Photography Portfolio Session – Eric H.

Hey Everyone!! Look at me all updating TWICE in one week!

The time has come once again to present another photo shoot to be part of my growing portfolio, but as always – a little background story first!

The photo session with Eric H. came about kind of out of the blue and very quickly. Eric and I have only known one another for only a few weeks. We met literally over face book after a friend of mine had approached him asking if he’d let me photograph him. Eric was immediately up for it and so we began arranging a time and throwing around a couple of ideas I had on what I wanted to achieve with the shoot. It is hard to explain in words just how excited Eric seemed to be for this shoot. It really made me feel great to have such an enthusiastic person to photograph!

That is leads me into the main point of the blog post for today. I honestly cannot explain just how genuinely nice Eric is as a human being. He seemed to really be excited to be a part of my photography endeavors to create a portfolio and was so easy to work with and get along with. He had no reservations with anything I threw at him, which for me is awesome since I seem to be the type to “fly by the seat of my pants” type of photographers. I will have a pretty basic idea of how I want the images to look, but I can side track at the flip of a coin to something else.

Normally, how I operate when I do a photo shoot is I will go for a while taking photos and not really speaking as I seem to get really wrapped up in the photo taking process. After a couple of shots pass, I try to show the model the images on the camera screen, just so they can be aware of exactly what I’m doing. Every time I did, Eric’s eyes seemed to light up and he seemed so excited about what we were creating together. That was the thing with Eric too, even though I would go for an extended period just shooting, he seemed very at ease and comfortable. We would once in a while make some type of small talk (including me flinching once as a bird swooped down almost hitting him on the head as he just kept on focusing on me, not even fazed even though I saw a much worse outcome!), but mostly we just wandered around Lagoon Park (a park in the town I live in) in a very comfortable silence.

I feel like I am dragging a dead horse around with my point here, but the one thing that set in stone just how decent of a guy Eric seemed to be came when we were heading back to his vehicle to drive to a separate location for more photos and he without hesitation offered to carry some of my equipment. It was just small things like having the decency to do that that set him apart from any other client that I have worked with. The fact that he cared enough to do that was just humbling.

Okay! I am done with my babbling – I just want to give a HUUUGE Thank You to Eric for working with me, and hopefully we’ll get the opportunity in the future for another great session!

Now on to the photos…

The following 3 photographs are what is known as a “Bokeh Panorama” – Basically each one of these photos are three separate photographs that I have "stitched" together to create one large image. Awesome, eh? 


You can see a diagram of how this was achieved on my facebook page