I know I haven’t been updating as much as I want so I wanted to start a new segment to make me post. Welcome to the first of my Photo of the Week posts. (Hopefully a new post every Sunday). I’ll be posting a before and after of each of the pictures, that is, assuming I don’t take an amazing shoot that just can’t be made better :).
So for the first week, I’ve decided to select a picture that I took of Ryan when the Sam Chen Studios gang went out to explore an abandoned building in the area. It was a great location under[...]
Tags: abandoned building, portrait, PotW, Ryan
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Just came off of doing my first maternity photoshoot with the Mancell family. I’ll be blogging about it later but it was a really good practice in one light portrait photography… Makes me wish I had a black backdrop for more low key stuff.
Tags: Mancell, maternity, one light, portraits
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Hi Everyone,
The Sam Chen Studios team (Me, Ryan, Jonathan, and Danny) decided we’d make a tradition of going out weekly to explore the Orlando area and all that it has to offer (with a camera of course).
Last weekend we made a trip out to the Lake Eola area just in time to catch the end of the Downtown Art & Living Expo.
We took our basic lighting setup and our new toy the Polaroid PoGo[...]
Tags: Animals/Pets, dogs, Lake Eola, outings, sports
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Hey Guys,
I know it’s been a while since we’ve updated the site… I’ve been busily working on getting business cards done as well as touching up some of our old work.
We also went out to Lake Eola yesterday (Sunday) and had a great time going around and snapping pictures (there were lots of dogs). We’ll be writing those up in a post hopefully later today.
But the exciting news for today is that we finally got some business card designs done! Courtesy of my friend, and talented designer, Christina Le.
These[...]
Tags: business cards, Christina
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Major site upgrade… GO!
As you can tell if you’ve hit the site before… we’ve updated to a new theme! We’re running on a modified mistylook theme for Wordpress… I’ll need to update the default image once I find something I think would go well…
The second, and more major update, is the addition of the slickr gallery and lightbox 2 functionality. What did that mumbo-jumbo mean? Hit the break and try clicking that picture of Zombie at the bottom of this post. Notice that the background goes to[...]
Tags: flickr, lightbox, slickr, update, website, Zombie
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Figured I would post a recap when I could… A post with some of the pictures will be coming later.
So the shoot started about 1:00 after it was planned, Andy and Yari were running late but it gave Ryan and I some time to scout out locations around Oasis Cove where they live.
We took about 50/75 pictures inside of the studio on our white muslin backdrop. Some of them turned out pretty well; I’ve noticed I need to work on more of the human element and bringing out more emotion in the pictures. The majority of the pictures were your[...]
Tags: couple, recap, Ryan, strobist
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How cute? Here’s a nice test post for our pictures… Rini’s dog Zombie!
Tags: Animals/Pets, Rini, Zombie
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Well, Hi! :3 I’m Rini, and although I’m not directly part of Sam Chen’s Studios, I am one of their freelance photographers. I’m currently contracted to take a series of senior photos for A Ms. Lara Dollinger, and Since we finally got the foot of snow in Indiana here that she wanted, the next few days we’ll be traveling around town for that.
I’m not as excited as Sam and his studio are…meerely for the fact that I hate snow. The problems it causes! You have to worry about LIGHTING! >:[ It is such a pain![...]
Tags: Rini, Senior Photos, Snow, Upcoming
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Hello everyone! I’m glad we have a working website and I want to thank Andy and Yari for agreeing to come by this weekend. Keep posting and let the pictures continue!
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Looks like the first post of the studio’s wordpress blog will be a photoshoot!
My good friend Ryan, also known as the studio’s Marketing and Sales guy, was nice enough to set up some time with his newlywed brother and sister-in-law.
This will be our first shoot with a couple in the studio. Hopefully I’ll keep to the blogging and post some recap information after the shoot.
Tags: couple, photoshoot, Ryan
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