Stowell Photography Blog

My last photo shoot of the year 12/31/09 was Sage’s senior pictures.  Sage did a great job posing for these pictures while toughing  it out in the freezing temperature.  It was a pretty chilly day, plus the alley’s that we shot the pictures in were a little breezy.  We went downtown Salt Lake City for these shots.  I had a few alley’s picked out ahead of time and we hit 3 of them. The fun part about this location is the different style pictures you can get.  One of the locations they change the graffiti often so you never know what you are going to get until you get there.

It is funny to see the faces of the people you bring to some of these locations.  They don’t look like anything great, but the pictures usually turn out good.  One thing that I have learned about photos is, less is more.   Rather than looking for a location that has it all, often it is the location that doesn’t have too many distractions, has cool patterns and older textures.  Keeping the images simple and less distracting will often bring the best photos.

This first picture is one of my favorites from the shoot.  There actually is a lot that I love, but a few things I like about this one.  I like the simple small smile that she is giving.  Her legs are positioned which gives her good lines as well as shows off some fun graffiti on the window.  I did a little post processing with this image.  I added a texture to it, where you can see it showing up in the window and some on the bricks behind Sage.

Here is another picture in the same location.  It has a cross processing effect applied to it.  I am a fan of this type of look.  I like the muted colors and the fashion look.

Next we moved to our second location.  This location is an alley with a  graffiti wall.  This graffiti is what gets changed every so often.  It was a fun location, I love how the colors came out in this first photo.

The final location for our shoot was another alley.  This time it was a staircase on the back of a building.  I love the leading lines that it brings to the pictures.

I hope you enjoyed these images.  If you would like to see more from this shoot, they can be found at http://stowell.smugmug.com/Portraits/Sage-Lewis