Video Blog #2 Enjoy!!

CHawley Video Blog #2 from Chris Hawley on Vimeo.





~Chris

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So I have been very busy. I enjoy it though. I think it's fun taking peoples pictures and capturing a feeling inside them that they never have seen possible. The fun thing is when people don't want their picture taken. It's just awesome. I tell everyone that I choose them for a reason. I actually like taking pictures of people that don't like their picture taken more so than people who do. It gives a more real feel. I know a few actors and it's really hard to get a certain angle or shot with them, because most of them know their good side. Know their faces. So, they don't give me the freedom I need or the trust that is needed to create a great shot.

I have always been a kind of person to push people. I am usually the guy that says a joke and no one laughs, except myself. I have always been ok with that. That lack of limitation is great for my photography. i like bringing out a feeling in people that they didn't think I could capture. Yet, a lot of people because of my persistance begin to trust me. I have a lot of great "models" lined up for some great shots. It's really all about chemistry with who I am shooting and myself. So in that I usually choose people I can talk to, or who are fun and energetic. Another reason why I don't often choose actors.

"No" is a word I hear a lot. Not for shoots. a lot of people want their picture taken. Just for things that I want done. If you want to work for me be prepared for what I will ask you to do. Nudity is fine, but it's not my main directive. I never want a picture of mine to have nudity for the sake of nudity. Tell me your biggest fear, let me know who you are. This is a business, but this is also my art. My camera is my brush, people and light are my paint, and my head contains the canvass in which I put both of those things on.

If you want to work with me. Trust me. That is all ;)

Hope you enjoy my photos, stay tuned for more stuff!

~Chris

The past two days...wow oh wow.

Man the past two days have been tiring but just awesome.

Thursday started off with just a bunch of clothes washing and basic housing non sense. Cleaning moving other kind of jazz. It was all pretty boring until way later when my main my Bryan came over. We had discussed a shoot a couple weeks before. I wanted him to show his tattoo I knew that much. When the shoot first started in my head he was going to just have his shirt off. AS it went on I realized Bryan has been a drummer a long time. He has such a passion and drive for it...even so that I think even if someone were to take all of his clothes he'd give every piece up first before any of his kit was taken. Even more so I think Bryan would trade anything of his to keep his kit.

Even the clothes off of his back...

So that is exactly what I based the shoot off of...

So we went through that shoot and my fav one was this...

That I figured really capture what I was going for...don't take that snare! You don't want to know what will happen to you. So after we finished the shoot and Bryan put his clothes back on we wanted to do a couple of basic shots...clothed of course...so we were going through them and I didn't really feel a shot until he put on the hat. I thought it was great. I made him play with the bill for a while and we came out with this...

So I thought that, that day was not wasted. Solid photos from that shoot. 

Friday was filled with waking up. Making lunch and working hard to leave on time. Then going to work at 2. When I got off at 10 it kicked off with a shoot. Until 1am. The model was a friend of mine named Wendy. My next shoot was kind of a something you want to touch but not really shoot. Her body lures you in but something about her face makes you feel like there is some trickery a foot. Followed by confidence that she knows she has you...she does people...she does.

and I came out with this shot...

That was deff my favorite. We had a few other shots we went through some not as raunchy...a few I really enjoyed but this one stuck with me the most...this one was probably one of my favs as well:

This one was deff more aggressive. I shyed from it because of that. Not really any invitation at all but deff seductive. All and all I feel like i did really well with these shots. They came out exactly how I wanted. More are coming so definitely stayed tuned. Again, if you want to pose for me or want to know my rates email me at Chris@chawleyphoto.com

~Chris

Video Blog

Chawleyphoto Video Blog from Chris Hawley on Vimeo.





Just a quick note when I said 25,00 i ment like 2,500 lol....Also not all the shoots are for sure yet. Still some are up in the air.


Thanks for watching!



Here is a shot from the shoot!

~Chris

Roof climbing and sleep diving.

I tried to rhyme the title and it didn't work at all. anywho last week I had yet another shoot! It was with one of my fav pals Kent Jose.

Kent is working on being an actor as well, but also likes an array of music. Long walks on the beach and so on. Ladies contact me for his info.

We walked around shooting and it was awesome every idea I threw at him he dove head first into. (sometimes literally). It was really fun. WE were fighting the sun all day, I need to start working out of my studio more. We got some great shots. Mostly headshots. Yet, I did manage to have him pose for some portraits I wanted to do. One we tried for maybe 20 minutes and it just didn't work. So while Kent was bored chilling on the roof I took a picture.

A little post work but mainly done in camera.

than lastly I had an idea (because Kent is such a ladies man) to have him running out of a house after getting down with yet another mom. Super awesome. Kent has a very like timid disposition at times. SO I used that combined it with the awkward character and we came out with this shot.

That's everything! Thanks for reading! I have another shoot this Saturday, scouting this week and editing. Fun Times, I am learning some high pass stuff right now just dabbling a little more in post everyday. Thanks for reading!

~Chris

Another day another shoot....again....

I have updated my site just a bit. There were some problems with the way it was coming up on some browsers so I adjusted that as well as just adjusting the front page to capture more of my style a tad.

I wish I had the skill to do amazing landscape photography. Alas I ain't that good, i'll save the landscapes I am proud of for my flickr.

Anywho, today was Chaz Aherns headshots.

This guy is deff a cool guy, we were going for a certain look today. Or should I say looks.

FYI for those of you who want tons of looks in a short time with a photographer just so you know. Jeans go a long way.

Anywho we were walking around doing shots changing clothes and while walking to our last spot I plotted out a shot i really wanted to take. It would involve me looking like an idiot and climbing on top of a fence.

I figured I already have the idiot look down so why not the fence. so I did.

I took a few, thank goodness for decent auto focus cause I have to hold myself up with one of my arms while the other one did adjustments as well as taking the darned photo. It came out pretty cool I switched it with another photo I had on the front page now my front page is pretty much littered with portraits.

My book is coming along haven't taken to many photos but deff got a lot of cool people lined up in the coming months.


Anywho here is the said photo:

Also I usually post something that isn't on my site so here is another one from that same shoot today:

GO BLUE!!!

Until next time!

~Chris

Another shoot for my book.

So I did another shoot for my book which is entitled as of right now. "The Things We Do"....I don't know how I feel about the titled yet. For right now I will just call it that so that way I have something to call it.

I have a friend by the name of Jeff Dix. Great guy. Knows a ton about music and is currently working on a screenplay called *censored* which is about *censored* so it's going to be pretty awesome. He has got a good grasp on storytelling from what I can gather we go out for drinks and talk it over. He is like the modern day Homer.

So I have gone to his house a handful of times and he has a storyboard where he lays out his scenes for his movie. It caught my eye one day and I decided to put him (and it) in my book.

I was deciding between two photos. One which I will put up here. The other is the one that will go in my book. I might be putting it on the site soon and make a separate section for photos from my book.


So here is the photo I decided against.

I like the photo a lot but a few things bug me that I couldn't let go.

First the beaming of my second strobe from the left was rough and awkward I could always photoshop that out but the big thing that changed it is...

Up to this point this is one of the first vertical photos I have taken that I have liked. My whole book right not is horizontal. Most of the books I own (photo-books) are one side. Either horizontal or vertical. I know I will eventually have to mix it up but for right now this photo didn't scream out to me enough to keep it. So I edited it roughly. Put it up here. And voila! Here we are...

More photos coming soon I have some interesting shoots set up. 

More later!

~Chris