First post.
So, this is my photoblog. I have my portfolios linked in the menu above. Extensive portfolios can be found there and I still have yet to, if ever, complete organizing and listing all my previous wedding galleries. I think I may just do this moving forward. I’ve been doing weddings long before I ever had reliable internet to upload such large amounts of media. We were one of the first to get Starlink, and so I could finally upload all my hard drives to the cloud. Well, they sent me an email basically saying unlimited did not mean the entire internet.
You can learn more about what services I offer in the menu above. I have all my information linked, but I hope this blog to be more about my photography. My photoblog. Rather than anything else. You can learn more about me here.
The photo posted here is a film photograph of a road in Seminole, Oklahoma. I love film. Moving forward with this blog I will be doing a perfect job of listing the film stocks I use and the camera for each image. After my next lab developments. Which could actually be a few weeks from now. But then, henceforth, a film photoblog that is curated correctly. But as for this image, I do not remember. But there is no point in waiting until the next film lab scans return. I have thousands upon thousands of photographs no one has ever seen. I’ve never been good a publishing. Capturing yes, but publishing… never get around to that. And it’s a waste of SEO power apparently.
Very recently, I have an office in town. Not a photo studio, no. Just an office for meetings and working, and a window large enough for advertising off the busy road of Wrangler Blvd, just across from the Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum. A great little space for meetings with clients, going over contracts, or edits, etc. Open by appointment only. You can find me on google maps by searching for Sara Sinead in Seminole, Oklahoma.
I am returning to client work after a long hiatus, after relocating back to Oklahoma, then I had decided to return to client work just before a car accident that injured my back so much I thought I was ruined to working weddings forever. Long hours and heavy equipment you know. However, my back has healed, and I’m very refreshed to make my art, work again. I’ve also been reading the only self help book that has ever helped: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I’m currently on week 6. It is very refreshing. I am giddy about work again. They say everything becomes work if you do it long enough. But, that doesn’t seem to have to be the case after all. I have found myself there in the past, but it was due to bending towards what others wanted of my work, and not what I wanted of it. I am now excited to offer my fine art services without bend.
My favorite photographer is easily Naomi Goggin. Most people know who Jose Villa is. So many copy his style, but I really love Naomi Goggin. She is what I’m going for. Film, candid, documentary, timeless. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I always think this when people ask you to define your style. That’s what a portfolio is for. There are my portfolios and then there is the portfolio I strive for in documenting weddings or elopements.
Weddings and elopements are my favorite thing to photograph for many reasons. The top probably being that the day may try to be contrived but always fails. It’s the perfect place to capture true stories. Everyone is so busy, they don’t have time to be self-conscientious all day. That’s when you can take the most beautiful portraits. There is also so much beauty and detail to document. It’s the equivalent of me going off and taking my exploratory vacation photos. Which, everyone knows that’s what I do on vacation. Pack a lot of film and find all the new places to take photographs. To document. If I must use words to describe photography or moving pictures that I create. I would call them documentary, fine art.
What I love about film photography is the surprise later. Not that much of a surprise as us photographers know what we are doing. But it is just like making something in a box, such as a present and getting to unwrap it later. Like Christmas! I prefer 35mm film photography for this. It just feels so much more like I’m making the photographs, not just documenting moments. Documenting moments is only half the fun. I do offer digital photography, and enjoy that nearly as well.
I find editing digital photography can take up more work than film because there are so many different ways to go afterward. So many style possibilities. Digital is great, because you can keep your raw images, and have them re-edited years later. But film photography is great because you can keep your film negatives and have them re-scanned later, or just have prints made from a projector…
I will try to check in here as much as possible and have our little chats along with publishing my actual photographs. Which you can also find at SaraSineadPhotography.com. I sell fine art prints on the home page there. Wall art, etc. I even started putting them on graphic tees. Mostly just for myself. I’m very picky when it comes to graphic tees.
