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
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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


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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/


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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.


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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
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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:




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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.

Josh and Amber Smith

Being a senior in college, it's not uncommon for me to cover a wedding where the all the wedding party is about your age. That was the case here, and it seemed like Brad (my second shooter) and I were instantly everyone's buddy.

















The wedding was at Richardson Civic Center. A very familiar place to me. I grew up going there for seminars my dad would put on, and additionally I have a picture permanently hanging at the public library right there from a contest I won back when, I even had a gallery showing there. To top it off, Santa's Village was going on a the time, a place I would go as a child and play. There were plently of fun houses and christmas lights to play with now as a photographer.











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Erik and Brandi improv e-session.

These are my college roommates. Yes, it's a little strange living with an engaged couple, but they're great roommates. I gave them a photoshoot in exchange that they take care of the lawn. haha. no joke.

We started with some 'in studio' shots, which happens to be the living room when fully set up.

Then we walked to the park. On the way, there's this swing in front of someone's house. We've all always wanted to swing on it. Brandi got to.




Yes, they have a dog, but this is not theirs. This was a dog we found at the park. And ultimately had to take home and put 'found dog' signs up.



The shoot wouldn't be complete without some backyard trampoline action. The shoot ended when the found dog, bit my dog, right after this photo.


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Lewis Family

Jessica Vick-Lewis is part of the Vick family, which is friends with the Matthews family, (the family I'm marrying into). I enjoyed photographing them.




Something tells me this is not the last shoot I'll be having with a Vick. there are a lot of Vicks, and they have kids. :)

Location: Veterans' Park, Arlington, TX


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