What I’m talking about is becoming a senior model for me!! You know, you be yourself and I’ll take some BA photos of you to share with all your friends!

Interested? Well then here’s the deal…

First we’ll start off with a 30 minute mini photo session customized to you, and only you. Not those cookie cutter photos you get from the other guys… you know who I’m talkin about!!

After your session, I’ll pick the best 4 or 5 photos and post them on my facebook ‘like’ page where you’ll be taged and can share with all your bff’s.

At the same time, I’ll throw in some senior model cards… they’re like business cards but cooler and they have your name and photo on there. These are for you to pass out to all your friends… so they know who you are… Na, j/k they’re for you to pass out so they know who took all those awesome photos!! Me!

Then, for every friend that books a senior photo session with me (at my regular price), you will get CASH!!! Yeah, I said cash! I know those cars don’t run on water… right??

So what do you get out of this? Well to start, some awesome photos. Then if you refer your friends and they book a session you’ll get cold hard cash! Plus, you’ll also get 50% off your FULL senior photo session!!

Sound good? Ok, then lets get it started! All you need to do is go to the 2011 Senior Model Application located at the link below, fill out the form and then I’ll get back in touch. That’s it! Simple.

Please remember this is for current seniors graduating in 2011. If you’re a Junior this year keep on the lookout… you may see something say around January… hint, hint!!

2011 Senior Model Application

Don’t settle for the cookie cutter photos from the school contract photographer? You know, the same ones every senior gets? You want BA photos instead, right???

Book in August for a Senior Portrait session and get 2 8×10 prints of your choice, a 3×3 mini album (photog’s choice), 3 photos to post on-line to facebook or myspace and 2 hours of session time with as many clothing changes as you can fit! All for $150!!

Take the assembly line yearbook photo from the contract photographer and then book with me! Personalized, fun and creative photography for this once in a lifetime event!!

You’ve made it this far… you deserve it!!!

Book Now!!!

I had a wonderful opportunity to photograph Elizabeth and Joshua in a Pre-Deployment OpLove photo session last week. While the weather was extremely hot and bugs were everywhere, I captured some really nice moments of the two in a relaxing park by the St. Johns river.

Enjoy a quick video of the photos from the shoot!

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Thanks Sarah and mom! I hope we stick together over the next couple years and continue this awesome trend!!!

It’s official. I’ve been accepted as an Operation: Love Reunited (OpLove) photographer!

Operation: Love Reunited is a non-profit organization that provides free photo sessions to deployed or soon to be deployed active duty military and their family. As a photographer, I volunteer my time and talent in providing free photo sessions and a free 4×6 photo album to the deployed service member.

Our service members put their lives on the line for us every day and this is a great way to give back to them. I know first hand what it’s like being away from family and friends for months on end as I’ve served in the U. S. Navy for 10 years and experienced several deployments myself. I wish this service would have been around back then but I’m happy that it is now and that I can be a part of it.

If you’d like more information on Operation: Love Reunited. Please visit their web site listed below. Also, if you know of a service member and his or her family that would benefit from this service, please direct them to the web site or to me and I can help them!

Operation: Love Reunited

But while testing this new feature in the CS5 prerelease beta I found that while you could select an area and then press the delete key to bring up the Fill dialog window, the use of the delete key would only work on the Background layer and not on any duplicate layers.

Strange right? This drove me nuts but…

There is a reason for this and it because you can’t “Delete” data from a Background layer to transparency, so that’s why the Fill dialog comes up. It just happens that Adobe lists Content-Aware as the first item in the drop down menu of the Fill window.

While you can use Edit > Fill… from the menu on duplicate layers, I wasn’t satisfied with that option so I decided to start pressing keystrokes to see if I could get the Fill dialog to come up on a duplicate layer. Well sure enough, if you press the Shift+delete key with a selection on a duplicate layer the Fill dialog will appear and you can simply press enter to activate the Content-Aware fill option.

I hope this little tip helps you out while using Content-Aware fill in your work!

I didn’t get a chance to talk to the guy by himself but he was singing his heart out. It’s good to see other peoples reactions and that they can find it in their heart to give a couple bucks.

Enjoy!

Would you like a free portrait photo session? How about some free photos for your Myspace or Facebook page? Do you like discounts? Well then how about a discount on prints? Would you like the opportunity to earn even more free prints and discounts?

Scott Russell Photography is looking for people like you. We’re opening the doors for Jacksonville high school students to apply and become student models and  representatives for our studio and portrait photography business. Our model reps will be the public faces for all Senior and Student portrait photography for our business so we’re looking for outstanding individuals who will fit that role.

As a student model rep you will be expected to cooperate with the studio and get referrals for other friends and students to book photo sessions with us. By doing this you will get a few things up front.

• You will get a personalized portrait session all for you. We can do this in studio or on location or both, it’s all up to you. Do you have a favorite place you’d like photos taken? Do you have some cool ideas? Let us know and we’ll make it happen.
• From that initial photo session, you’ll get 3 poses (in digital format) to post to your Myspace or Facebook page.
• If you’d like any prints, you’ll also get a 25% discount on all print orders.
• You will also get personalized referral cards to hand out to all your friends. (psst, this is how you get more free stuff!)
• For every senior or student who books a Paid session (at our regular session fee of $150), you will get a $20 credit that can be used for future print orders. Remember those referral cards? That’s how we know the referral was from you!
• Also, if needed, we can schedule other photo sessions in case you or we come up with some other cool ideas we’d like to photograph.

So if you think you have what it takes to be a model rep (good grades, an outgoing personality and an outstanding attitude) then come on, what are you waiting for? Student Model Rep positions are limited so click the link below to get started by filling out and submitting an application form!

Student Model Application

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