Creative Eye Photography

{Brown Family Portraits}

Creative Eye Photography — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:59:50 +0000

Tower Grove Park has been an extremely popular place for me to shoot this year! Most of the sessions I have been doing lately have been children or family portraits which sometimes, can be a bit of a challenge when you have a large family or lots of young children involved. Thankfully, all of the ‘kids’ in the Brown family were adults and we could get through their session pretty quickly and without any children’s tantrums! LOL

On to the photos!

{ Nate + Jamie = Married! }

Creative Eye Photography — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:37:16 +0000

Nathan and Jamie were married a few months ago when we were having all of the storms and tornadoes. They told me that they got to take a few photos on their wedding day but, the weather didn’t cooperate very well so we did some wedding portraits of them in their wedding day attire!

Thanks for having me take your wedding portraits! Congrats on your wedding and I wish you both happiness starting your new life together!

Baby Sebastian {Portrait Session}

Creative Eye Photography — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:20:02 +0000

This little fella was born with a heart defect, so we had to re-schedule a couple different times so that we could get some photos of him without all the scars on his tiny little chest. Such a sweet little guy and it just breaks my heart when I know that little ones like him are suffering. Hopefully, after his next surgery (or two) he will be in tip-top shape. Here are some of my favorite images of little Sebastian.

This is my favorite!

Jasroop {Portrait Session}

Creative Eye Photography — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:46:12 +0000

YES, I am behind on posting recent work (I promise, I am getting better!) and have been wanting to share images from this session. Jasroop recently finished achieving her MBA and to celebrate, we did some fun photos of her at the City Garden.

Taking photos of her was incredibly easy…she always had a gorgeous smile on her face and LOOK AT HER HAIR! YES, it is real. NO, she has never cut it as it is against her religion. People kept asking her if they could touch it too. Lol. One of the grounds security guards there actually came up to her and asked if he could take a picture of her with his cell phone because he had never seen anyone with hair that long. (she did tell him no) Anyways, take a look at a few images from her session.

C & C’s Boudoir Session (Together!)

Creative Eye Photography — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:08:35 +0000

So, after my one-on-one sessions with Colleen and Catie, I did some shots of them together. I have done boudoir sessions for bachelorette parties (which are quite fun! contact me for more info) so I wanted to include some of the images of both of them together. Nothing sleazy, that’s not my style. However, how fun is it to sit around and laugh with your friends while you roll around on an uber-comfy king-sized bed listening to awful 80′s rock, hair-bands?! Well, that’s what we did! On to the pictures!

Catie’s Boudoir Session

Creative Eye Photography — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:56:22 +0000

If you saw the previous post (Colleen’s Boudoir Session) here are the photos from my session with my (again) friend, model and bridesmaid, Catie

Here are some of my favorites from the session. Also, I will be showing some additional photos from this session at an art show at the end of July.

Colleen’s Boudoir Session

Creative Eye Photography — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:34:19 +0000

Alright. I have been really wrapped up with work for the past month or two and have not had the time and energy to post updates here on the blog. Planning for a wedding, working and owning a business and having health issues take a serious toll on me. I am trying to get better, and now this summer, I will be having a full-time assistant! So be prepared to start seeing (gasp!) daily posts on the blog!

This particular post is of my good friend, model and bridesmaid, Colleen. I had a commissioned job to do boudoir portraits at Lumiere Casino and Hotel and when I was done working for the day, I had Colleen and Catie (you will see her post next) come down to the hotel suite and do some boudoir photos of both of them. On to the photos!

Marie & Greg – Engaged!

Creative Eye Photography — Fri, 20 May 2011 03:51:09 +0000

I know that I have really been slacking on blogging, but I have been REALLY, REALLY, REALLY swamped with work!I have several different sessions that I have been wanting to post, but I haven’t had the time. I am trying to catch up on my work, but until then, here is an engagement session from earlier this month.

I had the pleasure to meet with Marie and Greg at Tower Grove Park to photograph their engagement session. I think that we had to reschedule their session a couple times because of this crazy weather that we have been having.

It was very easy to take photos of these two….I mean look at them! Even in the casual and candid shots they both looked beautiful…makes my job pretty easy, right? I am looking forward to shooting their wedding in October.

Here are some of my favorite shots from their session.

Fauxtographers and Hobbyists, Oh My!

Creative Eye Photography — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 06:04:58 +0000

I have had several discussions with other photographers in the STL and Chicago area regarding these so-called ‘fauxtographers’ that run out to Best Buy and purchase a digital camera and decide the next day they are going to be a ‘photographer’. For a full-time photographer whose sole income is from photography, it hits us pretty hard when some moron goes out and buys a consumer DSLR, puts up a cheap website and then sets their pricing at next to nothing, or even worse, charging nothing at all.

I recently attended a bridal show that had 8 so-called photographers that I had never heard of in the St. Louis Metro area. After doing research on them, all were fairly new (within the past 6 months) and were offering wedding photography as low as $400 for an 8 hour day! I understand that everyone has to start somewhere, however, make it your hobby and not your profession. I, myself, have to pay insurance for my business and equipment, computer software, professional associations and membership, hosting for a real website (and not one of those free WIX sites….ugh) taxes and so on. I could continue to go on about how aggravating it is when I see all these fauxtogs popping up all over.

I attended college solely for photography and fine arts. I didn’t wake up one day and decide that photography may be something I would like to dabble in. I had a very young start when I began taking photographs as my Grandfather was a photographer. I began learning how to use a camera (manual NOT auto!) when I was 6 years old. By the time that I was 10 years old, I was developing my own photographs in my own darkroom. That was over 20-something years ago.

I could rant on and on about how aggravated I get over this issue, but, I will just leave you, the reader, with this. Visit this link to a great article from another photographer:

http://kissmyflash.tumblr.com/post/616036474/endangered

And here is one of my fave things to read…..this is a great blog: http://youarenotaphotographer.com/post/3715861955/photography-skilled-profession-or-minimum-wage-worthy

JUST BECAUSE YOU OWN A CAMERA DOES NOT MAKE YOU A PHOTOGRAPHER

Broadway Loves the Movies Performance Photos

Creative Eye Photography — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:05:53 +0000

On February 17th, I had the opportunity to take performance photos of the KTK Production, ‘Broadway Loves the Movies’ at Southampton Presbyterian Church. Below are some photos from each performance

*To the cast – If you are interested, I can provide all of the photos on a CD/DVD disc for a small charge. You can either pick it up or have it mailed to you (for an additional amount). Please contact me at Robin@CreativeEyeSTL.com and include your name, email address, postal address (if you wish to have it mailed to you). To give you an idea of the amount of coverage from the show, there are over 1100 images in total and are broke down as follows, per performance number;

Pre-Show – 15 images
One Night Only – 32 images
Gotta Get a Gimmick – 59 images
Li’l Bitty Pissant Country Place – 64 images
People Will Say We’re in Love – 37 images
Big Spender – 34 images
So Long Dearie – 23 images
Easy Street – 28 images
Time Warp – 62 images
Suddenly Seymour – 17 images
I Don’t Know How to Love Him – 13 images
The Phantom of the Opera – 50 images
Cell Block Tango – 72 images
Brotherhood of Man – 23 images
Bali Hai – 17 images
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid – 16 images
Brand New Day – 22 images
Put on a Happy Face – 31 images
Morning Glow – 22 images
It’s Your Wedding Day – 39 images
Holdin’ Out for a Hero – 38 images
Out Here on My Own – 9 images
Xanadu – 61 images
Part of Your World – 8 images
Let it Go – 55 images
If I Can’t Love Her – 7 images
Le Jazz Hot – 41 images
Together Again – 17 images
Omigod You Guys – 57 images
I Am What I Am – 31 images
9 to 5 – 37 images
If I Can’t Have You – 10 images
Jolly Holiday – 12 images
Freak Flag – 38 images
Start of Something New – 6 images
Lullaby of Broadway – 25 images