Spouses of Deployed Service Members Group Photography Session

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The winner of this session will not be one individual person but the entire group of spouses of deployed service members you are associated with.  This will take some team work.  Share in your group so that each person can participate and help win.

Rules:
*  Share my page and have your friends "Like" my page.
*  Make sure that you friends post on my wall letting me know who they are representing!
*  No negativity towards other posts.
*  This is for spouses of deployed service members ONLY.


This is an example of how this works:
I am affiliated with 2/6.  I encourage my friends to "Like" AA Scott Photography's Facebook page.  When they like it they write on the wall letting me know who they are representing.  For example "New like from 2/6!".  You can have other people outside of your group also represent your group (your friends, family etc.).  The session will be for spouses of deployed service members of the group that wins.  While our guys are deployed we meet at least once a month.  While they were training I set up and took portraits for Father's Day with the permission of the FRO.  (Samples below)

What you win:

I will set up at a group get together and photograph anyone who is interested in having their portrait taken.  I will have short forms so that I can keep track of everyone I photograph.  Each form will also have a spot for your spouse's address- this is so that the portraits can be shared with them.  If children are photographed the portraits will all be combined in a composite portrait if a group photo is not taken.  I will ship each service member a portrait from our session!  The images will also be uploaded in high resolution to my Facebook page and available for download.  I do ask for a small donation per family.  The donations go to providing portraits to our deployed service members.

The winner will be announced on July 15, 2011! 

You will have up to two months to complete the session! 

Portrait or Homecoming Session Nomination

There are a ton of reasons someone may or may not be able to have quality portraits done.  If you know someone that deserves beautiful quality portraits or their loved one is about to come home from a deployment nominate them for a FREE photography session!  List the person on my photography page or in the comments to this post with why you think they deserve the session and which one you are nominating them for!  Please list an e-mail address so I can contact notify the winner!  I will repost all of the comments from my FB page on the comments here to keep track of them.

Rules:

1.  You may only nominate one person.
2.  You must "Like" my page to enter. 
3.  Please refrain from any negative comments towards other people who have entered.


I will choose the winner using a random selection tool online.  The winner will be selected on July 15 by e-mail and will have 48 hours to respond or another will be picked.

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was a photographer most notable for her works during the depression era.  Her images are very powerful and show the plight of the American people.  Her most notable image from this period is titled "Migrant Mother" and is an image of a destitute woman with her children huddled near her.  While the story behind the photograph my be embellished the tone certainly wasn't.  The photograph is the most iconic image of the Great Depression.  (The woman featured in the photo was also very unhappy over its use).  Her other photographs through California's tent cities and Hoovervilles speak to you.  You can feel the anguish the subjects are feeling.  The children have dirty faces, the parents are overworked and underpaid and still cannot provide for their families.  It is SEEING John Steinbeck's Grapes Of Wrath in black and white for yourself.

Some pretty awesome facts about Lange- she co-founded Aperature magazine!  One of the TOP photography magazines.  She also was invited by Ansel Adams to be a faculty member of the California School of Fine Arts (two others on my list joined her there- Cunningham and White).

One of the most awesome things about her Great Depression era photographs is they were taken with a 4x5 Graflex camera VERY similar to the one by my logo that belonged to my Grandfather that my Grandma gave me for my 21st birthday!!

This is my imitation image.  The subject is my son James.  He is not actually dirty- this is a texture that was added in post processing.  I added film grain for an added touch.  Although this does not have the feel of photo journalism it still speaks to me much the same way Lange's images do.  I am very glad that it was not taken under the same circumstance.

Imitation- The Most Sincere Form of Flattery

I am starting a project called Imitation... I plan on creating photographs in the likeness of the style of some of my favorite photographers.  These photographers have not only made an impact on my life but the lives of many others as well.  The images will not necessarily be recreations of their images.  My intention is to have the same feel as the photographer I am imitating.  I work a lot with children so some of the portraits may actually use models who are much younger than the subjects in the photographs I am basing my work off of.  I am absolutely not making a joke out of the original works.  I want to be very clear some of the images are very powerful and I am by no means taking the statement the image makes lightly.

Some of the photographers I intend to imitate are:
Dorthea Lange
Ansel Adams
Harold Edgerton
Lewis Hine
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Imogen Cunningham
Elliot Erwitt
George Hurrell
Annie Leibovitz
Anne Geddes
Robert Mapplethorpe (Still life)
Edward Weston

This seems to be a pretty complete list.  I am missing one Western photographer and as soon as I can remember his name I will add him to the list.  There are three women on this list and each of them brings a different tone to the mix.  There is a little bit of everything from classical Adams to the often jarring images produced by Mapplethorpe- which is why I am sticking to his still life images. 

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