Josh Smith Photography

Paperdolls

josh — Sat, 19 May 2012 16:19:48 +0000

This is a wonderful cardboard fashion shoot, I wish I knew when I had originally saved the link… by now perhaps you’ve already seen it?

Amy

josh — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:02:13 +0000

Amy was foolish enough to show to the same party as me when I had a camera and crushed velvet backdrop: mwahahahahahahaha! she was a good sport about being shanghaied into the portrait project: thanks Amy. Also it’s important that you all call your mothers and tell them you love them!

Mary

josh — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:34:10 +0000

A jump forward in time: Mary’s portrait is at the head of a group that I took this year (it’s amazing) during a trip down to Denver for my nephew’s baptism.

Adelaide

josh — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:14:41 +0000

Adelaide is the youngest of my first (albeit brief) roommate in college. Sometimes it’s startling to realize that we’ve all come so far that not too long from now we’ll be sending our own children off to the places we all met. My own is already nearly 8 and I find myself more and more often returning to old photographs to find record of this little person that used to be is continually transformed in front of me. To be sudden confronted with the changes of year or more all at once really emphasizes the incremental changes at home that we don’t always notice at the time…

Leanne

josh — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:50:13 +0000

Leanne is the new president of a local consulting firm in Spokane that works to connect smaller local businesses with national partners. We worked on headshots back in Feburary.

Ida

josh — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:56:16 +0000

Ida was a pretty challenging portrait. She is extremely camera shy as well as very kinetic. I attempted a portrait when I was in Portland but I was very unhappy with how I Did so when she was in town this fall to visit we tried again. I am very grateful for her willingness to sit for me a second time and I hope that even for someone who “hates every picture of themselves ever” that she is happy with the result. I think it was worth the wait.

New Project!

josh — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:42:59 +0000

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Last week I received in the mail one Intel Core duo Mac Mini (circa 2006 or so). Over the next 9 weeks I will be transforming it into a working photobooth. Since I am not what one would call “handy with tools” I sat down with my dad over the weekend and roughly sketched out what I needed it to do:

provide access to the front and back of the enclosure,
provide keyboard space to work with the photobooth on site,
switch from a standard enclosed photobooth to a wide flexible space photobooth (in it’s premiere incarnation I will set it up to use a flexible shooting space rather than having a photobooth but I wanted that to be an option),
take n number of photos in sequence with a y interval of seconds between shots every time a button is pushed,
use either built in florescent lighting or an optionally attached strobe/umbrella set up, and
finally: look classy.

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So I was pretty excited when I got back today these rough sketches that transformed my concept into something much more tangible. I’ll be posting the project progress here as I make it and eventually I’ll probably gather everything up into a single How-To post once the process is complete: Excitement abounds!

In realated news starting this summer I will begin offering a photobooth as an added service to event photography!

Dylan

josh — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:12:54 +0000

Dylan’s portrait is from his senior photo session that we did in downtown Spokane. We wandered around the ever popular photography alley on the west side of the downtown area taking photos of him and a few of his folks at the same time.

Vantography

josh — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:59:14 +0000

I an Ruhter has converted a van into camera in which he does wet plate photography. The images are stunning and the concept is just amazing. I have a hard time saying anything more than just “Wow!” More images here

SILVER & LIGHT from Ian Ruhter on Vimeo.

Mary

josh — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:51:05 +0000

Mary is Mike’s wife and mother to a senior whose portraits I was working on last fall.