half a month later

"blog"? what's that...



I had a shoot with a girl I worked on a film with years ago: Stephanie Smith
it was a really windy day and freezing, so we had to move indoors. nothin' we couldn't overcome. we found a storage unit and a model home, and got permission to shoot at both. haha.











more updates coming soon. Life and work has been fast pace. Not complaining, just making excuses.

-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

Dallas Commercial Photographer
Texas fort worth Aerial Photography
Produce Real-estate 360 Virtual Tours
Dallas Texas Wedding Photography
North Texas Purchase gallery Photography
Dallas Texas Portrait Photographer

Shreveport for Business

I had a last minute aerial job fall on me and made the best of it. The location was near Shreveport, LA, so it would've been a long flight from Dallas. I quickly realized I knew a commercially licensed pilot in Shreveport who happens to be there training someone how to fly a R-44 right now.





The r-44 is a four seater, so I called up my best friend, Chopper, (name has no relation to helicopters), and he made the road trip with me, he also flew in a helicopter for the first time. ...and with this particular pilot, is quite a thrill!

That's him the foreground, I'm in the back seat with the door off.

Location:

Here is what we were photographing. All those trucks are pumps, to pump out hydrocarbons.




To prospective clients: You're always welcome to ride along on a photo flight! It does require this particular helicopter as opposed to the smaller 2 seaters. Ask us about rates!


-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

Texas TX Aerial Photography

"Eye candy"

At least that's what the ladies on facebook are calling it. haha. The reaction to when he made this his profile picture was one heck of a reaction from the females. Sorry Brandon, I just don't see what they see, but then again, it might be weird if I did.



Brandon Coots is an old friend of mine. We lived in the same dorm freshman year of college and then ended up in the same Linguistics class. Coots, as everyone calls him got these head shots to sumbit to an agency for acting and modeling. We got him a good variety, these were some of my favorites. Best of luck to him.






PERSONAL:
Sorry for not updating in so long. I can't even begin to describe how busy it's been. I'm not complaining, I'd rather be busy than bored, but it's sometimes hard to make time for the blog.

I have a pretty hefty countdown coming up. 1 week until my snowboarding/ photography road trip, 2.5 months until graduation, 3 months until my nephew is born, 3.5 months until my and Sarah's wedding!


-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

Dallas, tx Commercial Photographer
San Antonio, Texas Aerial Photography
Produce Real-estate 360 Virtual Tours
Denton, Texas Wedding Photography
Dallas Fort Worth, Texas Portrait Photographer

Sophia Shoot

Sophia is a striking young lady who I had a shoot with a couple weeks ago, and boy does she have some hair. I've never worked with hair so thick, so it was a lot of fun to work into the photos. Here are some shots:


getting started.


having fun.


creative lighting, hair!


more hair!


modelesque


serious look


her idea actually. Love it!


getting dark - moved indoors.


The End.

I hadn't had a shoot like this in a while, it was a lot of fun. Sorry to post so many, maybe I should've posted one of those videos. Next time.


OFF TOPIC
The weather is wonderful lately. I love it! If you're wanting photos, portraits, etc, now is the best time, soon there will be pollen, t-storms, haze, heat, etc, and not to mention wedding season is coming up. Give me a shout now!. :)


-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

Dallas, Texas Commercial Photographer
Texas Dallas Shreveport Aerial Photography
Virtual Tour production, Dallas, TX
Denton Texas Wedding Photography
Denton, Texas Portrait Photographer

massive UFO, metorite spotting Feb 20th in Dallas / Oklahoma

I'd say it was about 11pm, I should have noted the time. I saw a massive massive orange fireball streak through the sky. I was playing basketball with some buddies in East Plano, just north of Dallas and I saw it come from overhead last for a good three to four seconds heading north and then burnt up. It started as a streak, you could see it grow in size, light up large almost like an explosion and then it seemed to break into tiny lit up pieces. It was absolutely amazing. I can't find any information about it because there was just another fireball the other day that landed in the area, and all my search results lead to that. This one must have landed in Oklahoma, heck maybe even Kansas.

If anyone else saw this is has any news about it, please please comment. This is my photography blog, but this is the most public source of communication I have. I'm hoping someone else sees this who also saw the same asteroid on Feburary 20, 2009.

And because this is a photography blog, here's an UNRELATED astronomy photo of mine for ya.

unrelated photo by jonny


-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

Dallas Commercial Photographer
Texas Aerial Photography
Produce Real-estate 360 Virtual Tours
Dallas Texas Wedding Photography
Dallas Texas Portrait Photographer

Mini Planets

This is a series I've compiled over the last few years. They're a lot of fun to build and photograph. The end result is so wacky. Enjoy:











A tutorial can be found here at photomojo
http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/create-your-own-panorama-planets/


-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

Dallas TX Commercial Photographer
Dallas TX Aerial Photographer
Virtual Tour Production
Denton Texas Wedding Photographer
Denton Texas Portrait Photographer

Longhorn Helicopters Fleet

I went out to longhorn helicopters the other day for a strange and very coool assignment. They started off wanting a just a shot of the crew and the helicopters in the background. I took that shot, and since they all had to get the helicopters back to the hangar, I talked them into another photo. .. :)


Here is tandy setting up this photo.


And here it is. Hehe. No photoshop, this is all real, 6 helicopters in a tight airspace.


Additionally I took individual photos for them.


Here are the company owners



Helicopters are a very tricky thing to photograph. You have to have a really slow shutter speed 1/50 seemed to do the job. You think it would be the opposite, but when the blades are frozen, the chopper looks like a rock in the air. With the slow shutter speed, you have to have decent panning skills or the pilot must have killer hover skills and you have a steady hand.


-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

Dallas TX Commercial Photographer
Dallas TX Aerial Photographer
Virtual Tour Production
Denton Texas Wedding Photographer
Denton Texas Portrait Photographer

MY engagment shoot by Tre Lathon

Another personal post.

For those of you who don't know, I'm engaged to the wonderful Sarah Matthews. I now sit on the other end of finding photographers, and it's not easy to do. I have a big pool of friends to choose from, Justin documented the helicopter engagement proposal and did a great job. Brad and Charlie are covering our wedding, and for our engagement shoot we choose Tremayne Lathon of Lathon Photography. We were very happy.


This was my favorite shot from the shoot. This ally way is very meaningful to us.


JUMP
to see more pics from the shoot visit Tre's blog post.


-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

Andrea and TJ engagement session

Andrea and TJ were a funny couple. They kept messing with each other while I pretended to be "testing the lighting". hehe. You'll see some of the shots in the video.










Location: Downtown Mckinney, Texas and the Grand Hotel


VIDEO slideshow:




-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

Dallas Texas Commercial Photographer
Dallas TX Aerial Photography
Dallas TX Real-estate 360 Virtual Tours
Denton Texas Wedding Photography
Dallas Texas Portrait Photographer

Facebook Deactivation ...?!?!

My account has been disabled by an administrator, without warning and without explanation. If you don't see me on there, that is why.

I'm bewildered, I've emailed them twice now, called, and still no reply. From researching online, this doesn't seem uncommon... Hopefully I will be back up and running. There were so many photos, messages, posts, notes, and memories in that network that would be so horrible to loose forever. Not to mention the social networking, friends and contacts I've made and met, etc.

I'm really hoping for it back or at least an explanation. I honestly did not knowingly violate any terms and am very regretful if I did violate any of their terms.


-Jonny Carroll 'Donut'
june 22, 2005 - jan 26, 2009

Be pulling for me / my account.
Let this also be a lesson to everyone to never put all your faith into technology.