University of Oregon: Baseball
January ended up being a surprisingly busy month and I can’t really be too heartbroken about not being able to update my blog. A few weeks ago I worked with the University of Oregon on the upcoming promotional materials for the Baseball program (as well as Track and Softball but those will be left for [...]
Before-and-After Sportrait: UO Tennis
Monday I gave you another preview of the photo I created for the University of Oregon’s Women’s Tennis poster and Wednesday I posted how the composite was built. Today, I thought I’d show a little before and after of one of the individual portraits making up this composite. Like I mentioned last week in the [...]
Step-by-Step Composite: UO Tennis
This is definitely not going to be as extensive as the tutorial from last week. A lot of this is just repeating steps but I still want to give you an idea of how this composite was built. This photo ended up being a lot more complex because the cutouts were super difficult. My initial [...]
UO Women’s Tennis
As mentioned last week, when I showed the photo I created for the University of Oregon Acrobatics and Tumbling team, this week is going to be dedicated to the image that I created for the University of Oregon’s Women’s Tennis Poster (if you didn’t see the Acro and Tumbling Photo click here for just the [...]
Step-by-Step Composite: UO Acrobatics
As promised, I’ve put together a step by step image guide to show how the final image came to be. As I mentioned in my previous blog post about this project, I was pretty much given complete creative freedom. So, this is the concept that fit best in my mind with the photos we had [...]
UO Acrobatics and Tumbling
I was commissioned by the University of Oregon’s Athletic Department to shoot the poster for their Acrobatics and Tumbling team for the upcoming season. Sometimes it’s difficult going into a project with no clear instruction of exactly what they want you to photograph. The only request was that I make the girls look badass (literally [...]
File Managment and Organization
One of the most difficult parts of photography is figuring out the best way to store your photographs. I’ve adapted a technique that is a combination of several different variations that I’ve seen from other photographers that I’ve worked with. I no longer have any issue finding any of my work and stay completely organized. [...]
Jazmyn
Here are some recent photos I took during a test shoot with a model from Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited. As I’ve mentioned before on the blog, it’s getting to be that time of year where it’s really difficult to schedule anything due to weather. This shoot probably took over a month to sort our her [...]
Tennis: Megan
Now that the weather has started to change in the Pacific Northwest I’ve been trying to take advantage of as many not rainy days as possible. In all honesty, I’m more than happy to shoot on a cloudy day because it provides a perfect backdrop for some of my more edgy photographs. The biggest problem [...]
Social Media and Website Upgrades
This is actually a blog post I’ve been working on for some time. There are a lot of great websites that have been around for a while but there are newcomers that are positioning themselves off of the others flaws. I definitely suggest you all start checking out 500px and Google+ because the one thing [...]
80 Percent Mental
Concept: It’s often said sports are 80 Percent Mental (I think the exact percentage fluctuates) and I always felt like that would be an interesting photo project. The idea is to capture various athletes competing against themselves and depict the mental battles each and every athlete deals with. Initially, I didn’t plan on publishing any [...]
Daniel
Not too much to say today just a bunch of photos from a shoot I did about a month ago. The weather has definitely started to change up here so now I have to start to rethink how go about shooting for the next couple of months. It always seems that when you get something [...]
Logo Redesign
A little over a month ago I shared with you all my plans for a complete brand redesign (If you didn’t get a chance you can check out my Branding blog post). I wanted to go into a little more detail on why I decided to update my logo and really how important it is [...]
Sports Photography… Harder Than it Looks!
Before I get into the post I want to say that going in I already knew it was going to be hard but it’s even harder than that! A few weeks ago I mentioned that I had the opportunity to go and shoot the Seahawks final preseason game vs the Oakland Raiders but didn’t really [...]
Shoot More Often
One thing you’ll hear over and over again is shoot as often as you can. I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the best at this and usually wait till I have a concrete concept and a model/athlete lined up. But, you don’t have to always be shooting the exact same thing over and [...]
Basketball Sportscape
If you haven’t had the opportunity to check out the main website for Zach Ancell Photography, I would recommend you do so. I spent this weekend finishing up on some of the branding that I mentioned in a post last week. For a while, I’ve wanted to redo the website and rework all of my [...]
Branding
In my down time over the past few weeks (which essentially means after midnight), I’ve been working on re-branding myself. I’m looking to revamp pretty much everything. I think the only thing that won’t get an overhaul at the moment is the blog (probably just some minor color changes here and there). The main portfolio [...]
Madison
I apologize for taking so much time in between posts. The past month was spent moving to a new apartment and you never realize how much work it is until you are in the thick of things. I didn’t find the time to take many photographs (let along blog) but now that I’m all settled [...]
Michael
One of the best relationships I’ve cultivated in Portland is with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited modeling agency. A huge problem being a portrait photographer over being a still life or a landscape photographer is finding subjects to capture. That’s one thing I love about landscape photography. I love being able to scout a location online [...]
Kapalua Sunset
I apologize for not getting this image up last week. I was a little busy towards the end of the week and didn’t have a chance to write something up about it. However, if you are a fan on my Facebook Fan Page (shameless plug) you’ve already had an opportunity to see this photo. Sadly, [...]
Hawaiian Sunset
Alright, I know this has taken way longer than I expected to get posted. If you didn’t have a chance to read the blog on Monday I quickly mentioned a few reasons why it took me so long. So once again, I’m sorry for taking so long (and if you really want to know the [...]
Inspiration
I apologize for the long gap in posts. As I mentioned in my last post a few weeks ago I was getting ready to head off to Maui for a couple of days. Well, on the way back I had some travel nightmares and then ended up getting sick right when I got home. So, [...]
Interview
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to put together a image breakdown this week. I’m off to Maui tomorrow morning so I’ve been getting ready for the trip and trying to do as much research as possible. I have plans to do a lot of landscape work while I’m there and also try to do some lifestyle [...]
onOne Perfect Layers
I don’t often spend my time reviewing products but I guess this isn’t really a review. My sponsor, onOne Software, just released a new program that I think is going to be a huge game changer for anyone who uses Adobe Lightroom. One of the big problems with Lightroom is the inability to use layers. [...]