Rachel Swain Photography

Busy body.

2009-04-20T08:38:00.000-07:00

Hey folks!! A lot has been changing even within the month. I am now working as an assistant for Geneve Hoffman. It has been a great learning experience thus far and I have a feeling this summer is going to be, very busy, but great. Along with working the weddings I have been doing my own photoshoots. I just did a photo session with Sam & Marion who got engaged a couple days after our time together. They were a lot of fun and the photos were a big hit with all their family and friends. Here's some from the session...

6 Months

2009-03-27T07:42:00.000-07:00

I've been blessed enough to take pictures of baby Luke on his 3 months and now his 6 months. It's so great watching this little guy grow and change. Next time I see him I'm pretty sure he's be crawling away from me the entire session! Haha. Well, here's a few of the final products from the shoot!! Hope you enjoy them!

Seniors!

2009-02-12T09:41:00.000-08:00

This last weekend I had the opportunity to do my first senior picture session with Jill and Polly. It was a lot of fun despite the cold weather. The picture session included walking around to different locations, climbing around in barns (boy was that scary), and lots of laughs. I'm really enjoying the photos too now that I've been able to play around with some actions in lightroom! Enough talk though... here's the images.

This is Polly!

This one's just for me...

Here's Jill!

I love the arrow pointing to her in this one. I didn't even know it was there until a couple pictures in!

This one is probably my favorite of Jill.

I'm hoping that I can get in touch with more seniors who are looking for their senior portraits but we'll see! Thanks for looking for now. :-)

Testing Myself...

2008-10-08T11:01:00.000-07:00

The other day I went out to the beach with one of the most IMPOSSIBLE friends that I know to photograph. Now, I say impossible because she does not take direction very well. I also went out at 2:00pm when the lighting was horrible to see what I could get out of this experience, how I could manipulate things to make some incredible images. Here's a few of my favorites from the shoot.

So, needless to say, I am pretty happy of the outcome and along with that came more self confidence in directing my subjects and paying attention to the light in my images.

Tomorrow I start my commercial studio class! Let's see where this takes me. Ta ta for now.

Rach

Best Friend

2008-10-01T05:19:00.000-07:00

Happy October 1st. It's strange to think another month has already passed. My school vacation is almost over and I will be heading back to school with a whopping schedule of 2 classes including environmental science and commercial photography. This isn't what I came to write in my blog at all though. Back to the point! I took pictures of my best friend Britt yesterday. She is awesome. We walked through fields of prickets just to get these pictures but I am very happy with the way things turned out. Here's some images from the shoot.

And one more just for fun.

It was good to get out of work after the clouds broke and the sun peeped out for a little. I've got a series of photoshoots lined up now, some in town and some in Boston. Should be good! Fairwell for now. Until next time....

Apple Picking!

2008-09-21T06:09:00.000-07:00

It's already that time of the year again. Although, I'm not quite sure where summer went. Considering my hectic schedule with work and night classes though I should have figured it would be this way. Nonetheless, it's time for apple picking and that's exactly what my family did the other day. I can't even begin to tell you how much fun it was. I haven't been apple picking for a long time and I don't think I'll skip a year of apple picking in the future. Here's a few pictures of the sisters apple picking.

She is so gorgeous. apple picking in style. haha.

Happy she got the one she wanted.

The little goofball. She was having a great time.

Picture of the two of them with a bunch of pumpkins.

Pumpkinhead??? :-)

Resting from playing drums on the pumpkin.

Applecrest in Hampton Falls, NH has the best donuts. Yum.

Face painting time.

I just love this photo. She was actually calm and sitting still. I couldn't believe it. Her face is beautiful.

I have a bunch of other photos from the shoot on my flickr so that's just the overview. I also took a roll of black and white film. Getting back to the basics was a good break and made me appreciate so much more how cameras have developed over the years. I'll be scanning in some of the photos later this week to share. Until then... goodbye!

Rachel

Photoshoot with Trevan

2008-09-10T11:40:00.001-07:00

Well, classes are coming to an end. I have my Literature, Digital Production Techniques and Studio Photography finals next week. Overall it's been a great term full of new information. I never knew how much I would love being in the studio but it's amazing. Anyways, here are a few pictures from my last studio class. Trevan was a great model and really easy going. He is a football player and wrestler at a high school in Sanford, Maine.

Hope you all enjoy the photos!

Studio Class

2008-09-03T10:45:00.000-07:00

This is going to be a HUGE update including all of my favorite images taken thus far in my lighting for portraiture class at McIntosh college. Here they are...

I have enjoyed every single second of this class. The best part about it is, I can see how far my photography has come since the beginning of my journey and I'm really excited to see how far I go and how much I learn and adapt to new styles and techniques in the future.

Rach

First Blog!

2008-09-02T15:24:00.001-07:00

So, I thought I would give this blogging a try. We'll see how well I keep up with it!

Today I had a photoshoot with Zach Sarette (www.zachsarette.com). He is a wedding photographer from Manchester, NH. He's a super cool guy, really easy going and takes great quality images from what I can see on his website. Here's a few pictures from the session.

Zach also took a picture of Alex (my boyfriend/trusty photoshoot helper) and myself once we finished the shoot.

Overall, it's been a great day. Went and visited my family after the session and then went back home to relax and watch House. We'll see what the rest of the evening has in store for me. Well, back to work tomorrow so I'm going to get going for now. Will write again soon.

Rach