Photo of Today

Muscle Man!
It's hoping to be the next addition to my istock portfolio.

istock in action!

I'm SO stoked. One of my most downloaded photos on istock has been found! My husband, Mike happened to google the photograph's name: "gym employee" and right away found my photo being used!

http://jobs.lovetoknow.com/Cool_Jobs_that_Pay_Well

Check it out! :D

Fitness Photo Shoot

If anyone is interested, or know someone who is interested:

I am doing a fitness/gym/health/etc. photo shoot this Saturday at Anytime Fitness.
It's for a stock photography company called istockphoto.com
see my current istock photos here.

If you come, you will get to be models and have some fun for a couple hours getting your picture taken!
I will give you any photographs I use for my istock portfolio absolutely free.

Below are a couple examples of some photographs that have been downloaded:

It will be fun, I promise!
Let me know if you would like to come and I will give you more info like the times I will be at the gym photographing, where exactly it is, and some other important information.

Blue and Orange

My brother-in-law Chris racing a four wheeler at the Warner Valley Sand Dunes in Utah.
I am thoroughly liking the contrasted colors of the blue and orange.
This photo is not photo-shopped: I achieved the vibrant blue skies from using a polarizing filter.

One of my favorite things

LightBox Cake

As some of you may know, I am doing some stock photography for istockphoto.com It's been such a great experience so far and I'm learning alot. A couple of months ago, I wanted to properly light my "subjects" and Mike helped me build my own lightbox. Yesterday was my husband's birthday and we bought a cake and I couldn't resist not taking pictures of it. I can try and use them for my istock! So I got my lightbox and took these:

Here is a shot of the setup. My lightbox with a light above and my tripod to help steady my camera (which was being used to take the picture ;)

Joy Ride

Stock Photography

In May, Mike and I had the opportunity to do some modeling for a bunch of photographers that do stock photography for an online stock company called istockphoto.com. I started looking into the website myself and thought, "hey! I can do this. Why not give it a try?" I am learning that stock photography is a lot harder than it looks. istockphoto.com is very picky about quality. Which is good. But it's making me learn and practice my own photography to be even better. I have attached some of the shots we received from our own modeling we did in May. We got to be the "beach" couple out at Sand Hallow Reservoir. It was a really fun and interesting experience. Especially for me, watching and learning from other photographers. My last picture is a photo I took yesterday for my istock profile. It's been really fun to try and figure out what to take pictures of and then how to light/organize/execute that photo. As part of my "photo of the day" series, I will add some of my own stock photography shots.

Didn't mike do such a wonderful thumb modeling? haha.