them very soon! You can go on my flickr to see one of the images I took of Lara here

HMMMMMM what else, that's probably all I have been up too!

I also wasn't supposed to be graduating, but that got resolved yesterday , so now I am :)
It's been one stressful week, and tomorrow I am going over my shoots with Andre. Going to figure out what to post of my site and what not too. Writing my Bio and working on designing the business cards >.<

ANYWAYS! Hopefully I will be able to write soon about some tips and tricks!

Self-Portraits

I started out with self portraits because I never had models. I just wanted to play around with photography and light and poses.
Anyways. This is how i did it, and most of you will be very surprised.

I had the 400D and a remote control for it. The RC-1 which you can buy on amazon for about 15-20$. I would put the camera on self-timer. The remote control would allow me to have the camera focus on my face. Nothing complicated. I'd set my camera on the window sill in my room and i'd sit on the floor playing model. I'd obviously test the light before . I'd put a stuffed animal to where i'd be sitting and see how the light hits and switch my aperture and shutter speed. SOOOO That's about it. If you have a tripod it's probably easier, I still dont have one till today. Now that I have the 5D I haven't had a chance to buy a remote control for it, and I probably wont. Just doing photography now and enjoying it much more.
OHHHH and I would sometimes hold the reflector under to give more light and shine.

The window I used for 95% of my self portraits :


Results :



Ok also the photos where I had the white background, i'd put my camera on my book shelf and pose standing on my bed against the white wall, nothing complicated.

Result :


In some photo's i'd use the 430EX speed light, but I sold that :( soooo maybe like 3-4 f my self-portraits were taken with that.

Hope that helped you guys, if you have anymore questions feel free to ask!

Hannah

camera or lens?

WHATS MORE IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH RAH RAH RAH!
Sorry okay so this is something i get asked ALL THE TIME!
To be honest with you , I think it's some what of an obvious answer. THE LENS :) for sure, if you plan on sticking with the same brand for a while. Invest in lenses more then the body. I made a mistake and bought a new body instead of the 85mm f/1.2 and I want to beat myself up for it. Just please. You can do so much more with different lenses then the body.
I feel like there are way more options with the lens then the body.

What are your inputs on this? Lens or body?

I love shallow DOF so for me, the lower the f-stop the better. And I am obsessed with prime lenses. <3

Camilla Akrans

Shot by Camilla Akrans
She's one of my favorite photographers of all time!

Inspirations

Okay, so when I first started photography. I never really researched photographers or models. I knew probably like .2% about photography. SO recently I've started doing my research and studying history of photo and so on.
For my inspiration. Every-time I come up with idea's for photoshoots i make a folder named something like : Inspiration for W test.
Then every-time i find something super cool that fits that style of a photoshoot i put it in the folder. For makeup, hair, styling, model look, lighting, so on. Sometimes preparing for a photoshoot might take longer then you think, i draw ideas out and vision images in my head i want to create as an end result.

Anyways for the past few months HUGE inspirations have been :
Photographers : Tim Walker
Jamie Nelson
GL-Wood
Andre Scnheinder
Camila Akrans

Paolo Roversi


Musicians :
City and Colour
Regina Spektor
The Knife
Bright Eyes
The Devil Wears Prada

ANYWAYS

If you find something you like...be inspired and just go out there and create!

Leave me a comment and tell me what inspires you!!!

Which camera to start off with..

Okay, this is probably the most annoying question I receive daily. Personally, when I first started off photo. I knew NOTHING about it. I had a power-shot camera (canon sd550). It was probably about 2 years ago was when I first got my DSLR.
I never asked anyone for advice, and most people I knew had a Nikon. I was obsessed and used the Nikon d80 at the beginning. But, when I bought my own camera, somehow , i dont remember how, i ended up buying the XTi. I knew nothing about dslr. I bought a book about it and read, and i only knew about the 50mm f/1.8 because my friend had it on his nikon. Anyways. I got the lens before the body. And it would just sit on my table, collecting dust. I saved up my allowance for a few weeks and had b-day money and bought the xti. Anyways, I hate how so many people worry about the camera more then the talent behind it. To be honest with you, I know many people who started out with not the BEST camera's out there and produced better images then they do with their fancy 30k H3D's.

Okay, look at Juergen Teller . He's shooting Marc Jacobs and ID magazine covers, blah blah...He shoots with a Contax g2 and a flash that comes with it. Enough said.

You dont need a fancy 4k camera when you start. Or even when you are really good. It's really mainly about the talent behind the camera and how you work with your mind and light and models. It's about your vision.

I dont think I have a fancy kit. Right now I own a 50mm f/1.8, 35mm f/2 and a 5D mark 1. NOTHING ELSE, except a reflector and my Elan 7a canon. I barely have any camera equipment. You just have to make the best out of it in my case.

Anyways, those were a few things I needed to lay off my chest.

Me and my little 5D <3