Insane Filmmaking & Photography

Stock Photo Pack – Coming Soon!

Monday, August 22, 2011 Posted in Freebies, News

The above images are a sample from my soon-to-come Stock Photography collection.

I’ve been studying the art in our society and I just don’t believe we have enough of it. While visiting a children’s hospital, I noticed there were toys for them to play with, but there was not any art; things like photos or paintings. The Children’s Play category of this collection will be full of high resolution images that can be used for flyers, posters, or anything child related that you see fit.

This won’t be the only category in this collection. Business, senior, community, part, graduation, and many more categories populate this amazing set.

Here’s the best news: It’s 100% FREE! The holiday season is right around the corner and what better way to start it off by giving the gift of art?

Information about this collection will be posted within one week prior to its release, so be sure to check back often for more information and freebies!

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2012 Seniors – Book Now!

Saturday, April 30, 2011 Posted in Promotions, Senior

Seniors, the time has come for you to leave high school and head to college. Your parents will cry and your friends will party – then cry. What will they do without you for four long years?

I know! They will keep the senior photos of you taken by Deranged Studios!

2012 Seniors book now through to September 1, 2011 and get 50% ($200) off your shoot!

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Shyla @ The Factory

Thursday, April 21, 2011 Posted in Individual

I was measuring the walls of my studio for new sets, when Shyla knocked on the door. Red hair and beautiful, she wanted some photographs right away, and so did I! The sun was almost gone and the storms were rolling in. We went outside The Factory in downtown Farmington, MO, where my studio is located, and took some shots.

This girl should model.

It was a blast and I cannot wait to go on the next shoot with her in a week.

Pictures coming soon!

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Experimental Studio Photography

Friday, April 15, 2011 Posted in Learning, Photography, Techniques

Studio photography is a major part of my business and my life as a photographer. I love it! I love on location shoots as well, especially when the weather is perfectly divided between rain and chilly weather. But, studio photography, as of late, has been talking to me in my dreams, telling me to EXPERIMENT! So, I have been.

I’m designing new lighting techniques that I will use for senior photos, family, commercial, and editorial photography. I just named a lot of different types, and I left out fashion. Why? Because I forgot to say fashion, that’s why!No, but seriously, fashion is the reason I had the idea to experiment with these new lighting techniques.

I don’t like the boring school portraits, the lame 3 point lighting and the horrible backgrounds. I like looking at the subject’s face, studying the contours of their structure, examining their smile. Then, I go from there. To be honest, when I look in year books from local school, some students are lit in a sort of good way and others are horrible. The reason for this is that the studio shooting those pictures set up their lights, and NEVER move them. Come on, you can’t light short people the same as tall, heavier people the same as slimmer, or lighter skinned people the same as darker, and vice versa. For this reason, students come out over and underexposed.

The same is true when it comes to fashion. A good photographer knows lighting, but a great photographer masters it. The difference between the two is that the great photographer can look at a subject and know their good/bad side, notice a long nose, and notice when the face is perfectly shaped for some beauty dish shots and a front page to your favorite magazine.

I am mastering lighting and while doing so, I am developing lighting styles according to the differences in shade of skin, weight, height, and etc.. I’m making magic.

To be a subject on one of these shoots (free!), use the CONTACT form above and use the subject “Experimental“. I cannot wait to hear from you!

*All subjects receive a copy of their shots in exchange for giving me their time and their faces. They will all be featured on the website, too!

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The Perfect Day

Monday, April 11, 2011 Posted in Personal

Hobby Shot

I’ve been really busy lately. I have some studio work, like painting and ordering new equipment, that I have to finish and I’ve been missing one of my favorite things in the world to do. READING! I love reading. As you can tell, Dean Koontz is my favorite author. Thrilling stuff, he writes (Yoda!).

Anyway, when I’m not taking photos of you beautiful people, I’m writing or reading. I’m working on my own novel and a screenplay, too, so I’m really busy with words all the time. Books do a lot for me. They allow me to relax, to take the day and put it into my pocket. I own the day. Regardless of what’s going on in the world around me, books take me to special places; worlds of unknown troubles and surprise endings. I own some other books of other genres, too. I own The Blair Handbook, various filmmaking books, photography books, other mystery and thriller books, a few horror books here and there. See, I told you, I’m a big bookworm!

Writing, on the other hand, let’s me become my characters and live other lives outside of mine. My life is good, don’t get me wrong, but being wrapped up in different characters for each story, brainstorming and coming up with ways to destroy or rebuild them, allows me to be someone else. Someone I wouldn’t normally be, obviously, but someone that I am interested in.

Then there’s photography. My camera is always close, either on my shoulder or the table next to me. Photos finish the picture for me. The picture of my life. It rounds me and I feel well rounded once I take photos. I get to take what I’m feeling and translate it to something visual. Beautiful or perceived ugliness, either way it’s art.

The perfect day for me is to wake up next to my beautiful wife on a cold rainy day, kiss my daughter to know they are safe, write some of my novel, then my screenplay, take 100 photos around my home and town, then roll up with a book on the couch and read it from cover to cover. I’ve had a few of these days and these are the days when I feel most creative.

When will the next day be?