To The Top!!!

No photos this week (maybe a few).  I didn't make time to do my P-52 but I have been working on something else.  My sister has been helping me beef up my website (www.asharpphoto.biz) and the goal is to work towards getting on the first page in Google when people search for a photographer in Central Florida.  She gave me 3 tasks:

1.)  Write out (yes, pen and paper) the format for my site.  Decide what areas of photography I will cover and make those headings.  If there are categories within those areas, make those sub headings.

2.)  Choose the photos I will use to represent those areas.  Better photos are more useful than more photos.

3.)  Write text for each page/section and add that to the website.  This may be the most important step because Google sees text much better than it sees photos.  When people search for you, Google looks for relevant text.  So I would need keywords that relate to; Central Florida, boudoir, headshots, photography and so on to be found and make it to that first page (angelic music plays).

I should be done by the end of this month so you will see some changes on my website :).  And I should be back on my P-52 next week :).

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I did do some boudoir work 2 weekends ago.

Enjoy!

A Sharp Photo is a Central Florida based (Orlando to Ocala) photography company specializing in Actor/Corporate headshots, Film & TV Production photography, Boudoir, Portrait photography and Art.  Michae E. Allen started this company in 2012 and his aim is to use photography to show people the beauty in themselves and the world around them.

P52 - Week 6 - Patterns

I enjoy making compelling images out of things that don't seem interesting.  This comes from my days have learning photography but not always being able to get out of the house or not having a model to shoot.  I had to learn to make something worth looking at out of the things that were near me.

See more of my work at www.asharpphoto.biz

A Sharp Photo is a Central Florida based (Orlando to Ocala) photography company specializing in Actor/Corporate headshots, Film & TV Production photography, Boudoir, Portrait photography and Art.  Michae E. Allen started this company in 2012 and his aim is to use photography to show people the beauty in themselves and the world around them.

Flip mode

Last weekend I got to photograph the Competitive Edge Dance Company benefit show .  While boudoir is my niche, it was pretty cool!  It took a little bit to catch the rhythm (absolutely I meant the pun) but it was fun when I caught great moments.  The 'on the fly' aspect wasn't totally different than the work I do as a film production photographer.  I wasn't asked to shoot the event but I always want to do something new, something I haven't done before.  Plus, its nice to get out of Orlando/Ocala and be in a new place.

It was a little dark in the place so even with my faster lenses, I ended up needing a flash.  In the future, I'd love to have lights off camera off to the sides of the stage.  Even bouncing on camera flash can give you shadows behind your subject and I like to avoid that.  The best place to shoot is at the top of the center aisle and that spot was taken so I moved around the edges initially and at the end of the show, I sat on the aisle in the 3rd row.  That felt a little awkward because I didn't want to stand up and be in the way; missed a lot of shots due to heads and cell phones :).

I kept my shutter speed at about 1/200 but I should have shot some a little faster.  At 1/200, you still get motion blur if people are moving fast enough and that is cool.  The blur implies motion and allows the viewer to feel it.  A faster shutter speed (in conjunction with the flash) would have totally frozen the motion and that has its own impact.

Here are just a few of the images I was able to grab, enjoy!

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P52 - Week 5 - Instruments

Yep, I started with my children's toy instruments; don't judge me.  But then I went to my church and I even asked if there was an instrument at my acting school, +Truthful Acting Studios  and they actually had a banjo.

As usual, I tried to find interesting ways to interpret the instruments.  Being visually captivated by the image was more important to me than being able to recognize the instrument.

Enjoy!

Toy Clarinet, making it black and white feels like #MoBettaBlues to me.

Who knew you could make a gyroscope out of tambourines

Isn't this the cutest little cello?

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