You Are Iconic
Feb 18
by LenzPhotography in Behind the Scenes, Photo, Travel 0 comments tags: alexandra way, behind the scenes, city, cold, continuous light, gateway arch, lenz photography, philip lenz, photo, self portrait, st louis, travel, urban, yn-300, yongnuo

Travel – Self Portrait Under the Gateway Arch, St. Louis

Q.) What happens when a group of photographers band together and travel all over the United States for a month? A.) You get some pretty sweet self-portraits in some pretty Iconic places!   Big shout out to TH Peterson Photography for helping us with this shot in St. Louis. Behind the Photo As we traveled through St. Louis, we knew we had to get a quick shot of the Gateway Arch, but “quick” is never the case when you’re on the road. Needless to say, there is currently a lot of construction going on in downtown St. Louis and that definitely didn’t help us stay on schedule. Tommy, Alexandra, and I probably drove around St. Louis — not to mention Illinois… Yeah… we ended up taking a few left turns at Albuquerque — However, we were finally able to find a spot to park near the Arch. That wasn’t the end of our struggle, though. Let’s just say St. Louis was FREAKIN COLD (for lack of a better word). If you look closely, you can see some ice and snow on the ground as well as our lips getting froze together like a scene from “Dumb and Dumber”. Either way, […]
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Feb 07
by LenzPhotography in Behind the Scenes, Photo, Travel 0 comments tags: announcement, behind the scenes, exclusive release, kansas, photo, plow, portrait, rugged, scranton, snow, strobist, terry piper, topeka, travel

Strobist Snow Portraits in a Scranton, Kansas blizzard.

The Details Since we’ve been in Kansas, we’ve haven’t had a lot of free time to share any of our progress via our blog or social media outlets, but the requests to see some photos keep rolling in, nonetheless! So, without further adieu, here are a few strobist snow portraits we took in Scranton — a small town near Topeka, Kansas with a few Alienbee B800s, Vagabond minis, a Paul C Buff cyber commander, Canon 5D Mkiii, 70-200 f2.8 L, 24x36in softbox, and a standard 7in cone. (Not to mention a few plastic, grocery store bags draped over our lights to shield them from the snow!) Enjoy! The Full Story So while in Kansas working with T.H. Peterson Photography, we got about 10-12 inches of snow overnight with very little notice. Of course being a group of photographers, we all wanted to do a portrait of someone in the snow! But the question was, how in the world were we supposed to drive anywhere or have anyone get to us? The roads were completely covered and the snow was still coming down. A little bit of snow wasn’t going to stop us from taking a snow portrait of someone, though. […]
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Nov 26
by LenzPhotography in Entertainment, Musician, Photo 3 comments tags: entertainment, joey christian, musician, nashville, photo, Portfolio, ripley

Which image of Ripley is your favorite?

We need your input! Check out the 2 images of Ripley below and let us know which is your favorite! Both images are very different; one is more of a close up, horizontal shot while the other is a full body, vertical shot. When you’ve made a decision, comment the number of your favorite image below and tell us why you prefer it from an artistic standpoint. Thanks for viewing!
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Oct 21
by LenzPhotography in Behind the Scenes, Photo, Video 1 comments tags: atlanta, behind the photographs, behind the scenes, exclusive release, photo, samoa, samoan, Video

Peni – A Tribute to Samoa

Capturing Culture On Location Take a look at our session with Peni, a Samoan native, whom we were privileged enough to meet, learn about his culture, and tell his story through photography. The Culture: In the photo above, you see Peni holding the “mea tau”. The mea tau are machete-like weapons used for various reasons, notably for carrying decapitated heads by the hooked end of the blade. You may also notice the traditional Samoan skirt which goes by the name of “lava-lava”. The Culture: In this photo, you see that we were lucky enough to witness and photograph the traditional Samoan Fire Knife Dance in person! Here you also see another lava-lava, accompanied by dried banana leaves tied around the neck and shins. The banana leaves are used in many parts of the Samoan culture from clothing to cooking. Behind the Photographs – Video Loose Translation: I had a great time taking the photographs. I am excited, because the photos are going to look amazing. I have only known you all for a short time, but hopefully we can meet up again in the future. It has been a great experience. We had an amazing time working with Peni. He […]
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Jul 18
by LenzPhotography in Behind the Scenes, Entertainment, Photo, Video 1 comments tags: behind the scenes, drum set, entertainment, lenz photography, photo, tips, Video, water

Behind the Scenes – Drum Set at Sunset

The Down & Dirty This location, over 2 years ago, was where we took one of our first award winning photographs that would unknowingly be 1 of only 15 photos — out of nearly 30,000 photos worldwide — to be displayed at the Photoshop & You event in San Francisco, California. Now, not to take anything away from our first photo because we were honored to have our work displayed by Adobe, but it has been over 2 years now and we knew that we had to give the same concept another run just to see what we could do to push it over the top. Needless to say, the results were unparalleled. Our Setup Here at Lenz Photography, we’re always experimenting with new lighting and other techniques to push our sessions to the next level to keep things interesting on a creative level. As you can see in the behind the scenes video above, we used a 3 light setup for these shots — (1) Main Light – Minimal diffusion, High above the subject, Angled slightly downward to fill in the drum set and create some shadows under the eyebrows, nose, and chin for contrast and depth. (1) Fill […]
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