This kid Rocks!

I thought i would share some images from a kid i know.... My Daughter! she is barely a teenager and has been shooting with a P&S camera for about 6 years and in my opinion (I may be slightly biased) has an AMAZING natural eye. Her framing and composition of shots is very refreshing and I am blown away when I see new images that she shares with me. She is a big fan of landscape photography and self-portraits. She will probably be getting her first Digital SLR this fall and I hope she will want to learn all of the "boring" settings and stuff so she can improve on her raw and great talent. To see some more of her work, click here. All images below are shot by her except the one of us at the Valley of Fire... that one was on a timer on a tripod. I love her angle on the St. Louis Arch! Enjoy... and keep a look out, I plan on blogging alot more in the upcoming weeks!

My recent trip to Oregon and Alaska...

I must say that my trip was AMAZING! The scenery was so beautiful and working with some Fun and Talented people in the NW was great! I started by shooting with Katherine @ Cannon Beach during Sunset. She was beautiful and we were very fortunate to have a clear evening and a colorful sunset. When I got to Alaska, I hit the ground running with a Senior shoot with Bridget's Daughter and a fun horse! The next day, I worked with Joanna, Melissa, and Jody at Girdwood and Portage! The backgrounds were surreal and I think the Images will be just breath-taking! I was also able to Work with Joanna's family and her 3 grandsons! That was definitely a fun shoot with some portraits that I am sure they will cherish for years. The last shoot I did while in Alaska was with the Daughters of Shiva! for the shoot, we went to the Palmer Visitors center and Gardens and the Ladies worked it in front of some beautiful Flowers and a HUGE raspberry bush! All in all, it was an amazing trip and I look forward to visiting both places again and again and again! Thank you everyone for your support and if you missed out on working with me, be assured... I will be back! Images from the trip coming soon!

Glenn B.
Beyond Pairadice Studios

PS >>> Joanna, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! You are the BOMB!

My upcoming trip to Cannon Beach, Oregon and Anchorage, Alaska...

Hey there Blog World! As many of you may already know, I am headed to Cannon Beach and Portland, Oregon on August 21st-23rd, and then going directly to the Anchorage area in Alaska from August 24th-28th! I just want everyone to know that I still have a few spots available for shooting! This will be my last trip to Oregon and Alaska until June, 2010! AND the last time i will be offering bulk shoots at a discounted rate! Take advantage of this opportunity while it lasts. I will be shooting Model Portfolios, Belly Dance Portraits, Troupe portraits, and Family Portraits set against the beautiful natural backdrops in Oregon and Alaska. I would even love to shoot a wedding there! For More details look at my flyer below!To see my current work, please visit: http://www.beyondpairadice.blogspot.com/ and to contact me directly: (702) 401-3353 or glenn@beyondpairadice.com
I look forward to working with you!

Glenn Brogan
Beyond Pairadice Studios

Print work includes:Desert Rakkasah (book): http://www.beyondpairadice.com/desertrakkasah 2008 Desert Dancers Calendar: http://www.beyondpairadice.com/calendar

paying homage to my true inspiration... my vision... literally

Between my lens and my mind lies my true inspiration... my vision. I am writing about my eyes. They allow me the privilege see the world and give my mind things to think about all of the time, yet sometimes I overlook their presence and significance to me and my life. I recently read an article about the eye and it's comparison to the camera in the digital world and I thought I would share some of this knowledge with you. I am not going to quote this article, but I will tell you where I got it, so you can read all of it for yourself, if you choose. It was printed in the August 2008 issue of "Popular Photography". Most of what I am going to talk about is based on photography, so if it sounds foreign to you, read up on what you don't understand ~ if anything it will help your photo-taking skills! Let's start with the ISO of the eye: in daylight the ISO rating is 1 and the max ISO for the eye at night is 800. This refers to the sensitivity of the eye. In comparison Film's lowest ISO is 25, and some digital cameras go as high as 6400 (we see better in the day and cameras have the huge advantage in the dark). Now let's talk Depth of Field: the eye has the equivalent focal length of about 22mm and a field of view of almost 180 degrees at its extreme; our eyes are capable of f/3.5 at wide open. Camera Lenses have the advantage here as the fastest lens available now is a f/1.2 and there are some crazy fish-eye lenses out there, but i am content with non-distorted vision, thank you. The final eye detail I will mention for now is the one I have wondered about ever since I heard about digital cameras and mega-pixels... Resolution: the eye has the resolution of 576 Mega-Pixels! That in itself is incredible, as the biggest camera i have seen on the market is pushing about 39 mega-pixels. This is telling me that we are just at the beginning of digital photography and I am looking forward to see where it goes. I hope this opened your eyes to the marvels of... the EYE.

A great way to spend the 4th of July!

I decided to spend the evening of the 4th of July out in the desert shooting. Lucky for me, I had 2 beautiful and willing models to work with: Britt and Andrea. We went out to a dry lake bed and started shooting by 6:30pm. There was a great deal of wind and it was blowing in the wrong direction, but we were able to make it work. As a reward, we were given a spectacular sunset as a backdrop for some of the shots later that evening! Coming soon: Information on my trip to Oregon and Alaska in August, I still have limited spots available for shooting while I am on the road, so if you are by Cannon Beach, Oregon or the Anchorage Alaska area, contact me ASAP if you would like to book a shoot! I hope your 4th was as fun as mine! Enjoy...

Etched in Blood ~ The Dreaming

On friday night I had the honor and priviledge to shoot "the Dreaming" (a very good up-and-coming band from LA) as they were playing at the Icehouse Lounge here in Las Vegas. One member of the band, Chris Hall, was the former frontman of Stabbing Westward (an incredible band from the 90's). The venue was pretty small but it worked out in my favor as I was able to get some very up-close and intimate shots of the band. Musically, they were exceptional and their CD hits stores on Tuesday (6/24/2008). To check them out and hear some of their stuff, visit their myspace page. Enjoy...

Inspired, at Studio Ohm

My 2 favorite Belly Dancers, Britt and Marisa invited me to an evening of performances at Studio Ohm last weekend and without a doubt I went... with a camera (of course). The main reasons I went were to see Britt and Marisa perform and see their students perform as well. To my surprise, the performances were not just of belly dancers, but included a wide variety of dancing and an amazing percussion finale! I had a reserved seat (thanks girls) in the front row and was supposed to come and enjoy myself and not work (take pictures), but how could I not bring a camera to an event like this? I didn't bring lighting or flashes, just a fast lens and an open mind. The images captured were all in black and white and have a slight grainy feel reminiscent of film from years ago. Thank you all who performed for an amazing show and I will be posting images on my site for you to see in the near future. This show opened my eyes to some new styles of dancing and left me, ... well... inspired!

In The Studio

Glenn is very much an on-location photographer, but he also has a studio where he takes photos as well. It's nestled inside an art gallery, Master Source Art, that also has a framing business on site. I've seen many of his studio portraits, and they're awesome... I've seen everything from maternity to belly dancers and everything in between (my favorites have been family portraits and the toddlers).

The Master Source Art gallery where the studio is located has a wide variety of art to browse, I spent quite a bit of time just looking and taking it all in.

Glenn's studio is centrally located in Las Vegas and it's a very comfortable place to meet anyone's portrait needs - and the bonus? A framing business onsite to professionally (and beautifully) frame your new set of portraits.

What Sets Us Apart...

While re-designing the wedding section of our web site, I decided to add a page talking about our services and I titled it "What Sets Us Apart". On that page I give a brief synopsis of our services and started to mention what I feel we do differently from our competition. This got me thinking this weekend while processing images from a few weddings that we have recently covered and I must say I am very proud of our product! We offer our clients a refreshing approach to Wedding photography. We give our clients a very easy choice to get Exactly what they want from us. We don't force them into a "package" that they don't want or give them products as filler to make it seem like a great offer. We offer a fully customized experience that my recent clients have celebrated and I feel we will earn their return business as their Life-story expands because of this. We just recently, in 2008, adopted this way of client-customization that I must give credit to one of my mentors Bruce Hudson for giving me the base ideals to work from. I was very fortunate to attend one of his seminars in late December and taking from what I learned, I morphed his teachings along with what in my heart I knew clients would want and here we are today! I do believe we are distictly different and I love that we are!

Glenn B.

A day at the pool...

I had the pleasure of working with one of my favorite models the other day and we decided to do a "lifeguard" shoot as she is a lifeguard for the city. She brought all of the necessary lifeguard gear and we began shooting early in the morning. I had one of my close friends holding a reflector and helping with the shoot in general (it was her first time helping me and I think she had a blast seeing first-hand how I do what I do). Xia (the model) is a natural beauty that I discovered a few years back, and during this shoot she just naturally worked into great poses and I can predict her going as far as she wants to in modeling! I then had Xia change into a black hand-made crochet swimsuit for some more images! All in all, I would say one of my favorite shoots so far in 2008! Look at some images and tell me what you think!