Film!

Here is an older natural light image I shot with Fuji Astia 100, in a Hasselblad 500 series camera with a 40mm 4.0 Zeiss lens. Fun times, yea!

New Portraits!

Starting to get back into shooting people and I thought I should share the series I'm working on. Portraits of whoever! These two happen to be family. My Dad/Mike and Brother/Tony. The series will contain three images per subject, each telling their own story. Looking forward to getting more of them shot, so if you want to be apart of it. Hit me up!

New kid in town!

My friends Cassandra and Aaron had a baby boy! They wanted a family portrait session with their new son Shaye, so I said what the heck - sure! Really easy kid to work with, got lucky I guess... Anyway, here are a few images from that shoot! Word...

Peaches!

Another awesome show to shoot! I'm not a huge fan, but I knew it would be a great foto op. Before the show I was told to only shoot the first three songs, ended up shooting till the last minute and no one said anything. Lucky me!

Here is the link to entire review:

http://www.melophobe.com/concert-reviews/peaches-amanda-blank-showbox-market-seattle-wa/

Also at the show was Amanda Blank never heard of her. Definitely enjoyed her set as well.

Sweet Head

Sweet Head was the opening band for Puscifer, same link as below, but here it is again.

http://www.melophobe.com/concert-reviews/puscifer-sweethead-moore-theater-seattle-wa/

Puscifer!

The front man to Tool, Maynard James Keenan has another band called Puscifer! If you haven't heard of them, than crawl out from the rock you live under and get schooled on their sound! Here is a link to the entire review...

http://www.melophobe.com/concert-reviews/puscifer-sweethead-moore-theater-seattle-wa/

David Gray!

Heres is another review! I also shot it with my better half Katie Lomax. Check out her stuff, @ katielomax.blogspot.com and katielomax.com. Awesome show to have shot! To see the entire review check it out here!

http://www.melophobe.com/concert-reviews/david-gray-lisa-hannigan-paramount-theatre-seattle-wa/

Seattle Concert Portraits Series Image #3

Third of the series. Really low light, so there be a lot of grain. This is Misty. I meet her date Aaron during intermission at the Puscifer show. Got a chance to chat with the two, really cool couple to have meet. I'm especially glad I did, because I got this foto and security would gave me the boot from front stage, luckily they were there to help keep my position up front, so thanks again you two! More images coming soon!

Some Architecture!

Heres a sorta-new architecture shot. It was shot with two pocket strobes, a Nikon SB 25 synced to my camera w/ pocket wizards and a minolta Sunpack 5000 on slave. I set up one in each corner with some available light dragging in. Then a second exposure for the outside. About twenty minutes in post and this is what you get. You don't need to bring much to one of these shoots now a days...

Did the Puyallup!

Hung out at the Western Washington State Fair for the day back in September. Thought I'd share part of that day with you. The last time I was there, I was working at the fair with Mini Mountain. Back in the day...

Westport...

Little day trip for some waves and some fotos...

Seattle Concert Portraits Series Image #2

Image # 2 of new b&w series. Bass player for Dead Trees. Taking shortly after their set at the El Corazon, in Seattle.

Seattle Concert Portraits Series Image #1

Basically I'm going to pick out a person from every show I go to and shot a portrait of them. Digital B&W series. This is my first one...

Some More Music Yo!

Shot some more for Melophobe. Never heard of the band,Dead Trees until that night, but it turned out to be some awesome tunes. If you want to check out the rest go here...

www.melophobe.com/concert-reviews/photo-feature-the-dead-trees-el-corazon-seattle-wa/

Music... Music... Music...

So I shot my first show for, melophobe.com at the Crocodile in Seattle, WA. The bands were Chris Brokaw and The Dirty Three. Chris Brokaw is a solo artist, reminded me of Andrew Bird on a much, much smaller scale. Dirty Three is a group of three dirty looking cats, I guess the bass player wasn't as dirty looking compared to the drummer and the singer, but their name definitely perceives them. It was a load-ruff-dirty-saga of new aged-experimental, folk-jam music. At least that’s what I thought, but what do I know I'm just a foto-grapher... Hope you likey!

CHRIS BROKAW:

THE DIRTY THREE:

Ski School 08-09

I started doing some photography this past winter for the ski school I teach with. Being that it was the first year for all of this, it more or less became an experiment/six week test shoot. One thing I found out, cataloging all the images to the right class/student, can be a real pain in the ass! I'm not going into the details of how hard it is, but you do need some serious structure. For next year I'm hoping there will be a little more team involvement on this project. Get this snowball rolling! No pun intended. At least so I'm only doing photo-shoots with people who signed up for them. That would help a-lot with cataloging. Regardless though, its some fun photography to do and I have a new portfolio I can use for work similar to this. Its always an investment…. Cheers!

Link to full catalog & Favorite catalog
www.jaredfroiland.com/skischool
www.jaredfroiland.carbonmade.com

Macro Flowers

Here are some top-secret macro shots I do around the house. I've been shooting it for a while and I'm happy to say they turned out... They’re all shot with natural light and for the most part random moments when the light was perfect. This usually happens around the third drink. Just kidding, maybe. On a more serious note, it can be an easy and quick way to be creative when you’re walking from the computer to the bathroom. Watch out for more Macro Flowers and Bugs, mmmmmm.

Okay now I'll officially become a blogger with my first post of images and short story.

The fourth of July, when we celebrate our independence by lighting of mass amounts of fireworks, eating hot-dogs, hamburgers, potato chips, macaroni or potato salad and if your at my family's get-together, than we can't forget the karaoke! It was a great time to celebrate new beginnings, just like our founding four fathers did.