Yes, I still do portraits!

Even though it is crazy as ever in the middle of football and track season, I have been as busy as ever with portraits....I just haven't been posting any. I am starting with a few things I did last month at a photography meet-up that Mike and I were honored to be part of. Jennifer Schreck and I presented a class on the basics of photography and it was called "What the F is an F-stop?" We had a great time teaching and got to meet up with wonderful friends that we have known for years and were able to meet many new friends. There ended up being almost 100 photographers in one beautiful house with about 8 inches of snow falling outside. We had such a wonderful time in the beautiful little town of Skiatook, OK snow and all.

When we weren't teaching, we too were able to take classes and we had some incredible instructors as well as stunning models to work with. I am going to be posting some of the shots from some of the classes and also giving you links to those instructors websites so you are able to go check them out and see some awesome images from these artists.

This first series is from one of two classes that I took from a master lighter, Lowry Wilson of Old South Images in New Albany, Mississippi. http://www.oldsouthimages.com is the link to Lowry's website. Lowry spent many years in the studio setting and still rocks the house with lighting! Now days, you seem to find Lowry out shooting landscapes where he continues to rock the house! Beautiful, beautiful images that anyone would treasure hanging in your home and they are true works of art. A very special thank you to Lowry for taking the time to show different styles and techniques of lighting to us.

Just a shout-out to the maker of the backdrop used in these images. Silverlake Photo @http://silverlakephoto.com is really top of the line when it comes to backdrops. I personally own several of theirs and they were generous enough to be a major sponsor of the meet-up supplying us with 4 backdrops to use and then to give away as a doorprize. This drop is the Asylum and I wished I would have been the winner of this one......it is an awesome drop. Modeling for us this day were two very lovely ladies, Lisa and Laura.