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Jessica Grenier Photography
A Commercial Photographer's Blog

Behind the scenes

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This is a sort of behind the scenes video, taking place on a variety of shoots throughout Denver Colorado, Denmark and Sweden. The photo shoots took place over the past year and were for a few of my different clients. The video was filmed/edited in a way that made sure not to show any confidential information or details about each of my jobs/clients. It’s a fun video directed and edited by Sam Miller of Rehab. Sam did a great job editing, picking the music and getting some really cool, interesting shots. It was fun working with you on these jobs and thanks for using the outtakes for this video Sam.
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Posted by admin on September 22nd, 2011 :: Filed under All
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Vintage Letterpress Printer

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Here is a photo shoot I did for Public, LLC, a Denver letterpress printing and design company. This was a portrait of the owner, Roger Maynor, styled in an old-time printer look. Roger was shaving off his beard from the winter so we took advantage of the long mustache and styled him up. He’s planning on using it for a bit of advertising and a portrait on his website and possibly blog below. Oh and he happens to be my fiance as well… lucky girl!

www.lasersandletterpress.com

Posted by admin on June 19th, 2011 :: Filed under All
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Beauty ad

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Here was a recent beauty advertisement I shot for Glo Professional with Gyro HSR as the art directing agency. We shot a few different women and here are two of the shots that will run in the campaign.

Overall, very fun shoot, wonderful models and great client. Couldn’t ask for more!!!!

Posted by admin on May 15th, 2011 :: Filed under All
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Back-lighting

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Someone asked me the other day the best way to take soft, beautiful photos outdoors in the middle of the day. This is never the best scenario for photographs, as we all know. But not every advertising and editorial photo shoot can be taken at twilight. So, I pulled a few images from recent shoots I’ve done with just that situation.

There are many solutions for this problem, however I chose to showcase one solution in a few different examples. If anyone is interested in knowing other solutions, just let me know and I’ll do another posting.

So, this solution is simple and clean… back-lighting the subject. Sounds easy enough, but there are a few things to keep in mind while doing this. In the middle of the day when the sun is burning down from above, you need to find just the right angle to capture your subject where they are being lit behind by the sun and the sun isn’t rolling over on them too much to cause dramatic, distracting sun spots. This will all depend on the model’s skin tone, body and face shape, clothing and location. Sometimes you can find a tree to help diffuse the sun a bit, but still catch the light coming through without looking splotchy. This one can be tricky, but my suggestion would be to test, test, test. The more you experiment with this type of lighting situation the more you’ll come to recognize in what scenes you need to angle and position what people.

Also, you’ll most likely want some sort of a fill light so the background isn’t so blown out and skin isn’t too dark. You can use strobes or fill cards for this. But remember when using fill cards to have them be as close to the camera angle as possible and to hold them up high. You don’t want to “monster light” your subject from the front and create dark shadows in unnatural places.

Anyway, I hope this helps with the common problem many photographer’s face.


Posted by admin on March 30th, 2011 :: Filed under All
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