Friday’s Foto
Posted on January 29, 2010
Believe it or not, I love taking photos. Some shoots I love to create, other’s I love to just capture. I take so many photos of random things that don’t always fit in a regular blog post so I decided that every Friday, I want to post a favorite photo from the week or something from the past here and again. Hopefully it’s something that forces me to be creative while thinking of this post throughout the week.
Today I wanted to start with last night’s sunset because it was so breath taking. As I was finishing up a little family shoot in Dana Point the sky became bright pink. It was so clear you could see not only Catalina Island but San Clemente Island as well. Enjoy!
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Pawnshop Kings ::: Rehearsal + Concert Coverage
Posted on January 28, 2010
After looking at a bunch of the footage I shot for the Pawnshop Kings last week I decided to piece together a little video. There are some clips of video and then photos of course. I’m not exactly a video editor but hopefully you like it! I love documenting bands so this was a blast. Definitely check out their music – Pawnshopkings.com
Pawnshop Kings – OC Music Awards from Braedon Flynn on Vimeo.
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Help for Haiti Now ::: Justin Timberlake + Matt Morris
Posted on January 23, 2010
I was watching the Help for Haiti Now program with my wife last night and I was BLOWN away by the performance Justin Timberlake & Matt Morris did of ‘Hallelujah’. I’m a big Jeff Buckley fan and love his version of the song but this version almost brought me to tears it was so beautiful. I had to share it. You can download the performances on iTunes and all of the proceeds go to helping Haiti. Everything helps.
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Pawnshop Kings ::: OC Music Awards
Posted on January 22, 2010
Tuesday night, I had the honor of shooting some photos of the Pawnshop Kings as they rehearsed then performed during the Orange County Music Awards. They’re an incredible band live. Their music has a southern rock feel with a gospel twist. It’s beautiful, its raw, and its good. I hope they win. Here are a few pics from the evening played at the Continental Room in Fullerton. Check out their site and music by clicking here.
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Clayton James ::: 1.14.10
Posted on January 18, 2010
A little while back I posted maternity photos of Justin and Sandra, who are Lindsay and I’s really good friends. We have been SO excited for them to have their baby. There is this love for your own child the moment they come into this world that you can’t explain to someone, it is something you only get when they are your own. You fall in love with their little fingers and toes, and all the little funny newborn sounds, everything about them is perfect to you.
Sandra was such a rockstar during labor, and Justin was an amazing coach! Lindsay and I went to the hospital early in the morning on the 14th, and she had already been in labor for about 10 hours, so we thought that Clayton would be born soon after-wrong! He was born at 10:30pm, a 24 hour labor! We are so glad you are here Clayton! We can’t wait to raise our families together!
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Ryan + Holly ::: Film
Posted on January 13, 2010
On photo shoots and weddings, I always have a couple different cameras with me. My main camera shoots digitally, then the several other cameras I use all shoot film. I shot all of these on 3200 Illford film because I wanted some good grain. They’re similar to the shots in my last post but I think they have a different feel. What shots do you like better? What’s your preference between film and digital?
And here are my favorite Polaroids from the day. Shot on an older Hasselblad camera of mine.
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Ryan + Holly ::: Engaged
Posted on January 11, 2010
When Ryan and Holly came to me with the idea for their engagement shoot, a big smile crept on my face. I love it when couples have a vision for fashion and creativity. They wanted to model their shoot after a spread in W Magazine and I ran with some ideas. Holly is in school for fashion design and did all her styling for the shoot. Ryan is stylish himself so he pulled some clothes out of his usual wardrobe. So excited for their wedding in July!
I shot this on a couple different cameras using both film and digital to get various looks and feels. I’ll be posting the film shots tomorrow and you can see the difference. Let me know your thoughts on this shoot!
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Colorado with Family
Posted on January 8, 2010
Lindsay and I headed out to Colorado for Christmas to spend some time with her family. I love being out there. We had a gorgeous white Christmas and I had to shoot a bunch of photos of my little boy. It was his first time seeing snow (don’t know if he cared but I did). All the little baby snow outfits are so cute. They have little ears on everything and Declan looked like a little bear cub. Loved it! I wanted to share some photos from our trip:
Mom and Dad out on a stroll with the little guy!
Really, does it get much cuter??
This face is a favorite of mine:
Grandpa here was teaching Declan to shoot people with water as they waited to get their Christmas meal. They got Lindsay pretty good! Loved it.
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