The Steve Z Photography Blog

Here’s to wrapping up a fantabulous year!  My last shot of the year is of a tall stiff drink of my Christmas present – a bottle of Basil Hayden’s whiskey.  Cheers to an amazing 2009!

In a perfect world all my clients will come into the cozy studio, hang out on the couches, and enjoy a beverage while flipping through my selection of albums.  Web images are clearly no substitue for looking and touching the real thing.  However, I’m providing an online guide for my out of town clients, to help sort through the album selection process.

For 2009, I will be offering 4 different types of photo albums.  My intent is surely not to make things complicated; I just can’t limit my choices, because they are all so cool!  Well that and some offer price point savings that will appreciated by some.   Each album or book offers different covers, features, page styles, and price points.

Click on the ” Read more” to the right to view all the detailed pictures and descriptions.  Thanks!  Steve Z . . . . . (more…)

The difficult part about this time of year is it’s too easy to tell when I’m behind on my blogging!  In the summer I can get away with it . . . so lets just pretend it’s warm and sunny with pretty fall colors, and not negative 5 billion, OK?

About a month ago my girlfriend was house sitting for her parents.  Since all of their children are grown up and out of the house, the plethora of fallen leaves in their backyard were untouched.  When I saw the beautiful back yard full of leaves, I knew that I needed to do an impromptu shoot. I had seen pictures of my friend Issac’s boy on the old camera phone during some of our mountain bike adventures, and knew that he would be just the candidate!

I did quite a bit of racking and surprised Isaac, Erin and Logan with a gigantic pile of leaves. In fact, I was a bit over-zealous.  I thought that I remembered Logan to be 4 years old . . .  WRONG!   As it turns out he’s two and change, and the leaf pile was taller than he was!  I think in this next shot he look like a little stuffed animal, almost too cute to be real!

Another reason that the yard is such an epic location, they have an old car buried in the trees.  I’m for sure going to have to do another shoot with it in the future.

Christmas card photo!  Oh shoot, did I ruin the surprise?

For the record, I also predict young Logan will grow to be an awesome mountain biker, just like his dad. Never hurts to plant the seed early on! Check out Logan’s 2 wheeler!  Pure Boulder child, 300 dollar German wood bike!

At this point in time, I’m really starting to wonder if Logan isn’t some sort of reincarnated movie star.  How does he know to work the camera like that?

“Hello, North Face?  Yes, this is Steve Z, world famous child modeling agent.  I have a boy here who you have to check out . . . ”

Last weekend I was lucky enough to escape the snow in Boulder for a destination wedding at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida.  Rebecca, Todd and I first met over the holidays last year when we shot their engagement photos.  That photo shoot was a nice start, but it was nothing compared to the epic-ness of their wedding day!  Check out the venue, First Class all the way!

We started out the day with a generous helping of creative detail shots, because we all know how much I love those! But after an hour of arranging inanimate objects it was on to people, people, people! We shot a few bridal portraits then to the First Site. The Ceremony was set to go down at sunset, so we needed to have the couple see each other earlier in the day so we could shoot some fun portraits while there was still available light.

After the happy couple met and exchanged some smoochie boochies, it was on to my favorite part of the day, creative portraits with the couple. I usually try to mix up some traditional shots with some wacky ones . . . I like to show the unique ones on the blog!

This was my first wedding with my all new Nikon camera gear. It performed admirably . . . whew! I think my favorite new lens is the 14-24 zoom. I was able to take some cool wide shots. Like the next four for example.

The ceremony and reception sites were pretty over the top. The ceremony was right at sunset on a lawn that rolls right up to the beach and the Atlantic Ocean. The reception was held in this enormous dome of a room called The Circle Room.

It was so hard deciding which images to pick to show on the blog. I wound up showing a lot of the scenic and composed photos because I thought they were visually striking. But don’t let that fool ya, there were more touching moments captured than you can shake a stick at!

To see even more pictures from this awesome event, click on the title slide below and watch a 5 minute slideshow. To view the slide show on its own page, CLICK HERE.

Slideshow music used by permission of local Boulder rock heros MENISKUS. Enjoy!