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Welcome to my Blog!

Hello! I'm Ben and this is a picture of me pretending to be cool.

Take a look around and if you like what you see I'd love to create your next portrait :)

Give me a call and we'll set up your free portrait consultation!

(360) 628-8815

Stats:

Height: 6'0

Age: 29 (I feel about 22 though)

Super Powers: Over 10 years worth of mad Photoshop skillz.

The ability to tell the same 3 jokes over and over and still think they're just as funny as the first time I heard them.

Likes: My wife and 2 daughters, location portraits, german pretzels.

Dislikes: dust on my sensor, seafood, stubbing my toe, kidney stones, cancer.

Weapon of Choice: Canon L 70-200mm 2.8

Affiliations: PPA, PPW, PCPPA

2010 Baby & Child Portrait Contest

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It’s that time of year again! The 2010 Baby & Child Portrait Contest has begun.

Categories for this year’s contest include: Color, Black & White/Sepia, Special Needs, and Humorous. The online contest will consist of four different qualifying rounds and one final round. Each round will last for one month.

First, Second, and Third places, as well as two Honorable Mentions, will be announced for each category!

Cash prizes for these winners include:

$5,000 for Grand Prize

$2,000 for First

$1,000 for Second

$750 for Third

$500 for each Honorable Mention.

All cash prizes will be given to the families of the winning portraits.

  • All portraits taken by the Leavitt Photo Studio January 1- June 21, 2010 are eligible for entry into the 2010 Baby & Child Contest.
  • Participants may post one image per child from each photography session.
  • Children age 12 and under can be entered into the contest.

Don’t delay, call to book your child’s portrait session today! (360) 628-8815

Print Competition Prep

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Well, it’s that time of year again. Print competition entries will be due soon for the PPA International print competition and I don’t know what I’m going to submit yet. If you have a cool idea for a portrait you’d like to do with me just send me an e-mail and I might just take you up on it :)

For those of you who care, these are the elements the judges are supposed to consider when judging the prints:

  • Impact
  • Creativity
  • Technical excellence
  • Composition
  • Lighting
  • Style
  • Print Presentation
  • Center of Interest
  • Subject Matter
  • Color Balance
  • Technique
  • Story Telling

If I do really well, my prints will be on display in a traveling gallery and you’ll hear about it on the blog :)

If I do badly… it’ll be a sad sad day and heads will roll. jk

Wish me luck!

Click the following link for a more in-depth explanation of the 12 Elements of a Merit Image.

Photography and Architecture

I don’t know what’s more impressive, the fact that Alex Roman created such a masterpiece, or the fact that he did it entirely using CGI.
Check out the amazingly detailed HD version here.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Thanks for the link Jeff!

Cover Girl

I had the honor of shooting the artwork for L.A. Wolfe’s debut album which is scheduled to “drop”  in January. L.A. Wolfe (aka Laura Wolfe) was great to work with.

Her album is recorded and produced by Jeremy Miller, owner of “Jeremy Miller Presents” in Olympia. (360) 456-3517

We jammed out to “She Wolf” on her iPhone for a lot of her session. After about 30 minutes of it we realized the song was repeating, oopsie! I still have that song stuck in my head. (S.O.S. she’s in distress)

When you come in for your own session be sure to bring in your iPod so we can have a super-fun session, just make sure you have more than 3 songs on it ;)

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Here’s a short music video/slide show of images from the photo session set to Laura’s first single, “Cover Girl.”