A day with Vanessa Rae Jamison

For my video class I filmed this video of Vanessa Rae Jamison dancing at the World Trade Center in Portland, OR. I wanted to make a video that was very elegant and simple. Vanessa did a great job dancing and I am so grateful she came out to let me film her. I know by the end of the day (about 5 hours later) she was pretty exhausted!

I filmed this video with the Canon 5d Mark II which is such an amazing camera! This was my first time filming with the Mark II, and I am amazed at how quickly I picked it up! I have definitely fallen in love with it! I experimented a lot with going in and out of focus, which you'll see a lot in the video. I hope you love it as much as I do!

And I want to congratulate Vanessa, who has recently graduated high school and is headed off to California to live her dream! I wish you all the success and happiness, and look forward to seeing where you end up in life!



Filmed and edited by: Kara Santa Ana
Assisted by: Alex Perry
Performed by: Vanessa Rae Jamison
Music: Coldplay - Fix you (Datsik remix)
Location: The World Trade Center, Portland, OR
Date Created: May 23, 2012

I also had the pleasure of doing a photoshoot with Vanessa! Here are a couple of her images from the shoot. She is absolutely stunning!

Skate session at the waterfront

So the weather here in Portland has actually been quite wonderful lately. We still get those days of rain, but last week the sun stayed shining for a couple days! I decided to take advantage of the great weather and get outside for a fun shoot!

I gathered up two of my friends, David and Josh, and headed to the Portland waterfront for a skate session.

For this shoot I focused more on getting fun portraits of these two rather than skate shots. I wanted to try and capture their personalities. I chose to convert all these images to black and white because I liked the look and feel of the images without color.

These are a few of the shots from the shoot!

<3 Kara

Leaves

A couple weeks ago while I was working a guest came up to me and gave me this leaf he had found outside the hotel. He told me how wonderful it would be if I could take a macro shot of the texture on the leaf.

This little leaf was the inspiration for my most recent photo project; Leaves.

All of these images were taken outside of the Phoenix Inn Suites in Vancouver. And I couldn't help but take pictures of the flowers that were blossoming as well!

Enjoy! =)

<3 Kara