Corey Civetta: Spotlight Photography #3
May 1, 2008
Name: Corey Civetta
I live in: right outside Atlanta, GA
Website: main: www.coreycivetta.com seniors: www.seniors.coreycivetta.com
Blog: www.coreycivetta.com/blog
How long have you been in business? 3.5 years
How long have you been shooting senior sessions? I shot a few random seniors when I first started my business, but I’ve been focusing on them more the past 1.5 years. They are definitely my favorite!
Describe your style: Fresh, funky, and FUN! I am definitely not into traditional senior portraits with oversized numbers and swings covered with fake flowers. GAG! I take more of a fashion approach and love to try new things! I am also very laid back and love to goof off!
Your drug of choice: Canon or Nikon? Canon
Your most embarrassing photographer moment: Recently, I was digging around in a closet to look for something before a session. My make up artist and I were talking to my client once she arrived when all of a sudden my MUA “smoothes” the side of my hair and said something about frizzies. Later, she told me I had a rather large dust bunny on the side of my head!
Oddest thing you take on a shoot or have in your camera bag: The Gary Fong lightsphere thing gets me plenty of weird looks …
One thing you cannot live without? Definitely my kids. I love ‘em to pieces.
What or who inspires you? My faith, my family, and pretty much everything I come in contact with.
5 things you have to have on a senior session:
- excitement + creativity = lots of fun
- gum - my way of freshening up before a session
- bottled water
- real shoes (afraid to wear flip flops because I climb a LOT during sessions)
- some sort of funky chair
Most visited website or blog: flickr.com - love all the variety and inspiration over there!
Things I still feel I need to learn: I’d love to learn more about Photoshop because I am definitely not using it to it’s full potential.
My guilty pleasures: Sugar-Free Dove Dark Chocolates with Raspberry Creme - YUM - and of course, almost anything from Starbucks.
How do you stay focused and or organized? What?! I’m supposed to do that? Great. I think I need to add that to the “things I still need to learn” …
Weirdest thing in your car: Hmmm … with 4 kids, anything is possible! Maybe my air freshener that has Kip holding a LaFawnda sign (Napoleon Dynamite).
Your favorite reality show: So You Think You Can Dance - I can’t wait for it to start up again!
The newest fashion craze that you LOVE or HATE and why: I LOVE the longer tees and the longer shorts but some of the babydoll shirts are far from flattering.
What’s in your ipod? A huge variety - I can’t even begin to list all of the styles. I especially love music I can dance to, though - slow or fast.
Your favorite beauty products? Anything Arbonne - amazing products!
If you were a F*R*I*E*N*D who would you be and why?
Rachel, Monica, Phoebe. Ross etc. Hmmm …. I’ll choose Phoebe. She cracks me up and I love her songs … lol
Your secret desire for 2008: Non-photography related, I’d really love to finish choreographing a song I have had on my heart for over a year now. I am going to dance it while my oldest daughter “signs” it. As far as my business goes, I really do need to work on that focused and organized thing … LOL
Lane Crabtree: Spotlight Photographer #2
March 31, 2008
{The Questions} My name is Janice Lane Crabtree…Janice to my customers and Lane to my friend…and I am from Canal Winchester, Ohio – BUCKEYE country!!
The website: www.janicecrabtreephotography
.com
1. How long have you been in business? 4-1/2 years
2. How long have you been shooting senior sessions? 4-1/2 years. I learned early on I didn’t like kids or brides – hehe! While I really do love children, I found my niche early on with seniors – I love teenagers!
3. Describe your style: It’s funny you would ask that! I was recently working on an assignment and I actually asked that question of my peers and clients. Many of them had the same answers I would have said – clean, fresh, creative!
4. Your drug of choice: Canon or Nikon? Canon
5. How & when the photography bug bit: I’ve painted and taken photographs my whole life – it wasn’t until recently that the photographs outweighed the painting and it has now completely replaced it!
6. My most embarrassing photographer moment: It might have to be the time I fell off a ladder onto railroad tracks at a client shoot, or maybe it was the time I fell off a ladder onto a playground, or, I don’t know, maybe it was the time I fell off a ladder in my studio!! Do you see a pattern here? I apparently bounce because I’ve never been hurt and more importantly, neither has my camera!!!
7. I can’t live without: Iced tea – even my customers bring it to me! On a serious note, my family – they are sooo supportive of me and my quest to become the best photographer I can be!
8. Inspiration: Everything around me – I think most creative people are like that – we tend to look at everyday things a little differently!
9. Five things I have to have on a senior session:
- Make-up bag
- Bug Spray – I like to shoot near water!
- Baby wipes
- Gum – for me, not them!
- Flip flops – in case I want them to go someplace I would worry about their shoes or being barefoot!
10. Most visited website or blog: www.pro4um.com – I love the inspiration and friendships there!
11. Who do I want to be when you grow up? Photographically? Tim Schooler, Fuzzy Duenkel, Kirk Voclain – the female versions of course! Personally? I would most like to be like a friend of mine – Elmo Kallner. I always say his mommy raised the nicest, most caring human being on the planet!
12. Things I still feel I need to learn: The technical side of shooting – I’m more of an intuitive shooter!
13. My guilty pleasures: I eat one square (ok, maybe two) of dark chocolate a day. I read somewhere dark chocolate was good for you and I’m sticking with that theory!!!!
14. How do I stay focused and or organized? That’s an easy one - I don’t! I think that creative side of me prevents it (and I’m sticking with that theory too!)
15. Weirdest thing in my car: A broom! I use it on shoots to clear cobwebs, dirt, and small creatures! My husband tells the seniors it’s my “ride” in case the car breaks down!
16. Reality show addiction: I love American Idol but I think it’s because I have a smidge more time to actually watch TV this time of year! I have a hard time with the crazy auditions portion but am addicted to the rest! I would love to be able to sing and admire anyone that can. I maintain that I ruined my daughter’s chance of carrying a tune because I sang to her as a baby and she probably thought that’s what real singing should sound like – eeekkkk! I also love America’s Next Top Model – not necessarily the drama but the photo shoots intrigue me.
17. The newest fashion craze that I LOVE or HATE: I have a love/hate relationship with the bigger, babydoll type tops and dresses. Love them – they are adorable and can hide a multitude of sins! Hate them because I have to make sure I don’t make someone look bigger than they are!
18. Country music and classic rock currently fill my ipod!
19. Your favorite beauty products? Bare Escentuals and Victoria’s Secret Lip Gloss!20. If I were a F*R*I*E*N*D who would I be and why? Probably Ross – I’m kinda clutzy and a little on the shy side.
21. My secret desire for 2008 – I recently lost a few LBS and want to lose 20 more. It’s a challenge I’m going to put up on my BLOG – hopefully if I have people keeping track of me, I’ll do it! That and photoshop – I’m not that great at photoshop! Of course, if I learn to liquefy, I can just do that to myself and not lose that 20 lbs!!!!
Prema Buck- Spotlight Photographer #1
March 6, 2008
{ T H E Q U E S T I O N S } My Name is Prema Buck and I live in : Temecula, California.
My Website: www.thepbstyle.com
The Blog: getthepbstyle.typepad.com
1. How long have you been n business? 3.5 years & shooting senior sessions? 1.5 years
2. My style is edgy, candid, and tells a story.
3. My drug of choice: Canon or Nikon? Nikon
4. My most embarrassing photographer moment: Oh, yeah..there’s a few, but the funniest is while on a senior session last spring (I think) as I lifted my camera up to photograph my client her face went white….I’m now alarmed and she said, “there is a bee on you!” Well that’s a horrible thing for me because I am totally afraid of them, even though, I have never been stung. So, I freaked out in the streets of Old Town Temecula. Everyone is is laughing at me as I am swinging my arms in the air with my camera around my next and taking off down the street without my client! (((sigh)) awful I know. I felt so bad about that, but she understood as she was afraid too!
5. Oddest thing you take on a shoot or have in your camera bag: hand sanitizer? doesn’t everyone?
6. One thing you cannot live without? My sweet kisses from my little girl!
7. What or who inspires you? Oh boy, let’s see. First of all prayer, passion and the desire to inspire, help others and grown in this biz! As far as my art, I’m inspired also my what I see in my daily life…I’m inspired by design, marketing and music videos!
FIVE things you have to take with you on a senior session:
- “Fabulosity” in all I do (ha,ha) / personality
- Cool pair of shoes
- A clean car
- Breathe freshener
- Hip songs on my ipod w/ a small docking station
8. Most visited website or blog: Jessica Claire! I love her stuff and I want her to do my family session.
9. Who do you want to be when you grow up? Me…only wiser and even more talented!
10. Things I still feel I need to learn: Photoshop and management of my time.
Like right now I need to finish my interview but I’m off to grab a Starbucks really quick! I’ll be right back:-)
11. My guilty pleasures: Starbucks almost everyday ((sigh))
12. How do you stay focused and or organized? Ha! Yeah right! Did you read above peeps?
13. Tell us about your reality show addiction: America Next Top Model and Kimora Lee Simmons…OMGosh she is something else!
14. What’s in your ipod? I like so many different types of music and artist! I do play a lot of Alicia Keyes right now and I LOVE Lupe Fiasco “Superstar” and Finger Eleven.
15. Your favorite beauty products? Burts Bees believe it or not!
16. Favorite designer? Oh boy, let’s see….I like Juicy Couture and L.A.M.B
17. Your secret desire for 2008: “[B]eing efficient is the key element to being successful” ………By [b]ecker My goal this year is to create a workflow that truly “flows”.
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