Friese Frame Photography

Wow, has it really been over a year since I posted here? I apologize for that!!

A year or so ago, the craft store chain Michael's welcomed anyone who wanted to take professional photographs into their stores (particularly the floral department). I heard about this challenge but was kind of out of the photography loop at the time so I kind of forgot about it until recently.

It might be from shooting out in nature recently and all the flowers I'm around that brought this challenge to mind - I'm not really sure - but I remembered the challenge and wanted to try it! Thankfully a friend was free to model for me so we met up at a local Michael's store and took some pictures!

We were only in the store for about a half hour but wow, we got some great shots!! I'm kinda blown away at how well these turned out. They don't look like they were taken in a store at all! I encourage fellow photographers to try this out if you're interested because I'm honestly in love with these photos.

Let's check them out!

Hi everyone!

I'm so happy to say that I've finally overcome my artist block and have been taking photographs again! I've already done three shoots at the time of writing this!

An exciting development in my photography is that I've started using off camera flash (OCF) again! I used it at one convention but carrying around the equipment was such a hassle I decided to nix it. I never really picked it back up after that because the majority of photos I took were at conventions and I sort of became a natural light photographer with some flash thrown in from time to time.

Flash forward to the last few weeks. I've come to realize that I don't really enjoy shooting at conventions anymore because it's too stressful and I'd rather put my energy into shooting things outside of conventions. I also remember that I have taken some awesome pictures in the past with OCF and I still have the equipment at home! I had the opportunity to go home, so I grabbed my OCF equipment and took some test shots of my dad. They turned out very well and I started getting the long-gone feeling of excitement of shooting again!

Once I started feeling excited about shooting again, I was able to put myself out there in a local cosplayer/photographer community and asked if anyone would like to model for me while I was in town. I got some interest and was able to work with a local cosplayer and we shot at a local park and the photos turned out great! I felt like I was getting my confidence back!

Honestly, I'm so happy things are going well with photography again. I want to take more and more photos and experiment with all sorts of techniques and people!

I'm not going to go over my off camera flash equipment/techniques in this post because honestly it's not that advanced of a set up and there are plenty of other of posts/videos about the technique on the internet but if you are interested in that information, let me know!

And now the part you've all been waiting for: Pictures! All of these are taken within the last week. Enjoy!

Hello all! I've been inspired recently to do some photography out of my comfort zone - landscape photography! My main inspiration came from some friends that are in Japan and are taking really cool photos! I also watched some youtube videos on the subject and decided to head out the other day and try my hand at landscape photography!

Now, I'm just starting with landscapes so I still have A LOT to learn, but these are (in my opinion) some of the better photographs.

I was under the impression that landscapes were shot with mainly a wide-angle lens (which I don't have) so I was happy to find out that one of the favorite lenses to use was a telephoto lens! I used my Canon 70-200 2.8 lens for all of these pictures!

I have not mastered manual mode yet so I shot most of these in Shutter Priority mode (Tv) which lets me control the shutter speed for the long lens and the aperture is up to the camera. This is where I messed up in a few photos and should've switched the Manual mode to increase my aperture so I would get a sharper image. You'll see what I mean in the photos. There's a lot of bokeh.

1. Check the aperture of the shot. Adjust if needed!
2. I like to focus on little details
3. I like movement in a photograph

Hello! I hope you all have been well.

I have been busy lately working on my latest project: Crowns!

This project came about from a couple of sources of inspiration. One being art history and how halos are depicted as either solid circles or radiating poles of light. The second source of inspiration was the MET Gala this year. The theme for the MET Gala 2018 was "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" and celebrities really took the theme to heart. The outfits were beautiful but what really inspired me were the halo inspired crowns that they were wearing. Here are a few examples:

I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July! I decided to visit the Cincinnati Zoo for the first time in many years to test out taking photos at the zoo! I had a blast at the zoo and learned a lot! I brought my Canon 70-200 mm 2.8 lens and it did a beautiful job! I'm glad I was able to use that lens since I mainly use my portrait lens but man it gets heavy after awhile. I'm going to have to use it more or start working out or something!!

Hello and welcome to the blog/website of Friese Frame Photography!

I'm still getting things set up but I hope to be pretty active here!

Thank you for visiting and I hope to post something you find inspiring soon!

- Sarah