Jeremiah is a member of the Class of 2014 at Sandpoint High School, we met up at his home to take his senior photos and then took four wheelers up to the top of a nearby mountain to cap off the evening.
Clayton is a member of the Class of 2014 at Sandpoint High School, we met up at his home to work on his Senior Photos.
Angelique is a member of the class of 2014 at Lakeland High School, we met up in Post Falls to work together on her Senior Photos.
Unfortunately the field we planned to take soccer photos on was being used, we found a backup location . . . I just wish there would have been a net in the goal!
When you use a wide angle lens, like my Canon 17-40, you have to pay close attention to the distortion that is created when you shoot the lens at the wider settings. The distortion is especially prominent when you shoot with a full frame camera body like the Canon 5D III. It is usually recommended that you try to avoid the distortion, especially when taking portraits but instead I have decided to start embracing it to make some fun, intentionally goofy portraits during my senior photo sessions. I have been calling these portraits my “Bobble Head Portraits”, the reason will be blatantly obvious as you view the photos!
The main goal of my senior sessions is to make sure that my clients look great, an important part of achieving that goal is to make sure that we always have a fun time working together and these Bobble Head Portraits are sure to bring a laugh or two. Here are the Bobble Head Portraits from my June senior photo sessions.
Micah is a senior in the class of 2014 from Sandpoint High School, we worked on his senior portraits at a couple of locations around Sandpoint. Since Micah is a tennis player for Sandpoint we finished up our session at the tennis court where we had perhaps the most amazing sunset I have ever had during a portrait shoot!
Baylee is a senior from Lakeland High School, for Baylee’s senior photos we worked with a few different locations in and around Rathdrum, Idaho. here are a handful of photos from our senior photo shoot as well as a video slideshow with these and many more of the photos set to music.
After the sun got a little lower in the sky we moved to a great field with an old barn, we had great natural light to work with for some environmental portraits.
We concluded our session at the basketball court at sunset.
Check out this video for even more photos from this senior photo session
Breanna is a senior from Sandpoint High School and is one of my senior models for the class of 2014, for her senior photos we worked together at a number of differnet locations around Sandpoint.
Outtakes
Jason Duchow Photography is located in Oldtown, Idaho and does on location portraiture throughout Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington. Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.
This last spring I had a contest offering a free portrait session and digital photo package, Bella won that contest and chose to have senior photos taken. Bella is from Australia and this past year she was a foreign exchange student at Sandpoint High School. There was not a lot of time between her winning the contest and having to depart the states to return home so when her session day turned out to be a rainy one rescheduling was not an option. Instead, I put my Hydrophobia rain gear by Think Tank on the camera and we used some garbage bags to protect the flash and battery pack. Here is a photo of my assistant Pete with our make shift rain gear for the flash.
Our original plan was to take Bella’s photos with some of the buildings, landmarks and locations that are well known in Sandpoint. We were going to start at Scweitzer Mountain Resort, but the clouds were so low that we would have no worthwhile view so instead we just stuck to locations around town. We started out using the Panada Theater as a backdrop, then locations with a view of the Cedar Street Bridge, City Beach Sign, Powerhouse and Long Bridge.
Jason Duchow Photography is located near Sandpoint and Priest River Idaho and serves throughout Idaho and Eastern Washington. Jason specializes in environmental portrait photography often with the use of dramatic lighting techniques and is also known for his freelance sports photography work for www.idahosports.com, The Coeur d’Alene Press, The Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times, Newport Miner, Sandpoint Newsline and a handful of other newspapers and publications.
Daranie is going to be a senior at Priest River High School and is one of my Class of 2014 Senior Models, I had an opening in the schedule so we squeezed in a second session to capture some senior photos! Just as with the first session (view that post here) we had a great June sunset with great clouds to finish up the session. June can be a tricky month for portraits because the weather can be so unpredictable and sometimes it rains the whole month, but it can also be one of the best months for great skies and sunsets!
I put together a slideshow from both of our senior photo session together, you can view it here on this blog post or visit the link to view it on YouTube. Click Here to watch on YouTube.
Bradley is a senior int the Class of 2014 from Bonners Ferry High School, we worked on his senior photos at three different locations around Sandpoint, Idaho. When we talked during our consultation Bradley mentioned that he was a huge comic book fan, especially Batman. I wanted to come up with a location where we could showcase some of his comic book collection where it would not look too out of place so I contacted Angela at Kokanee Coffee in Sandpoint and we were able to set up a time that we could come and set up a few quick shots at the coffee shop. It was a fun shot to set up and I am very thankful to Kokanee Coffee for letting us use their coffee shop!
