Friday, March 19, 2010

AHS Fashion Show is online!

Click HERE to get to the online gallery. Fill out the form (it saves your favorites) and head on in to see the images!

If you want to pass the word along, people can also head to www.arcataphoto.com, scroll down to the client login for events and type in: ahsfashion



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Monday, February 22, 2010

Late? Never!


Last week, Eliot Claasen was completely confident that he’d get his photos into the Arcata High School 2009-10 yearbook, despite the fact the deadline was waaayyy past (maybe he mentioned something about having a friend in the yearbook staff… we don’t know). And why shouldn’t Claasen be confident? The accomplished guitarist returned last year from France after a year spent on Sunrise Rotary of Arcata’s exchange program. He’s zeroing on a college app process with Stanford at the top of the list. So who were we to argue?  We spent the Wednesday morning (Eliot wasn’t ditching class, it was Presidents Week) in our Jacoby’s Storehouse studio and hitting some favored haunts near the Old Humboldt Creamery when we realized we’d photographed Eliot’s older sister Sadie there two years ago for her senior portraits. All in the family. 

Thursday, February 18, 2010

See it all


We're still getting great feedback on our Moxie sessions – high-fashion bridal portraiture – ever since we unveiled it at the Fortuna Bridal Faire in January. Model Krista Miller had a big part in that success, which we kinda attribute to her insisting on wearing her cowboy boots with her wedding dress during her Moxie shoot in Arcata. Several brides-to-be announced: "that is sooo me," on seeing Miller's images. She's a school teacher (a total math whiz at Coastal Grove Charter) and one of Humboldt Roller Derby's top players (!?!). For reals. Arcata Photo Studios has been collaborating with HRD since its inception, providing photography and bout poster design (yes, we do graphics services, as well: everything from graduation announcements to the Humboldt Crabs' season program each year). So when it came time to build our ad for the 2010 Season Program, it only made sense to feature Krista (Millertime, her nom de guerre). She pretty much defines Moxie (courage, sass, skill). See ad and Millertime's 2009 HRD poster. Then see Millertime kick butt at derby's season opener Saturday, February 27 at Redwood Acres at 6 p.m. And then see Arcata Photo Studios at Blue Lake Casino Bridal Fair on Sunday, March 7. See stuff!

Friday, February 5, 2010

AAI @ APS




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High School’s Arcata Arts Institute continues its monthly presentation of emerging artists. During the Friday, Feb. 12 Arts!Arcata monthly downtown arts walk, three of the program’s leading photographers will share a show in Arcata Photo Studios, located on the Plaza Level of Jacoby’s Storehouse. Students Kim Wright, Treyce Meredith and Liam Sanborn-Peterson with take over the studio’s walls, displaying recent work. Under the tutelage of Anne Bowen Crawford, the pre-professional arts program offers young talent classes designed to prepare them for advanced education with a school-to-career emphasis. AAI courses place students in one-on-one working relationships with eight established artists and regular presentations from visiting professionals. Meredith, Sanborn-Peterson and Wright have proven to be outstanding photographers and deserving of show sharing their work with the town. More information about AAI is available at artsinstitute.net and news on the February show at arcataphoto.com or (707) 825-1061.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Moxie, rocked






Hey! We're going to the Bridal Faire! OK, we definitely did not shout that Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m.. After a long Saturday shoot in SoHum, and looking toward a day spent in a booth pitching wedding packages... that could go very wrong. But truth be told - the Fortuna Bridal Faire on Sunday, Jan. 10 was... really cool, and time well spent. There we got to hang out with some fellow folks we really like in the industry – caterers, deejays, designers and photographers (we did spend much of the afternoon messing with Carol Niles). And we had something new to throw out there: the Moxie line. Basically we realized that the stuff we really want to do, and the really artistic photography clients deserve, you rarely have time for during the big wedding day. The rush of meeting schedules like the catering line, vows and bouquet throw more often than not determines the amount of time brides and grooms have for photography. So why not devote a day to it beforehand: spend the afternoon at an amazing location (we've mapped a bevy) with hair and makeup (we have several skilled artists) and create well-lit images that will last a lifetime and be handed down through generations. Forward fashion and high art: Moxie (courage, sass and skill). Women deserve it. The fair was packed and we talked to a bunch of brides. And a slew of them really got it, understood what we were promoting and saw them fitting in to Moxie. It didn't hurt that our model Krista Miller (Millertime on Humboldt Roller Derby) demanded to don her LoLa dress with her cowboy boots. The ladies from Fortuna got that immediately, just like others understood Jessica Fowler's bride in the post-industrial collapse portraits. Additionally, our booth looked good and stood out at the show. It was worth it. So we did return yelling: Hey, we just went to the Bridal Faire!