Tumblr Style Shoots
It seems like most social media posts are being filled with these artist images, and I am getting more and more requests to take them. Although I love my portraits, I decided to give it a try and it actually was a lot of fun.
You've seen them everywhere, the lonely ice cream cone, the handholding friendship goal photo. They are everywhere.
In order to appeal to greater audiences and pallets, and my daughter, I have decided to learn more about this style and try to harness it. I was very happy with the end result. I like using either film, or a film style preset edit them, giving it the edgy look they seem to enjoy.
Final vote, I still love my crisp portraits, but if It gets my daughter off my back, ill do these as well LOL.
Seeing your Tumblr style shoot ideas instantly threw me back to the weekend I spent in an abandoned train station with a friend who’s a photographer. We were both obsessed with that vintage, grainy aesthetic, so we packed a cheap retro camera, a handful of mismatched outfits, and a few cheap fairy lights. The station’s rusted tracks and broken windows gave us the perfect backdrop, and we spent hours playing with angles, shooting from low to make the platform look endless and from high to capture the stark ceiling beams. I remember how the light filtered through the cracked panes, casting long shadows that made every pose feel cinematic. When we finally looked at the results, the photos had that…