Framed by Light
Utah Wedding and Event Photography by Ryan Romeike
Telephone: 801-661-1990
Email: ryan@framedbylight.com
A Future Olympian Gymnast
A Future Olympian
The Carters
A few finished photos from a family portrait session in the studio…what a great looking family!
Sunset Valley Photowalk
This past Saturday, I had a chance to head up into the foothills of Salt Lake County and mingle with photonerds and camerageeks like myself. Thanks to Photowalking Utah and the evening’s sponsors; Pictureline and Olympus I had one heck of great time. We met at Pictureline’s Draper store at 6pm for a short, albeit informative and lighthearted lesson about low-light photography courtesy of Rich Legg. The good folks at Pictureline managed to procure a dozen of Olympus’s E-PL1 micro four-thirds cameras for the group to demo for the evening. I gave them my Visa Platinum card and hoped my limit would cover the off-chance I dropped this camera down the mountain-side.
I’ve previously owned a Panasonic GF-1 micro four-thirds camera and had I bottomless pockets, I still would. The cameras are small, stylish and take amazing photos. At least my GF-1 did. I wasn’t impressed with the Olympus – though a few of the gimmicky art-filters were kinda neat. Not great, but neat. The Olympus felt sluggish and did not allow for easy manual controls. I like having shutter-speed, aperture, ISO, etc, readily available and easily changeable. The Oly came up short in form and fuction. The photos at 200 ISO showed significant noise and I even shot in RAW (post in Lightroom 3). The lens itself wasn’t super wide or super long – just kinda blah – and slow. My previous Panasonic had a sharp, fast f/1.7 pancake lens that was just amazing. Had all my efforts and $ gone to my pro gear -I’d have kept the GF-1.
Friday Night Lights
This past Friday evening I had an awesome opportunity to join a bunch of SLC area photographers for a spur-of-the-moment impromptu gathering courtesy of local stock photographer extraordinaire, Rich Legg.
Rich Legg
Rich sent out a Tweet late Thursday night/early Friday and offered the chance to come to his studio in Draper for an evening to play and learn with his lights (check it out – it’s awesome AND affordable!). The power of Twitter to gather and amass people continues to impress me. Ten years ago, this could have taken a few weeks to plan. Now – it takes minutes. About a dozen of us showed up including fellow tweeps: @nicolesy @davdphotography @FenGou @JeremyHall @angrygardner @CoreyLuke @TamaraLuke @leahkcat , @tbangerter and a few others!
Setting Up the Shot with Julie and David
I can’t begin to tell you how amazing the local Salt Lake photography community is. Rich didn’t ask for money. He opened his studio essentially to a dozen or so strangers and shared his time, his equipment and most importantly his knowledge. He took the time to carefully explain how he set up his lighting – going over setups, metering and posing. No one was made to feel stupid. And everyone had lots of time to practice with their own camera using his lights and Pocketwizrds. Rich even shared his lenses! We spent the better part of the evening in three different lighting set-ups…laughing, learning and watching each other work. We gratefully had a few models who volunteered their time to pose for us and here are some of the results including a criminally awesome photo of yours truly!
I'm Innocent - No Really!
Model Julie
Julie the Model II
Bubbles
Natalie Wilson
Natalie Take Two
Thank you Rich – I certainly am grateful for people such as yourself who freely and openly share their knowledge with others when it comes to photography. As Kenneth Linge (another amazing SLC photographer) says, ” No Secrets!”
Rich is also one of the founding fathers of Photowalking Utah – another awesome group that gets together about once a month to mingle, socialize and create photographs together. In fact – most of the photographers I know on Twitter is due in part thanks to Photowalking Utah. Along with other groups such as Utah Strobist and SLC Smug we have a pretty amazing support system for photographers of all ages and abilities here in Utah. Throw in people like Rich – and you have a recipe for learning you won’t find anywhere else in the country. To be fair though – I think an evening of people messing around with Rich’s gear may have taken it’s toll on him :-)
Strung Out on Photography
