It's been a while since I did any outdoor lifestyle portrait session so I decided to do one with a good friend of mine who also lives in Tulsa. The plan was to go out shooting all evening and Seyi was quite convinced that she's not a "picture taking" type of person. I told her not to worry, get dressed and God will help us achieve something...LOL! Maybe not that way but I told her we'd just have fun and be ourselves.
We were out driving through Tulsa downtown Saturday evening and couldn't find any interesting places to shoot so we headed to somewhere else. We found a spot which was not so great looking anyways but I was pretty certain we could use it to the fullest. It was around 7.30pm so the light was quite soft and that made our evening much more interesting.
I'm not that into telling people what to do when shooting, so I told Seyi to be herself and will help her out if it was necessary as far as her body position goes.. One thing I noticed she loved to do is LAUGH! Yes, LAUGH! We started off by talking about how weird the location was and she made friends with 2 bugs I think. But that didn't stop us, so I pretty much cracked her open by making her laugh. The first few frames I took produced the first shot which I showed her. She was going crazy! I was laughing all through and was not surprised because she was very natural in front of the camera so we continued our fun time shooting.
She's such a cool person to be around and she loves to write. Our last location for the evening was her campus (ORU) where I told her to take a seat and do what she does best...WRITE! I thought she was faking it but she was actually writing and couldn't stop because it was her moment to put her thoughts down into writing again. I know she'll be posting that soon. Trust me she's so good with words. Oh by the way, the first time I saw her handwriting, I was in shock. It looked like a computer font....No kidding! She's got the wonderful talent of writing and she's got her own inspirational blog called INSPIRATIONS OF SADE. Trust me you need to read it everyday, it's my new source of inspiration.
5 comments:
Lovely shots, I like the Sepia conversions.
Beautiful and great capture as always.
Thanks Dotun/Tunji.
like i said i'm a big fan
i particularly liked the over-the-top processing of your b&w images in your first wedding covered
my guess was that there was a bit of diffuse glow filter involved...am i right?
also i'm curious as to who the first shooter on that wedding was...cos the couple got such marvelous work from the second shooter.
also any chance you have, or will have a blog on shutterchance? :D
Thank you DrAW. I didn't add any glow filter to any of the images from my first wedding as I use lightroom for all my processing. I try to keep my images as natural as it can be but that is just my personal style. Apart from the b/w conversion and some sharpening, everything else remains as it was. As for the main photog for the wedding, it was J.WIGGINS of concepts productions. He's got his photoblog on shutter chance but I've not seen him post any of his wedding images. It's Jwigg.shutterchance.com.
Thanks again!
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