Our newest assignment for you is “Brrrrrrrr!!”!

Your assignment is to show us your best images interpreting Brrrrrrrr!, whatever that means to you! This might be a photojournalistic exercise or an artistic construction. We leave it up to you to define the phrase and how you will interpret it.

You are more than welcome to comb through your files for a photo that illustrates the term, but we would absolutely love it if you shot something for the assignment, special!!

Our assignment series is open to everyone. We’re hoping you’ll wanna play along! The most creative entry wins!

We will post all of the entries on our Facebook page, and post a few of our favorites on our blog, complete with a link back to your blog or website.

How to enter :

Images should be sized to 590 pixels on the long side. (If you need help figuring that out, ask your favorite Shootstyler.) And by all means, slap that logo on there if you have one! You can enter up to one photo a day for the duration of the assignment. Email your entry to:

assignment@shootstyle.com

We have an album on our Facebook fan page. When the entries start coming in, we’ll post them there first. Check in with us at Facebook if you are looking for some inspiration.

www.facebook.com/ShootStyle

The deadline is February 15! Let’s have fun doing this together!! Assignment series: “Brrrrrrrr!!”

From our stacks of albums, holiday portrait shoots, consults for next year’s weddings, and mountains of print orders to yours, we at ShootStyle would like to wish you the happiest of holidays, and the most successful New Year ever! We look forward to seeing you at all of our exciting sharing events in 2012!

First place goes to Audra Medunitza-Welton. Her image of a person crossing an intersection, through a rainy window was made perfect by the 2 red lights.

Our the second place winner is Karen Soltero’s image of a cyclist speeding down the street. Nearly gave us vertigo!

Third place is Benjamin Corey’s colorful image of a night scene in front of the Colosseum, bonus points for action and light flare.

A great big thank-you to our participants, winner and most of all our generous sponsor, Ultra Color Lab for hooking us up with a fantastic Grand Prize of a 20×30 photographic print, and a 16×20 print for 2nd and 3rd place.

Keep your eyes peeled for our next assignment series coming soon!

Our newest assignment for you is “Street Style!”!

Your assignment is to show us your best images interpreting Street Style, whatever that means to you! This might be a photojournalistic exercise or an artistic construction. We leave it up to you to define the phrase and how you will interpret it.

You are more than welcome to comb through your files for a photo that illustrates the term, but we would absolutely love it if you shot something for the assignment, special!!

We have our amazing sponsor Ultra Color Lab back along hooking us up with a fantastic Grand Prize of a 20×30 photographic print, and a 16×20 print for 2nd and 3rd place.

Our assignment series is open to everyone. We’re hoping you’ll wanna play along! The most creative entry wins!

We will post all of the entries on our Facebook page, and post a few of our favorites on our blog, complete with a link back to your blog or website.

How to enter :

Images should be sized to 590 pixels on the long side. (If you need help figuring that out, ask your favorite Shootstyler.) And by all means, slap that logo on there if you have one! You can enter up to one photo a day for the duration of the assignment. Email your entry to:

assignment@shootstyle.com

We have an album on our Facebook fan page. When the entries start coming in, we’ll post them there first. Check in with us at Facebook if you are looking for some inspiration.

www.facebook.com/ShootStyle

The deadline is October 11th! Let’s have fun doing this together!! Assignment series: “Street Style!”

Jamie, Michelle, Zofia, Stacey and Andree each explained how they incorporate posing and composition to create great portraits at weddings and engagement sessions.

After the lecture everyone hit the streets to practice what they’d learned.

To see more photos from the day, check out ShootStyle’s FaceBook page.

We also want to give a big round to applause to our sponsor Ultra Color Lab.

Participants were wowed by the variety of elegant Silk Road albums that Ultra had on display. Thanks to Ultra Color for helping make the workshop possible!

While wedding days are filled with exciting candid moments that are fun to capture, sometimes the portraits can be more of a challenge.

In this workshop, ShootStyle members will take you through their favorite methods for creating great portraits. With a strong emphasis on composition and posing, workshop attendees will benefit from clear classroom instruction with specific examples and techniques that are proven in the real world. After the classroom portion, participants will have the chance to work with ShootStyle instructors and models (both “brides” and couples), in an interesting urban environment putting the new techniques into practice.

Participants will then have an opportunity to review the day with the instructors and other attendees. Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your portraits as the wedding and portrait season shifts into high gear!

Portraits with Panache, a workshop on composition and posing, will be held June 14, 2011 from 12-7pm at the Manchester Radisson (700 Elm Street, Manchester NH).

Click here to sign up!

Sponsored by Ultra Color Lab

He wrote a little prose to go along with his image:

“Here Comes the Sun Simulator SCKBLD3000.
Because even the Queen of the Damned deserves a killer tan.
As powerful as the the sun, but not quite as deadly.
Guaranteed. Call 1 (800) TAN-VAMP.”

This image took creative liberties with the concept of what the sun is and we especially love that the image was shot for the assignment. Very creative work!

Our second and third place winners were also incredibly creative!

A big congratulations to Kerry Struble for this image of stone steps in Yosemite,

and to Greg Hinson for this image of Great Point Light on Nantucket.

And thanks to everyone who entered, the voting has gotten more and more challenging with each installment of our assignment series!!

It’s the end of Winter! Time for SUN!!! in this installment of our ever-popular assignment series, we bring you the phrase “Here comes the sun!”

Your assignment is to illustrate the phrase “Here comes the sun!”. This might be a photojournalistic exercise or an artistic construction. We leave it up to you to define the phrase and how you will interpret it.

You are more than welcome to comb through your files for a photo that illustrates the term, but we would absolutely love it if you shot something for the assignment, special!!

Our assignment series is open to everyone. We’re hoping you’ll wanna play along.

The most creative entry wins!

We will post all of the entries on our Facebook page, and post a few of our favorites on our blog, complete with a link back to your blog or website.

How to enter!

Images should be sized to 590 pixels on the long side. If you need help figuring that out, ask your favorite Shootstyler! And by all means, slap that logo on there if you have one! You can enter up to one photo a day for the duration of the assignment. Email your entry to:

assignment@shootstyle.com

We have an album on our Facebook fan page. When the entries start coming in, we’ll post them there first. Check in with us at Facebook if you are looking for some inspiration.

www.facebook.com/ShootStyle

The deadline is April 15th!

Let’s have fun doing this together!! Assignment series: “Here comes the sun!”

Happy Winter! I hope everyone is enjoying their snow days!!, in this installment of our ever-popular assignment series, we bring you the phrase “In Yo Face!”

Your assignment is to illustrate the phrase “In Yo Face!”. This might be a photojournalistic exercise or an artistic construction. We leave it up to you to define the phrase and how you will interpret it.

Our assignment series is open to everyone. We’re hoping you’ll wanna play along.

The most creative entry wins! And we are offering our very best prize ever! A mounted 20×30 inch fine art print from Gamut Prints, delivered** to your doorstep!

We will post all of the entries on our Facebook page, and post a few of our favorites on our blog, complete with a link back to your blog or website.

How to enter!

Images should be sized to 590 pixels on the long side. If you need help figuring that out, ask your favorite Shootstyler! And by all means, slap that logo on there if you have one! Email your entry to:

assignment@shootstyle.com

We have an album on our Facebook fan page. When the entries start coming in, we’ll post them there first. Check in with us at Facebook if you are looking for some inspiration.

www.facebook.com/ShootStyle

The deadline is February 15th, that’s a Wednesday Tuesday! If you have a photo you shot already, that would be awesome. If you want to set up some sort of story or construction, even better!

Let’s have fun doing this together!! Assignment series: “In Yo Face!!”

** Non-US peeps must pay shipping

One of the big challenges faced by wedding photographers in New England is that our wedding receptions often take place in dark, windowless halls. Worse, these halls are sometimes run by catering managers who feel that turning the lights down to almost nothing gives their hall a romantic ambiance.

Well, that may be, but the dim atmosphere also means that Grandpa can’t read the menu and we wedding photographers can’t shoot using available light.

So the question facing us isn’t ‘should we light the reception’ but rather ‘how should we light the reception?’

There are a number of approaches to lighting the reception and each of the ShootStyle members do it a little differently as you can see in the examples below.

At this hands-on lighting workshop, ShootStyle members will be demonstrating everything we know about lighting a reception. And since none of us tackle lighting a reception in exactly the same way, you’re likely to see an approach that suits your style of photography.

We’ll be working with flash on camera, flash off-camera, sync cords, radio triggers, multiple speedlights, light-on-a-stick and even studio lights. We’ll cover topics such as lighting the entire dance floor, balancing your lights with the ambient light, and creating dramatic lighting. And because time is always tight on a wedding day, we’ll also show you how to get different looks from a single lighting set up.

We’ll probably be introducing you to some new equipment was well as new techniques. We all know that buying new gear is fun, but great light starts with getting the most out of what you already own, and we’ll be there to help you do just that! Bring whatever equipment you currently have including a camera, strobe(s), stands, triggers, cords, fast lenses, etc.

There’ll be a lot to cover and we’ll be zipping right along, so to get the most out of this workshop, you’ll need to already have some understanding of basic camera function.

The Rock Your Reception Lighting workshop is happening on Thursday, February 24th from 1pm to 7pm at the Elks Club in Worcester, MA. It is limited to the first 20 people who sign up. Tickets cost $99 and are non-refundable (but if you find you can’t make it you can transfer your ticket to a another photographer).

We look forward to seeing you there!