I really enjoy this city. The people, the atmosphere, the creativity that flows through me, and making memories and laughing with my friends while I’m here.

My first shoot was with Jordan in an old park that’s pretty vacant. It was a good setting because it had some of the city skyline in the background, benches, dead trees, city decay, and obviously snow all around us. The temperature was probably in the 20′s and I had her prancing around in a mini dress and she was barefoot. She was a total trooper the whole time though and only started to feel the cold when her feet went numb.

My friends Joe and Jose came by to help out and take some behind the scene photos for me. Jose took all these photos and Joe helped me lug around the lights and be my test subject so I could get everything just right.

On a side note-I mainly shoot outdoors with natural light and rarely rely on using strobes with my shoots. My shoots rarely are over the top productions so I don’t really use any lighting but the big fireball in the sky. However, that limits what I plan on doing with my work so I wanted to have fun and try some new things. My good friends Amanda and Justin let me borrow their AlienBee ab800 and beauty dish to try out. I really enjoyed it and the results that I got from it.

Needless to say Philly spoils me.

Check out these pages of my friends while your at it.

Jordan Supernavage
Jose Rosado
Joseph Balestra

These are the top keywords searched in Google to find my website, www.dustingenphoto.com

You can find more of Alysha at the following links.

Model Mayhem
Twitter
Facebook Fan Page
Tumblr

You can find Joe Balestra on the following websites.
Model Mayhem
Tumblr
Krop Creative
Facebook Fan Page

]]> http://dustingenphoto.com/artist-feature/featured-photographer-joseph-balestra.html/feed/ 0 http://dustingenphoto.com/artist-feature/tiffany-fortier-photography-returning-to-maine.html http://dustingenphoto.com/artist-feature/tiffany-fortier-photography-returning-to-maine.html#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:40:04 +0000 Dustin http://dustingenphoto.com/?p=328 Not many people know this but I am originally from the South Shore area of Massachusetts. I grew up in the wonderful state of Massachusetts but had the pleasure of moving to Maine for my high school years. I love Maine and it will always hold a special place in my heart. When I first started shooting a few years back I always heard this name being thrown around from other models and photographers. That name was TIffany Fortier. So I was curious as to who she was and looked up her work. I was blown away. Not only was she a few years younger than me. She has an eye for photography and fashion that is wise beyond her years.

Within the last year she moved to Florida but is planning a move back to Maine. When you think of Maine you don’t really think about fashion photography at all. But you will now. Tiffany Fortier will put Maine on the map as one of  New Englands up and coming fashion photographers. So New England models, make up artists, hair stylists, clothing designers, etc etc be on the look out for Tiffany Fortier and I highly suggest that you jump at any opportunity you can to work with her.

This is in Tiffany’s own words…

As some of you may have already heard, I will be leaving the sunny state of Florida and moving back to Maine at the end of Summer 2010!

It’s been a great year! I’ve gained an unbelievable amount of experience inside the fashion and modeling industry, meeting some of the most talented groups of people I have ever had the pleasuring of meeting! I’ve grown not only as a young photographer but as a young adult in ways I never thought possible. I’ve accepted every opportunity presented to me over the past year and every one of them has had great impact on my life; Good or bad, I would not have changed this experience for the world. Times have certainly been rough, learning to life on my own for the very first time but, in the end, it has only furthered the passion of my career and of simply living life to the fullest. I will be sad to go but, in the end, Florida is just not for me. Maine will always, surprisingly, have my heart!

So what’s next?

I will be moving back to Maine at the end of Summer ( finances permitting ) to be with my family, to see my friends, and to work as hard as I possibly can to prepare my next move, to Philadelphia, PA; One step closer to my ultimate goal, New York City.

I will be coming back in full force.

I am ready and eager to show the beautiful state of Maine how Fashion and Beauty photography should be done! I will, once again, be offering studio sessions to those of you who are interested in seeing the ins and outs of studio fashion and, of course, will be offering never-seen-before location sessions to those of you who are a little more adventurous! You will learn endless amounts of tips and tricks to high fashion modeling that I have learned over the past year, things that other photographers, simply, can not teach you. You will leave with knowledge, you will leave with experience, and you will produce some of the absolute best photographs in your portfolio!

Tiffany is available for the following:

• Fashion/Beauty Portraits
• Modeling Portfolio Development
• Professional Headshots
• Senior Portraits
• Child Portraits
• Live Events
• Band Promotion
• Band Merchandise
• Engagement Sessions
• Weddings

For booking inquires, please contact Tiffany via her E-mail: Tiffany@TiffanyFortier.com

You can find Tiffany Fortier on the following websites
Personal Portfolio
Facebook Fan Page
Model Mayhem
Flickr

All images in this post ©2009-2010 Tiffany Fortier

You can find Tiffany Ann Photography on the following websites.

I have also had the pleasure of photographing Tiffany. It is not very often you come across someone who works behind the camera just as well as in front of it; not to mention she was so fun and easy to work with. She may be tiny, but this Rhode Island native packs a mean punch when she strikes a pose. She and I have also worked with a number of the same models and every time Tiffany is mentioned I hear nothing but praises and kind words about her.

Photographers use social networking sites out there such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc to get their work to the masses. This is how Zach Sutton and I become associated with one another. Twitter is an amazing way to meet photographers from all over the country and even the world. We can talk shop about current gear, editing styles, lighting, and just joke around.  I have had the pleasure of getting to know Zach over the last few months since we have followed each other on Twitter and I think he is a real humble guy who know’s his craft. He is based out of Western Michigan and his main focus is on specializing in fashion photography and music photography. See more samples of Zach’s work after the jump.

You can find Zach Sutton Photography on the following websites.

Zach Sutton Photography
Facebook
Myspace
Model Mayhem
Twitter
Flickr

The SPRITZERS beta testers and their amazing work.

The SPRITZER action set is a new blend of cross processing that adds very slight touch of vintage look to your photographs. These actions added a whole new look and depth to my photos and I cannot stop using them!

Samples of the actions with my photographs.

You can purchase these actions long with all her other actions on her blog, The Photo Professional. I highly suggest everyone check’s out these new actions.

You can also find Michelle Black’s work and actions on these following websites…

Michelle Black Concepts
Light-Traces
The Photo Professional
Follow her on Twitter
Join her Facebook Fan Page
Model Mayhem

…I wasn’t lying when I said she had a lot of websites