Shoot with Mer and Parker Fitzgerald :)

So two days ago, the most random set of occurrences happened due to the lovely Nishat, and Parker Fitzgerald (who I had totally forgotten lives in Portland!) and I planned a shoot for the next day (yesterday now) with Meredith.

We met up at a coffee shop where Parker told us about his collection of cacti amongst other things, and we decided on going to the Gorge. We drove Parker's truck there (Mer squished in the sideways back seat, hehe), played Josh&Mer's CD on the way, and generally had a dandy time chatting. The whole time I was completely in awe of HOW BEAUTIFUL it is there!!! I still can't get over it, and I have barely even seen anything!

We started shooting and it was so much fun seeing how Parker worked, and especially watching the Polaroids develop! At first I was doing a good amount of shooting, but after awhile I mostly just enjoyed the scenery/watching Parker and Mer shoot, and jumped in occasionally for a few shots :) I can tell you that Parker's polaroids were freaking fantastic... I can't wait for you all to see them! It was a relaxing, fun, full day. I took a lot of photos of the scenery, but I'm going to save those for a different post at the end of the week here.

First I'll post my photos, then some fun behind the scenes :)


































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Behind the scenes:

soooo there was this photo I wanted but it was like impossible for Mer (or anyone) to hold the "sitting on air" position it required, so Parker acted as a chair haha :) Unfortunately, the photo didn't end up getting used... sorry Parker :(


and the rest!


:)

News + the day of the fly invasion (beach and lake)

yesterday I went to Anna's, and we went to a beautiful beach where we stood in the ocean and laid out and chatted for awhile. It was wonderful (though extremely hot and humid and we were sweatbombs) at first, but then.... the flies started to attack :(

So we headed to the boardwalk and walked up and down it and got some ice cream and chatted some more until the sun was low enough to take pictures. We headed back to the beach, hoping the flies had calmed down, and started taking pictures, but the flies immediately attacked and it had only gotten worse. I could barely concentrate cause I was constantly moving my legs and slapping at them, trying to keep the swarm of flies away, and Anna (who was modeling) was being swarmed as well. We had to keep going into the water for relief :P

It was fun anyway, but we decided for comfort and pictures' sake, we should probably go to the lake instead. Unfortunately the drive there from where we were was fairly far, so we didn't get too much light once we got there, but it was a beautifullll sunset and there were some pics that I loved! Mostly we had a good time talking and such.

ALSO, I know a lot of you who read this follow me other places so you probably already know this, but I VERY spontaneously (as in Monday) booked a flight to Portland, Oregon to stay with my friend Meredith (she's modeled for me twice when visiting Boston, you guys will recognize her, she's fantastic!) for a week! I'm in the airport right now :) I've never been out west and I can't wait to explore Portland and ESPECIALLY all of the nature in Oregon!! :) LOTS of pictures to come this next week or so, I'm sure!

Here are some photos from when Anna and I hung out!



















til next time!

A New Curve for Sale: Summer Sun

I've recently discovered a new curve that I adore, and I've finally gotten around to uploading preview images to share it with you all! I've named it Summer Sun, and I love it because it not only adds lovely tones, but it works well on a large variety of photographs, making it extremely useful for me (and hopefully for you, too!).

Curves are wonderful because they're easy to adjust slightly, either by directly modifying the curve itself or by adding another layer beneath or above the curve. So, if you want the picture to be a little bit lighter or darker, it's easy to fix, whereas actions are much more rigid.

Summer Sun is $10. OR, you can order all 6 of my curves for $20, making this curve $6 as a part of the package deal!
You can order it sending the $10 to emilytebbetts@comcast.net on Paypal! Make sure you put a note specifying the curve you want (since I also have curves I've put up previously that frequently get ordered). Within 24 hours (usually within an hour or two) of receiving payment, I'll send you the curve file via email!

See some of my other curves here! http://emilytebbetts.blogspot.com/2010/04/roll-over-test.html

Put your mouse over the images below to see before/afters. Enjoy!! :)

the 4th of July

it was a fairly spontaneous and very fun July 4th. Sandy Honing came to my town from NYC and we drove to Anna's to shoot around a bit and watch fireworks. Sandy is so fun and bubbly and we had so much fun chatting on the way down to Anna's! we got free ice cream from Vien who was working, and drove around trying to find a place to shoot since we got there around 6:15 and most of the places we'd normally go were blocked off for fireworks.

Vien suggested a beach on the bay nearby, and it turned out to be perfect. we messed around a bit with our cameras and then sat and watched some beautiful fireworks, chatting the whole time. it was so much fun! we'll be hanging out and shooting a lot this summer. plus we'll probably be meeting up with a lot more photographers this summer, since tons of them will be in NYC! :) so keep a lookout!

there are so many fun, exciting things happening now and soon. summer is wonderful, and it's only just begun (for me). :)