A Strike and a Miss!!!!

So, I am working towards being a major boudoir photographer in Ocala, last week Saturday was Valentines day and my wife coincidentally picked #17 for my P52 and that number was lingerie!!!!  How perfect was that?!?!?  Well, not as perfect as I thought, I got no work done at all!  I considered shooting the lingerie alone but that wasn't grabbing me.  In my eyes, lingerie is best shot on a person (I've done a lingerie shoot or 2 in Orlando so I know).  By the time  I came to that realization, I wasn't able to get a model booked and the week was a bust :(.

Its not the worst thing in the world but I will not do what I did with my last project.  It took me 2 years to complete my P-365 ... yeah.  So, back to work; I'll have something for ya'll this weekend. :)


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P52 - Week 4 - Black and White

The week started out a little slowly because I really wanted to get it right.  Yes, you can make any photo black and white but when it is done right it makes more of an impact.  I found some interesting things and about halfway through the week, I got wind of a black and white photo event at local studio.  Enjoy!!

Wonderful model Angelica Stacey.  Its great when a model knows what they are doing, makes my job easier and makes me look like a sharp shooter :).

I really have no idea why this worked so well but I love it!!  It almost glows.  Its a little flower but its almost more than an Ocala photographer could ask for.

This, I actually saw last week off of the highway and I kept passing it and couldn't figure out where it was.  This has everything you need to make a great black and white photo; strong graphic elements (the lines), marked difference in colors (black soil, green grass, white whatever that is).  Its very cool.

I am working hard to be the headshot photographer in Orlando that is everyone's go-to guy so I make sure I always shoot a headshot.  Its easy to forget when you are doing a shoot with a model because you want to get the dress and the shoes and take in the whole look.  Never forget the power of eyes and a face, punch all of the way into that and grab some emotion and you have a strong image.  This is Emily.

I would say this is my signature, finding minor details and making it an image.  I just love lines and shapes.  As an Ocala boudoir photographer, this can come in handy.  I like the thought of creating art with people that has nothing to do with them.  The beautiful model that was wearing this dress was Lymari

 I also love clouds.  I saw this sky when I went to pay my rent.  If you don't, you should stop and look up sometimes; its amazing up there.

This woman here, Thao Tran!!!!!!!!  When they say #RiptheRunway, they are talking about her.  Really good at what she does and so gracious.  I hope I get to work with her again someday.  I'm sure every Orlando photographer wants to work with her so I'll just get in line :).

And my favorite shot of the night of, Miss Kayla Tague.  Again, these are the shots that I love doing most, simple, graphic and eye catching.


Yeah, I know I'm a little late posting, I will blame it on the event being on Saturday and after the event, I had to go audition for a few films so I couldn't get right to work when I got home.  Thank you for watching and have a good week.

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Success = Doing What Others Won't

It took a little bit of effort to get photos of this Mickey Mouse power tower.  I actually ended up having to go to the next exit, turn around and came back to get a better angle.  When you drive an SUV, it hurts to drive around in circles!   But when you want something bad enough, you will pay the cost.  Initially, it felt a little silly being pulled over on the side of the road but 1.) no one cares 2.) once I started snapping away, I didn't care.  I even had a road ranger stop and ask me if I was ok, LOL.

Make it a habit to go beyond, do more and work harder than other people.  When you do this, you get results that they can't.  Its also like working a muscle.  Once you work so hard, everything less than that level of effort is easy.  My instructors at +Truthful Acting Studios tell me, when training, you must always make everything as difficult as possible.  When you do this, you can work at any level of difficulty. 

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P52 - Week 3 - Circles

Yeah ... this was not working out for me at all!!!  Nevertheless, I did come up with a few slightly interesting things.

I'd say this is the best one.  I wish I could have been there later in the day so that I could have played with the sun a little more, but it was cool.  Can I claim to be the only headshot photographer in Orlando to have a larger than live headshot of Mickey Mouse?

This record was hanging from a string on the ceiling so I tried to catch the record while it was spinning but keep the words in focus.  I didn't have a tripod so it was a little difficult but I like the weirdness that the slight blur gives this image.  While a tripod is the best way to get a sharp photo, sometimes getting it wrong still works.

I loooove this!!!  Its this wire frame bowl that's a piece of wall art, very sexy.  Shooting this close makes right in front and right in back of the focal point blurry.  That leaves me with a slice that's in focus; very cool.  The shadows are awesome too.  Playing with shadows is a must for a boudoir photographer in Ocala (or anywhere for that matter).

P52 - Week 2 - Red

Ok, so A Sharp Photo's adventure this past week was the color Red.  I was a little delayed because I had to function as a headshot photographer in Atlanta last weekend but I caught up this week.  I am a little on the fence about how to handle this project on the whole.  Part of me wants to work on planning concepts but another part of me wants to let things be organic and true.  I'll figure it out.  I actually had 2 ideas that I didn't do that may have to roll into another week in a different way.

This was a 'berry good picture' (womp womp!!).  I was actually finished with the week but I saw this on the way home from church and figured it would work.

While I don't necessarily think the flower is all that exciting, I liked it against the yellow background.

I probably took like 50 photos of this flower; moved it around, changed the background, changed the lighting.  Sometimes I forget but its important to fully explore a subject to make sure you get the most out of it.

Just happened upon this.  I liked the contrast between the bright red, the green and the blue.

This was right next to the phone booth (how perfect is that for someone shooting red things).

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This store had this massive red lawn chair.  If I was thinking, I would have taken a photo in the chair because you can't tell how large the chair is.  Rookie mistake.


Yep, I know this is probably out of spec for a boudoir photographer in Ocala but I have to use my camera often (all of the time even) if I'm going to be #ASharpshooter.  If you haven't, like my page www.facebook.com/asharpphoto13 and you can see more of my work at my website: www.asharpphoto.biz.  You can purchase art there as well as see my work.

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Interrupting my regularly scheduled program

So I was supposed to have week 2 of my P52 up last week. The theme was Red.  Well, A Sharp Photo was in Atlanta with Detour Entertainment making connections and building the business up there.  I did get a great shot of the side of a church, brick; it was red but I converted it to black and white :).

But we did some really exciting things and they will play out as we get further into the year.  I will keep you posted.  While I am working towards becoming a major headshot photographer in Orlando, I am also working on building a boudoir business in Central Florida as well.  Here are a few of the shots I grabbed last weekend, Enjoy!!

Chris Greene

Celest Turner

Decatur Presbyterian Church

P52 - Week 1 - Cartoon

For a while, I'd been looking for something to add to #ASharpPhoto 's repertoire to make it even more unique.  I had started working with #cosplayers towards the end of last year and I thought it would be a great idea to turn some of those images into something that looked animated.  I tried fooling with filters in #Photoshop but it wasn't really getting me what I want.  I looked and didn't find anything.  One of my sisters was in town in December and I mentioned it to her.  Being the internet guru that she is, she found a solution for me within 5 minutes.


Initialy, I applied the process the way I initially imagined it, to a #cosplay image.  I still had some growing to do but it was a good start.

I knew that I was going to apply this look to cosplay shoots where it fit and I really didn't think more about it.  Well, my wife's cousin posted a selfie and my wife said she looked like "Chocolate Sunshine" and that triggered something in my head and I came up with this:

That was so much fun that I thought I should explore it more.  Also, working on this made me realize that I needed to think of the actual painting/drawing aspect a lot more than I had.  Uh ... I don't paint or draw but who says I can't try.  The last image that I worked was one of my favorites.  It actually a panoramic stitch of a few images.  The purpose of that is to photograph something that may normally be too large for your lens in bite sized chunks and then put it together as one large image.  This is what I produced:

Lastly, I wanted to create something that was closer to 'real'.  More thought went into shading and blending skin tones to make this look natural.  Of course this works best if its #ASharpPhoto in the first place (you see what I did there?...)

I'm done with this week but I am definitely not finished with this process.  I am actually considering looking deeper into actual drawing and shading so that I can really bring this to life.  And that is the end of my first week's journey this year in my quest to be #asharpshooter.
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