Ballet Portraits

Ballet Portrait's

Last Saturday we had some Ballet Portraits at Jessica's Little Feet Dance Studio.

We had 14 sets of ballerina's come in, and they were a lot of fun to photograph. All in all I took about 560 pictures over the 11 hours that I was there. :) It will take me a while to process all of the sets, so far I finished 4 of them. Here are a couple images.





edit 2009.05.19 - fixed the broken images above.

I will be posting more as I get the images processed. Also I am hoping I can obtain a couple model releases so I can show some of those portraits as well. One of which I am planning on trying a photoshop painting technique on one of them. :D

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Providing Photographic services to Southwest Virginia and
East Tennessee, and surrounding area.
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Mothers Day Portrait Giveaway Winner Announcment

Well its time to have the Mothers Day Portrait Giveaway Winner Drawing.

The Winner is..................................... Anita Taylor of Castlewood, VA.

Anita has won a free family portrait session, and a 11x14 print.

Thank you to everyone that participated in this giveaway. :)
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Gerald Fagan Photography - www.GeraldFaganPhotography.com
276.791.3711
Providing Photographic services to Southwest Virginia and
East Tennessee, and surrounding area.
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Goat Standing on a Cow

We were coming home from Kingsport TN yesterday and we seen this sight. We had to turn around so I could take some pictures. : )



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Gerald Fagan Photography - www.GeraldFaganPhotography.com
276.791.3711
Providing Photographic services to Southwest Virginia and
East Tennessee, and surrounding area.
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GPS - not always trustworthy

I purchased a GPS a couple of weeks ago to assist me in finding my customers addresses for portraits. Partly because this area is rather spread out and rural, and partly because I dont know Kingsport and Johnson City TN as well as I would like. I was testing the device out to get familiar with it today in and around Kingsport TN and on the way home we hit the detour button over in Gate City. The route it gave was very scenic. After a while the road turned into a gravel road, and became more and more narrow. Then all of a sudden, the road was under water. This isnt the first time Ive seen a road underwater, I can think of two other locations that have water over the road and are fun to drive over. But this was rather wide, and looked rather deep. We decided to turn around, except there was no room to turn around, we had to back out for a while. :) Looking back I wish I took some pictures of this. It was rather funny. : ) On the way out we did notice a sign that we missed on the way in saying the road was not recommended for normal motor vehicles. :)

This reminded me of a scene from The Office. :D

And on the way to our house, we seen a goat, standing on a cow that was laying down. This was to funny not to get a picture of, so we turned around and on the way back the goat was now kneeling on the cow. I will post a picture when I get the chance. :)
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Gerald Fagan Photography - www.GeraldFaganPhotography.com
276.791.3711
Providing Photographic services to Southwest Virginia and
East Tennessee, and surrounding area.
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Update

Lets see whats new. Its been a couple of weeks since I have posted.

We are now working on the Church Directory book. Hopefully it will be ready to be printed in a week or two.

I have been working on improving my equipment/gear lineup. I have been wanting a 2nd camera body for a backup for a while now, and I found a really good deal for one, using Microsoft Live Cashback, I saved 13%. :D Ive also bought a 2nd Vivitar 285 flash. I will use this to replace my Vivitar 283, so in theory I should be able to take pictures much faster now, because I dont have to wait for the 283 to charge up.

If anyone knows of a Church that is in need of a new Church Directory, please let me know, I would really appreciate it. :D

And here is a picture of myself and my beautiful wife, taken during the Church Directory Portraits. I did a lot of running between the camera and the seat to pose for the picture that day. :)


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Gerald Fagan Photography - www.GeraldFaganPhotography.com
276.791.3711
Providing Photographic services to Southwest Virginia and
East Tennessee, and surrounding area.
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Music Reviews and Random Thoughts - PunksWithSkates.blogspot.com