CollinMartin Photography Blog

Below are a few of the resulting images from a bi-weekly photoshoot event called “1100″ that takes place in my studio space. Other photographers that participated in this event were Carlo Seran and Nick Brazinsky.  Click here for the flyer for the next event.  Make-up was done by Joyce Hrdlicka. Retouching was done by [...]

I’ve always had this distaste for action images shot at night (in low light). You see, many people shoot in a way that results in not being able to see any scenery/setting of a shot well after sunset. I suppose you can drag your shutter a bit but that doesn’t seem to cut [...]

I’m learning more and more about beauty shots. Here is an image of a model named Ameena.  Make-up is done by Samantha Sunderhuse.
Here is a before and after animation.

I bought a bunch of these playground balls to play some games of dodgeball with some friends. Turns out they came in handy for this shot. I’m not sure what I was/am going for in this shot other than creating a very vibrant image.
In this next shot you can see one of my [...]

Here is a set of photos of a band called “It Is What It Is“.  I really like the location of the first image. Such a weird house. The ticket booth was a random find. On the day of the shoot, I found that there was a carnival being set up near [...]

Here are a few images of my new roomate, Travis Rhodes. He is a young lad, only 18 and just moved here to Chicago from a small town in Ohio. He was very proud of his new American Apparel undies and, of course, we had to shoot him in them. On a [...]