July 26, 2010

MOVED!

My new website is finally ready for revealing!

HTTP://SARAH-WAITE.COM

Please please update all your links and RSS feeds! I will be posting there from now on.

June 28, 2010

a long long post of 4 pretty ladies!

Recently, I did a photo session with my sister and three of her close friends. I’ve known these ladies for a while, and I’ve been quite privileged to photograph them multiple times. I was thrilled with how these shots turned out. So much so that I just had to share a bunch of them! I especially love the last shot because you can’t tell where one girl’s hair starts and the next begins. Awesome.

June 26, 2010

shadow portraits

I know I’ve been totally slacking lately on the blogging! I’ve been all over the place- setting up jobs, traveling, portraits, but I’m BACK and ready to do some serious posting. Here are some of my favorite portraits of Lauren in our shadow portraits shoot, with what I think is a good sampling of different edits. I loved the way these turned out. We had so much fun doing it and we got to channel one of our favorite shows: America’s Next Top Model. (For those who maybe don’t subscribe to the same caliber of television programming that we do, Tyra did a photo shoot with a related concept on an episode.) Please don’t hesitate to leave any feedback if you’ve got it.

May 31, 2010

more to come later…

May 27, 2010

revisiting old photo sessions

So, it is summer, and I have found myself with a pretty light schedule these days. In my downtime, I’ve found myself often leisurely editing old photography sessions. It’s surprisingly therapeutic! I found this great session that I did with the Bayha Family, and thought that with the wealth of new photo editing skills I have recently gained, I would take another look at it. There were so many cute portraits of this adorable family, but here are a few of my favorites.

You might also notice that the photos look a little different than the way that I normally edit them. That’s because recently, I have become absolutely obsessed with the desaturated, aged photo look. So sue me. (But really, don’t.)

And on a related note, if anyone is interested in doing family portraits (pets included!!), or couples portraits, or individual portraits, or ANYTHING please let me know! I’ve got plenty of time on my hands and a desire to do some photography. Contact me at sarahewaite@gmail.com! I promise it’ll be super fun. :]

May 22, 2010

space: further developments

So, I graduated! That’s pretty neat! I’ve been doing a lot of stock photo editing this summer, but I realized that I haven’t blogged about my artwork in a while. Here are two more space pieces that didn’t make it in time for my show, but are more or less resolved now. The first one hasn’t been named yet, but the photograph is composited out of photos of dirt on a car windshield and some glitter. I did a little bit of digital drawing on that one as well, which is something I haven’t used much in this Space series. The second image is made out of a photograph of some raindrops, a rainbow reflection of a CD on my ceiling, and a close up of a sponge. It is reminiscent of the Crab Nebula, if you ask me. :] It’s called M08 Celluporous Nebula, and it’s actually up in a Spraygraphic photo show at Phoenicia Association downtown.

If you guys have any questions about the process of making these, or anything further about what photos went into each of the creations, please don’t hesitate to ask! There are about a million ways to contact me, so leave me a comment or check out my “Contact” page linked at the top. And as always, you can find bigger versions of these images at my Flickr page.

May 13, 2010

GRADUATION!

Today is graduation day! Congratulations to all my friends who are graduating from ASU, and from other institutions as well. A few of my very close friends in the photo department are achieving their Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography with me, so congrats to Dayna Bartoli and Kelly Griffin!

A special congratulations goes out to my family members who are graduating with me this spring. My mom, Tessa Miller, is graduating from the University of Phoenix with her Bachelor of Science in Business degree (BSB), and my little brother Max is graduating from elementary school to junior high (Go Ingleside MS!). Good job guys! :]

Mom, Max, and Me!

So to everyone that has been working their butts off and finally achieved what they have been aiming for:

May 1, 2010

dave hill

I keep a folder of interesting photographers and their websites for when I’m in need of a little inspiration. Most of the websites, I don’t remember how they even came to me and ended up in my folder. But, regardless, they are there! Today I want to share with you one of my current favorite artists: Dave Hill. You can take a look at his work here: Dave Hill Photography.

A lot of his work is used for advertisement, and understandably so. The pieces have a certain HDR quality that is both intriguing and marketable. The photos are so intricate and engaging that I can see why they would be used as ads. But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being marketable. Some artists, particularly when younger, might stress the importance of not “selling out,” but it’s not selling out if you are just making the work you always make with the style you always use and just happen to be making money off of it.

Anyway, the images that Hill creates are a testament to the capabilities of digital photography. The images are incredible – I could just look at them forever. The website also features a really neat behind the scenes section, in which you can find videos of the shoots used to make the photographs. I loved the video for Girl on an Adventure – part of it shows the crew threading the corner of a model’s jacket so they can pull it back to make it look like it’s blowing in the wind.

Here’s a picture from the Girl on an Adventure series that I love. I would recommend anyone and everyone check out his website. It’s a stunner to your senses and a great example of the kind of work that I love to look at.

Dave Hill, image from Girl on an Adventure series

April 29, 2010

senior portraits: gini

Since I’ve been so swamped with my senior show and all, I haven’t had the opportunity to make a blog post about the senior portraits that I did recently! Gini is graduating Arcadia High School and I had the opportunity to do her senior portraits. She was a breeze to photograph and a natural model (and so tan!). Here are a couple of my favorites from the session.

Lensbaby magic! ^

I LOVE this graffiti here.

If you or anyone you know is interested in booking some senior portraits with me, please send me an email at sarahewaite@gmail.com and we can go over the details! And as always, more of these photos can be found on my Flickr page, which is linked over to the right.

Thanks Gini!

April 26, 2010

bfa senior exhibition, in retrospect.

I had a really great experience with my senior show. Everyone in my group was super agreeable, very helpful, and produced some high quality work. This was also my first actual gallery show that I have had to hang myself, so I learned a lot about framing, matting, measuring, hanging, printing, advertising, planning a reception… I guess I never really thought too much about how much work went into putting a show together! But I wasn’t alone- Kelly Griffin was a huge help in everything and Jacque Donaldson was my savior in measuring and hanging help. One thing that I was particularly happy about was the fact that the reception had a really great turnout. There was so much traffic going through the exhibit… I think everyone got some exceptional EXPOSURE (get it, cause that was our exhibition title!).

ANYWAY, since I know you all have been dying to see my finished space pieces, here is a gallery of the five images that I included in the exhibition, as well as some installation views of Gallery 100! Please feel free to post comments and let me know what you think! And here is a link to the Flickr gallery so if you want to check out the full sizes of all of these images, you may: Space Set on Flickr!