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Team Work

“cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause”, TEAM WORK. Thinking team work pretty much sums up todays shoot, everyone pulled their weight then some. The day started the norm, run to the studio, pack up lights, go over direction with Trish, work out a couple last minute details, then it was off to the shoot location. Set-up, shoot, move lights around, shoot some more, more lights around, shoot, and finally move lights for the last time of the day and shoot. Basically in a nut shell is was an awesome day and we were doing what we love. So a big thanks to everyone who helped out today……. Trish and Jason doing a little standing in…….
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Meet Jason

Jason has been with us for a couple years now, he is our behind the scenes guru and lighting assist, he has humped heavy loads, starred at computer screens for hours, dealt with our craziness and is a part of our team. Wanted to put a face to the name, so clap your hands and welcome Jason………. insert cheering noise here…..
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Glacier National Park

Words can’t do this place any justice, pictures even can’t. All I have to say about this place is amazing and I can’t wait to go back. Oh yea and another thing there are GRIZZLIES and we caught a glimpse of two of them eating…….
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Time is not on your side

TIME is something photographers are challenged with at pretty much every shoot, from working with creative all the way down to working with talent, and everything in between. Time fights us every chance it gets, it pulls us to become quicker and be more productive, it forces us to embrace what is happening and might cause us to change something in a split second to accommodate others. Being talent, creative, location, or available light, everything has to do with TIME. TIME is our friend and our enemy, we all love time, and many of us wish TIME would slow or stand still, always wishing we had more TIME.

What’s my point? well time is not on our side as photographers and there is pretty much nothing we can do about it, sure we can bitch and complain, but what good is that. Sure we can demand more time with talent, yea right, or we can just suck it up and deal. Out of the last stack of assignments we have dealt heavily with the whole time issue, pretty much always the same, photographer will have 2 hours to shoot with the subject. Two hours is a lot of time, sometimes even 20 minutes is a lot, well how about 10 minutes to do a couple different lighting set-ups? wipe your forehead, tighten your pants, get ready to grab a cool one because that’s how the last half a dozen shoots for us have gone, yup 10 minutes, welcome to the “A” Team, life in the fast lane, the majors. Talent has run late, make-up was a no-show, location needs to open back up, food isn’t prepped yet, wardrobe needs a last minute change, and athlete is tired and is not getting paid to do the shoot. This post is in no way a rant it is only a close reflection of the past couple months, everything equals TIME.

Last night was the perfect example of timing at a shoot, I can’t go into to many details other then the fact that I was ready to leave before I even started shooting, I have been treated like shit before, been called all sorts of crazy names, gotten kicked out of places, and have put up with my fair share of crap while being a photographer, but I have never ever considered walking away from a shoot, before last night. Working with and photographing athletes is where my passion lies, I love sports, but what I really enjoy is working with athletes to create images, photographs with impact and emotion. Everything that happened last night reminded me of THIS, sure I could of did a shitty job, busted out some poor lighting, said up yours and walked away, but instead I decided to toss my ego and feelings aside and make some photographs. The entire event last night made me a stronger photographer, it made me want to do an even better job, it pushed me to push back with my camera, and of course all in ten minutes, and we were lucky to even get that.

Years ago I meet a truly great sports photographer and he gave some of the best advice I have ever gotten, he said “the best pictures are made when people are pissed off” meaning the subjects, well last night I turned the tables and I was the person pissed off and I feel I made the best pictures………..

Power

When we were in Great Falls I was lucky enough to visit the Air Base with my good friend Matt who fly’s these bad boys, talk about some serious power……. Matt gave me the down and dirty tour and showed me around and I was lucky enough to visit the flight deck, so so cool. So thanks Matt for hooking me up with a one of a kind tour, and I can sleep better knowing your in the sky’s protecting us……..
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The second pic is not the best but I really love the play on POWER…..
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Time to Grow

Now that reality has slapped me once again across the face it’s time to face the facts. The biggest fact being our studio space is way to small to continue to work on the projects that we have been shooting, we did a major remodel last summer and looks like it’s time once again to tear down the walls. We are in the process of opening up our shooting area and moving our offices when it’s all said and done we will gain about an extra 1000 sq feet of space. Cool right? well it just means we have a lot to do in the coming weeks, this will be the 5th studio build out in the past 6 years, ouch………. Stacks of new features will be added into the new space including a make-up/dressing area, cool new lounge area, coffee and drink bar, and of course lots of wall space to show the goods…… So say good bye to the old and welcome the new sometime the end of July with a huge kick off party….. Pic is the current studio after our last remodel……
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Home Sweet HOME…….

Home after spending the last 2 weeks in RV land with my awesome wife Trish. Trip went something like this, Vegas, to Idaho (Henry’s Fork of the Snake River), Montana (Big Hole River), Missouri River, Great Falls MT, Glacier National Park, Great Falls MT, back to Idaho (Warm River), HOME…… Tired, exhausted, and glad to be home petting the dogs, missed them. The trip was a lot of fun, shot a bunch of images and caught a stack of trout…….. Couple from our trip….
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No joke running from Grizzlies……
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Fishing

Quick shot of Trish along the Missouri River outside of Great Falls, not much luck fishing but it was a perfect setting……
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RV Land

Been on the road for something like 5 days now, the RV has been broken in and we have been busy. Currently we are in Great Falls MT and will be here for a couple days before heading South. Fishing has been really good almost a little to good causing me to fish and not shoot, bad bad me……..Lots of shooting next week so stay tuned…
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Out of the Studio

We will be out of the studio until the 24th of June, all assignment or stock requests should be made directly to Jared @ 702.858.6742 or jared@jaredmcmillen.com, we will be getting back to voice messages and emails on a daily basis. We are heading North in search of a couple assignments and some huge trout…… We’ll try post along the way, you can always follow us on twitter @ studioatg……..
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