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Success in The City Fashion Event @ Atlantic Station 2014

E37 Photography by Ralph Williams photographed Success in the City Fashion show presented by the Event & Fashion Show class. Dr. Courtney A. Hammonds hosted a viewing audience of over 200 + people, student volunteers (over 70 from AIA-Decatur and Dress for Success), entertainment (Amber Harris and Collective Element)   models,  Gap Inc. brands , Paul Mitchell,  Strip restaurant, Atlantic Station (staff) and strategic nonprofit Dress for Success. The slide show music by Dominic Amato "Out The Gate" provide music added in the slideshow provided some smooth jazz sounds as the models walked the runway. Some of the images that followed are a representation of the show events. The event ended after the sunset at Atlantic Station with a definite change in the atmosphere of the program from light to dark. Camera lights were necessary to complete the job as the models walked the runway with only the red lights on the runway floor to support them. The lights of the skyline office buildings provided a spectacular backdrop of glittering lights in sky.

Amber Harris and The Collective Element 

The photograph below is a collage of the volunteers who supported the fashion show. They wore black so they were easy to spot all around the area fenced off from the regular public. Seats were arranged on both sides of the runway with white chairs. Before and in the middle of the fashion event the musical group Amber Harris and The Collective Element performed. They also had a dj playing music before and during the breaks. The show ended with some of the sponsors on stage handing out papers to the students who finished the course from the Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur. The school directors and a member representing the Gap clothing company were on the stage to talk. Everyone was very happy and smiling with the scene of a college graduation. I am sure there were many satisfied family members, and friends in the audience who came out for support.

Dr. Hammonds

Volunteers from Art Institute Atlanta-Decatur and Dress for Success

Model and Entertainer from Atlanta makes front cover of HustlerAire magazine photos credit:E37 Photography

Entertainer and entreprenuar StrangeThang of Atlanta came by E37 Photography studio for a photo session. We tried a variety of poses with head shots and full body coverage. She is known for her hair and face expressions. The photographer used Photoshop to remove the portrait gray background behind her and replace it with a night photograph that brought some drama and mystique to photograph. Her facial expressions just pops off the walls of the building in the background. The goal was to put her in a night scenes which was completed with her face in the foreground. How do you like her hair? She is full of style and flair and is definitely going somewhere. The photographer used other backgrounds beside the brown building. E37 photographer will show a few more examples of backgrounds used in this blog. The artist and photographer are both from the metro Atlanta area. Music with rap and spoken word is very popular in our urban city. Look out for more StrangeThang because still going to make her rounds in and out of town. E37 Photography hopes capture more images at another opportunity to work together again on future projects. Let's enjoy this one that we see below of her face the front magazine cover. ~Ralph Williams, Photographer

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You can see the many combinations of images that can be used in different ways for promotion,etc.

My post today is yet another image of Strange Thang I figure if she was good enough for the magazine cover she was good enough for my Facebook background. I used the company logo with the e37 and traditional red,black, and white. I add gray also has a neutral color to blend with her the black and white image of her. I plan to continue using Photoshop and then use more of Indesign both products by Adobe. I will be in heaven when I show you more commercial looking layout with images. I am adding my Facebook so you can see the background page. 

•                         “We acquire the strength we have overcome.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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MLK Jr. Holiday photography session with fashion model Crystal and E37 Photography

It was a wonderful day to photograph outside on the beautiful Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in Tucker, Georgia outside Atlanta. E37 Photography traveled to meet Noel who is the father of Crystal a lovely model. There were other photographers on location at Arthlene Laudat Legair Designer. All the fashion designs were lovely. Some casual and others were more formal. Crystal had plenty of company with make up artists and hair people. Since the weather was so nice outside, we photographed her in the front of the store.The rest of the time we photographed in the store.

Fashion photography is so colorful it takes your breathe away each time. Crystal looked different with changes in fashion, make-up and hair styles. It was a very relaxing atmosphere. Each photographer took turns taking photographs. Her dad said that some of the images will be in publication. Who knows you might see E37 Photography in the media again. Check out the designer t-shirt Crystal wears by Arthlene Laudat LegairDesigner. www.legairbrandltd.com

Photographer captured this pose for the romantic lovers in world

Here is the black background version of Crystal in red dress

The next image was photographed the same day at the fashion store but was more complex to work. The model was posed in this long flowing gray dress but the detail conflicted with the extra clothes on the racks. The foreground and the background were too busy. The photographer decided to Photoshop out all the busy details of the clothes in the background. Since her dress was gray in color combinations. The photographer thought of grey clouds. He saved a jpeg image from Internet and added it to the background. The photographer used several selection methods in Photoshop which took time but it was worthwhile in the end. This imagine became the most popular of all images on Facebook compared to the other model look she  posed. Crystal's family liked it and the image was shared several times on Facebook. E37 Photography shared this image on Facebook along with other Internet social media places. The photographer believed it was possible. The hard work of combining the model posed in grey dress and unique grey clouds matched in perfect harmony. See this image below. The hard work did pay off with this project.

Hello Folks, Ralph Williams the photographer is back again with another sample of model Crystal at Arthlene Laudat Legair Design. She was wearing a lovely pink dress sitting on a sofa in front of clothes in the store. The focus was on her wearing the clothes not the background of clothes hanging up on the rack along with pictures,etc. Yes, pink clouds exist so they were used in the background to match her dress. Who would imagine that she would be posed in two separate cloud images~pink and gray.

Before and After results

Crystal was photographed in a retail fashion store with black and white background change from color. The photographer did this to distort the busy background of colors.The color foreground of the model is now the central focus of the image. 

E37 Photography presents Model/Actress Ms. Aundria Towns

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