After catching some waves at the beach today i want to shoot some portraits. Here are some portraits of my sister holding a little DIY later as a cool little prop. I mostly used lightroom and a little bit of photoshop to edit these images.

Caught some surf today. Had to bring out the camera to catch some cool moments. I never really put out Black and White photos. So i had to try something different today.

Today i wasn't doing to much. I was sitting home and i saw the sun going down. Perfect time to capture a sunset shot. So i got in my car and started heading to the beach and i passed my local park and saw people riding horses. Then i pulled over to capture this moment. This meant something special to me because i never see people riding horses on this trail so i just had to go document this. Here is what i ended up with.

 Austin Prendergast

09/29/16

Jim Lennons Studio 

Iv'e never been in a official photo studio before. When i walked in i was super impressed the way it was set up. The atmosphere felt like it was a really fun place to take photographic images.There was top of the line camera gear everywhere. Jim showed us around at first and then brought us to the entrance and talked to us for a while. We all talked about how important it was to always have clients. In his position he was only comfortable if he was making $1,800 a day for three days a week. He told us that if you could build a good relationship with a client, they could give you work for life. i always have the mind set with not being comfortable with everything. i always try to push myself as hard as i could go and even then i feel that something can be different and better. Hearing him go over everything to make a living being a photographer kind of stressed me out and it was making me think everything over but I'm confident in this field and i want to pursue it. What ever it is i need to do to become successful in this field i will try and try and won't give up. Jim told us when ever he goes into a job he never ever worries about anything shooting wise because he has so much experience and knows how to shoot a great photograph. Showing the client that you can do the job and showing them no fear is a great way for your client not to worry about the work that your doing.
Going into the studio i thought to myself that i was going to learn about the high end gear and how things work but he taught us a better lesson then that. Showing us how to keep good contact with clients and how to stay on top of work to have jobs. The experience was great and i learned a lot about the business which is a great things to know for the future.

Today i went to Montauk. I stopped along the way and shot some photos of some spots i thought looked nice. When i was editing these photos i was going for a look of an old film camera. I used lightroom and i was playing around with my Tones,highlights, shadows. Found a style and made it to a custom preset to have all of my photos have the same feel.