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A Beautifully Large Family Portrait in Ephrata

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Gavin Seim
on July 28, 2010
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What a great looking family eh? And they did a great job. I just had the privilege of making a portrait of all forty two of them. I won’t say it was easy, but I enjoy a hearty challenge. The planning started well in advance, meeting with Mr & Mrs Chamberlain and then visiting their farm various times to layout and plan the portraits. I even chatted with a few of my mentor photo elders before photo day, discussing options and getting ideas. When the time came, I didn’t even have an assistant, but planning ahead made things come together almost perfectly.

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Seim Studios 2011 Senior Portrait Model Program

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Gavin Seim
on April 28, 2010
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The great Central Washington weather is coming. After more than 7 years in business and with our new studio just open, it’s time to take applications for our Class of 2011 senior model program. What’s it all about... Continue Reading.

Canvas Wall Portraits

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Gavin Seim
on August 13, 2009
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I wanted to make a quick post about my new Wall Portrait offerings. I’m pretty stoked about them. Like furniture for the wall, our Wall Portraits are all at least twenty four inches and their what you’ll see on the walls at the studio these days. If you look at classical portraits and art you begin to understand that small prints like eight by tens and eleven by fourteens just don’t make sense for the wall.

Every great image deserves to be hung as a high quality canvas. Here’s a photo of me with the latest studio samples. They look more amazing in person so feel free to stop by and get a closeup. We’re offering them to current as well past clients so if you want a timeless print on your wall get in touch… Gav

PPW Competition 2009

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Gavin Seim
on March 11, 2009
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It’s actually been awhile since I’ve entered competition and it’s time I started doing it. It’s alot of work to prepare, print and submit so it’s easy to let it slide. Here’s the four 16×20 prints I’ll be entering this Spring. Since I do lots of wedding work I decided to enter two, and then one senior and a nature shot (you can only enter four). Here I come world ;)

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Merry Christmas

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Gavin Seim
on December 25, 2008
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Here’s wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. The blessings of Christ abound around us. I’m thankful for my family, my customers and my colleagues. Here’s a little collage of self portraits we made in the studio yesterday. It would be tough to send cards to everyone since I know so many people, this is our version of a Christmas greeting.

Gavin, Sonrda and Cyrus

My Wife Sondra

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Gavin Seim
on October 31, 2008
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Here’s a few shots I took of Sondra recently in our back yard. In staying busy with client jobs I don’t actually get to shoot Sondra that much, but she loves posing for me, and it’s a great way for me to try new ideas. What a beautiful wife I have :)

Family Portraits for my Brother

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Gavin Seim
on July 23, 2008
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This session was actually for my older brother Grant, his wife Aimee, and of course their little girl Grace. We shot these at their house up in the country above coulee city on a Sunday evening.

The sun was going down, and though time is tight at sunset, the lighting is sooo nice. I love it when I can do family pictures and capture that relaxed fun side of things that shows a family being a family.

I also had some fun using our HDR technique on Grant’s bike. This allowed us to get Grant on the motorcycle, and still have the sunset bold in the background.

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Family Portraits in Moses Lake

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Gavin Seim
on June 15, 2008
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Last Saturday I did a big family portrait session in Moses Lake for Cindy and her family. They were together for a graduation party for Brianna, and we had a nice big group.

Nothing to crazy or revolutionary here. We just got some nice portraits and had a little bit of fun. The group did a great job putting up with my crazy ideas. That always makes things easier. There were lots of separate group shots, as well and some big one’s of the whole family.

I did have a bit of a challenge because of the bright sun. In photography light is great, but direct sun is hard because of the shadows and squinting. I did some corrections in Lightroom starting with some of my own effects, and then a bit more in Photoshop to compensate for the harsh light, and give the shots a bit more mood.

Here’s a few of my favorites. You can click any image for a larger view… Gav

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