Parker A Grimes Photography

Had a quick shoot with Heather. One location and about 45 minutes. I think we did pretty good with the time/location constraints. Here are some of my favorites.

On a completely unrelated note, I think I’ve finally settled on a format for my posts. I’ve been torn for quite a while about what size is best to display photos here on the blog. You may have noticed that I’ve been all over the map with the layout and size of my images here. I’ve been experimenting and have struggled to be satisfied any of the arrangements. I finally decided on 900 pixels wide. Actually inspired by the layout of boston.com’s Big Picture blog. They may be too big for some older monitor resolutions, but by clicking on my images (while on my blog and not in an RSS reader), the images will be sized to fit your screen a little better. In some cases that my be smaller or bigger than what you see here. The best viewing experience is really on my blog and not in an RSS reader. Although I won’t hold it against you if you just look at it in an RSS reader, that is what I do 90% of the time too.

Had fun taking Andi’s pictures. Andi is graduating from Canyon View High School in Cedar City. She actually finished up a bit early.

My goal was to take a familiar location and make it not-so-familiar. In other words, I didn’t want the location to be immediately obvious, although I’m sure it isn’t too hard to figure out. I think as photographers we need to be able to re-use locations and make them look fresh each time. At least that is how I feel and what I try to do. In reality, it is a good skill to have. Sometimes we don’t have a choice where the location is. We may be given a really crappy location, yet still expected to perform (make good looking pictures). Sometimes all you need is 3 feet of background. Think of it in those terms and new locations will start appearing everywhere.

I am not a real big photo tilting fan. I don’t tilt the camera just to look creative. I tilt when it is necessary for the composition to work. For example, if by tilting the camera I can eliminate something in the frame that takes away from the composition, then by dang I’ll tilt the camera. But no tilting just cuz. In this first shot, by tilting I was able to eliminate the edge of a building and still keep Andi’s elbow in the frame. I think it works.

Katie is a senior at Southern Utah University. She’ll be graduating this May and moving on to graduate school. Katie wanted some senior portraits and custom graduation invitations. I’m really excited about these photos and the invitations. As soon as she decides on which design she likes, I’ll post the invitation.