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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a college approached me about refreshing their wall with new portraits in their Admissions building, I came up with a number of different concepts. They said I could go in any direction, there were no rules. (That fact alone was pretty exciting, to say the least!)<\/p>\n
The thing is, I always have these random ideas cooking in my head, but if I’m being completely honest with you, I don’t act on them. I get caught up in my weddings and headshot client business, so I haven’t made time for personal projects. Besides that, most of my ideas take a lot of set up, a huge studio, investment, patience from the subject, and, just a lot of energy and time in general. (I’m good at making excuses, aren’t I?)<\/p>\n
Anyway, I always see traditional beauty\/landscape shots of a campus in Admissions buildings across the country, I wanted to do the exact opposite of that.\u00a0My goal with this concept was to show how important the students are: make them look like rockstars. Plus, I wanted movement: the idea of physically going forward with their talent or academic discipline and the college appreciating that by giving them a platform to explore. Most of all, I didn’t want to use Photoshop or graphics. Every single shot is done in camera, nothing created in Photoshop. Students today have seen everything, so I needed something organic but also cool.<\/p>\n
Here’s what I came up with…<\/p>\n
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When a college approached me about refreshing their wall with new portraits in their Admissions building, I came up with a number of different concepts. They said I could go in any direction, there were no rules. (That fact alone was pretty exciting, to say the least!) The thing is, I always have these random ideas cooking in my head, but if I’m being completely honest with you, I don’t act on them. I get caught up in my weddings and headshot client business, so I haven’t made time for personal projects. Besides that, most of my ideas take a lot of set up, a huge studio, investment, patience from the subject, and, just a lot of energy and time in general. (I’m good at making excuses, aren’t I?) Anyway, I always see traditional beauty\/landscape shots of a campus in Admissions buildings across the country, I wanted to do the exact opposite of that.\u00a0My goal with this concept was to show how important the students are: make them look like rockstars. Plus, I wanted movement: the idea of physically going forward with their talent or academic discipline and the college appreciating that by giving them a platform to explore. Most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,4],"tags":[370,16,105],"class_list":["post-12495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-work","category-faces","tag-commercial","tag-portraits","tag-studio-sessions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12507,"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions\/12507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erincoveycreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}