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Bone Daddy | Redliners

February 11th, 2010

We have been up to some pretty awesome stuff lately. As you may or may not know I am more than a wedding photographer in the Tampa bay area. I love wedding photography and all it involves but sometimes I have to do MAN stuff! and band photography happens too be one of those man [...]
 

We have been up to some pretty awesome stuff lately. As you may or may not know I am more than a wedding photographer in the Tampa bay area. I love wedding photography and all it involves but sometimes I have to do MAN stuff! and band photography happens too be one of those man things I love to do. Hanging out with a good band and having a beer while we take pictures is pretty fun way to do the job.

I have  been in bands for a while both professionally on different labels and for fun, so doing band photography is just a natural step for me to take. I know and understand wanting to be the coolest looking band in the world or just having the coolest looking band pictures taken by the best band photographer in Tampa or whatever area you are in. Band photography in the Tampa area is lacking in coolness. Yes, In order to get really great shots you have to pay for it and i get people all the time asking if i can come down on the price because “we just finished recording our record” You found the money for you record didn’t you? Your image is the second most important thing that sells you. You cant skimp on it. Record labels spend tons on an image for their artist. IMAGE IS EVERYTHING in this world. Why do people pick up a record in in the store?… Because it looks cool! Don’t get a $100 photographer to do crappy pictures of your band. Get some really awesome band photography by someone who knows how to make you look great!

I know what i would want in a band photographer so i can give it to the bands around the world if that’s the way it happens to go. I am striving to become the best band photographer in Tampa first then keep moving out into the WORLD!! Yeah!!

If you are a band in the Tampa, Clearwater, St.Pete area and need really cool band pictures by a really great band photographer give me a call as soon as you can to get on the schedule because we get booked – like – crazy!

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Attention Models, Actors, and Actresses… you need awesome head shots right?

February 2nd, 2010

Good News 12-1 Photography is now offering insane head shots for models, actors, actresses, and corporations in the Tampa Bay area. Reid and I strive on excellence, so naturally we’re striving to be the premiere Tampa head shot photographers. This kind of happened out of nowhere, we took some shots of some people, did a [...]
 

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12-1 Photography is now offering insane head shots for models, actors, actresses, and corporations in the Tampa Bay area. Reid and I strive on excellence, so naturally we’re striving to be the premiere Tampa head shot photographers. This kind of happened out of nowhere, we took some shots of some people, did a little research, and realized that we have a great time just hanging out with people in our home studio in Tampa and getting some awesome head shots of them in the meantime. This doesn’t mean we’re done being awesome wedding photographers, we just have too much fun with head shots to pass it up. It’s a lot of fun focusing on evoking emotion out of people, and trying to get the best looks for their portfolio. We recently spent some time with Victoria in the studio and came out with some great shots. Here’s just a couple pictures. More to come.

Victoria is from the Tampa area and plays in a great cover band named Blistered, of which we happened to photograph as well.. here’s their band pictures. Maybe they can come out to your wedding in Tampa and play for you… maybe?

Anyways, we had a great time doing Victoria’s head shots, she was a lot of fun to work with and was well versed on how to use her eyes to create emotion, which is always important.

So if you’re a model, actor, actress, corporation, or just someone who wants some really nice, stunning portraits remember your NEW premiere Tampa Headshot Photographers, 12-1 Photography.

We’ve got a lot more photos of Victoria that we’ll post soon. Just couldn’t wait to share.

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The cold and the Bold | Jennifer & Bobby

January 26th, 2010

Jennifer & Bobby’s wedding is coming up in February so we needed to get their engagement pictures done really soon. They have been working on their house all year or have been out of town and we haven’t been able to do their pictures. The only day we both had open just happened to be [...]
 

Jennifer & Bobby’s wedding is coming up in February so we needed to get their engagement pictures done really soon. They have been working on their house all year or have been out of town and we haven’t been able to do their pictures. The only day we both had open just happened to be the coldest day in Tampa’s history! I don’t actually know the high for the day but I think it was around – 30 – Thats freakin cold! We all had fun though!

Mine and Matt’s fingers were so numb it was hard to feel the knobs to change camera settings and of-course when you are that cold it’s just funny! Looking at the first picture, you’d never know it was that cold. Jennifer didn’t want all the pictures to be bundled up shots so she decided to brave the cold!

We walked around Ybor for a while, wracking our frozen brains for shots for their engagement session and finally decided on getting hot chocolate at a local shop called the Bunker. The bunker is a really great coffee and cafe place with local art on the walls and a really cool atmosphere that makes you want to stay. If you get a chance while visiting Tampa, go there!

Here’s a few more shots we had the awesomely fun privilege of photographing for this really great couple. Can’t wait for the wedding!

Bobby decided to reenact the way he asked Jennifer out – Pretty freakin funny!

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A hot day | Becky

January 21st, 2010

We photographed some portrait style headshots for Becky back in the summer of 2009. It was stinking HOT! We went out in Ybor city at 8:30 am to beat the heat but it was already 95 degrees. We we spent some time walking around Ybor  shooting pictures and discussing if there were any other places [...]
 

We photographed some portrait style headshots for Becky back in the summer of 2009. It was stinking HOT! We went out in Ybor city at 8:30 am to beat the heat but it was already 95 degrees. We we spent some time walking around Ybor  shooting pictures and discussing if there were any other places in the Tampa bay area she wanted to go. We decided to stay in Ybor and tough out the heat. We did get a few pictures inside a few places. Here’s a few photographs from our really hot day, and if you need a really cool, awesome, great headshot photographer in the Tampa area, come hang out with us at 12-1photography we would love to provide you with the best headshot ever! Yes, thats a plug for us!

We love photographing headshots and portraits! Give a call any time!

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Help our Friend’s family in Haiti | Ron Michel

January 15th, 2010

Our Friend Ron Michel of Universal Music Entertainment in Tampa Florida needs your help. Ron lives here in Tampa around the corner from me! (Reid) His family lives in Haiti in the area that was hit by the earthquake. They have lost everything  and Ron is still waiting to hear of the final conditions. We [...]
 

Our Friend Ron Michel of Universal Music Entertainment in Tampa Florida needs your help. Ron lives here in Tampa around the corner from me! (Reid) His family lives in Haiti in the area that was hit by the earthquake. They have lost everything  and Ron is still waiting to hear of the final conditions. We at 12-1photography in Tampa Florida have partnered with Relevant Church in Ybor city Florida to provide support through donation.

Help us get the word out so we can provide something or this family and their community.

Lets work together to make an Impact!

Please make all donations to Relevantchurch.com through the giving link. MAKE SURE to put – Reid/Haiti – in the instructions/description area by clicking “Add special instructions to merchant” while reviewing your PayPal payment.

If writing a check please make the check payable to Relevant church and in the Subject/For  - section write Reid/haiti

Thanks so much for all your help!

Reid and Matt

call us any time for more information – 813-380-3966

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Totally awesome couple | Heather & Greg

January 6th, 2010

Heather! Greg!The day started at Heather’s parents home on St. Pete beach in the treasure island area. The house was filled with ladies getting ready for the big day and having fun! After all were ready they piled in a limo and headed for the church. Heather and Greg were married in St. Petersburg Florida at [...]
 

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Greg!The day started at Heather’s parents home on St. Pete beach in the treasure island area. The house was filled with ladies getting ready for the big day and having fun! After all were ready they piled in a limo and headed for the church. Heather and Greg were married in St. Petersburg Florida at St. Raphaels Catholic church. There was excitement in the air and lots of emotion. The doors opened and after everyone was at the front Heather and her father appeared in the door. Her father was beaming with joy and Heather was crying all the way down the isle. Greg looked so excited as his new bride came near and gave her the look all grooms give – (Its the I love you, am going to provide for you and our future is going to be great together – look!) as Heather laid he head on her fathers shoulder . This wedding was the sweetest ceremony we have had the privilege to capture. I (Reid) found myself watching and crying half the time. My tears kept blurring my vision through the camera and I was just hoping for a few good focused shots. Luckily I have Matt there for moments like that. I’m sure we don’t both cry at the same time! This was a great day and we really feel so blessed to have been trusted to capture the pictures for such a wonderful wedding. Here’s a few pictures from the wedding and reception.

The reception was held at Gulfport Casino in St. Petersburg.

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Fun Families of Tampa! | von dem Bussche

January 5th, 2010

We had the great opportunity to do some  family photography in the Tampa area for some really great friends of ours, the von dem Bussche’s! Yep its pretty hard to say.  We had a lot of fun running around the neighborhood in Apollo Beach. The kids were awesome and of-course  didn’t want to sit still [...]
 

We had the great opportunity to do some  family photography in the Tampa area for some really great friends of ours, the von dem Bussche’s! Yep its pretty hard to say.  We had a lot of fun running around the neighborhood in Apollo Beach. The kids were awesome and of-course  didn’t want to sit still so we made the best of it and it was great! Tampa has many great places with opportunities for great family photography ya just gotta search em out.

The beach is always great for pictures but sometimes your own neighborhood is really cool too! We love doing lifestyle photography anywhere. Lifestyle family photography is us taking pictures of a family doing their thing ( being a family ) at the place of their choosing and capturing the interaction. Its all the little things – The little look a daughter givers her father when she’s asking for a snack or wants him to swing her around or mom and day trying to keep the kids calm to take a picture. That’s great stuff! Real life! I love it! Don’t try to make something happen, have fun and let life happen as it does!

Here’s a few more pictures from our Awesome Family Lifestyle Photography Photoshoot with the von dem Bussche’s

Thanks a lot Carl & Kristin for letting us hang out with ya!

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Seniors are great | Zack Pearson

December 28th, 2009

About two months ago we were able to photograph some senior portraits for a cool friend of ours, Zack Pearson! YEAH! Funny thing is, I had no idea Zach was a senior. He has such a baby face i couldn’t tell. Sorry Zack….. Zack is graduating from Newsome Highschool this year and wanted to have [...]
 

About two months ago we were able to photograph some senior portraits for a cool friend of ours, Zack Pearson! YEAH! Funny thing is, I had no idea Zach was a senior. He has such a baby face i couldn’t tell. Sorry Zack…..

Zack is graduating from Newsome Highschool this year and wanted to have some really awesome senior pictures that no-one else would have and they had to be great.  He asked me one day if i could pull off a freakin cool look, I said ” are you kidding, heck yeah man!” He said he wanted to do the pictures in Ybor city in Tampa which happens to be a favorite place to shoot for me since it has tons of different backgrounds all in one place. I hadn’t photographed senior portraits there before and thought this is gonna be awesome! I brought some cool lights with soft-boxes and a battery-pack which all happens to really heavy and i threw it all on my photography assistant Matt. Sorry man! We strolled around Ybor for hours and got some of the coolest senior portraits/pictures for Zack. He and his family love them and we couldn’t be happier! Side thought! – Zacks sister Katie just got engaged! We really hope to photograph her engagement and wedding – fingers crossed!

Of course since Zack is a guy he wanted to have a really cool look for all his pictures which means – No Smiling – but i got a few smiles for his momma!

Here’s some of our favorites from Zacks Newsome Highschool Senior portrait photo shoot!

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Here’s a little smirk for his mom. Gettin close to a smile!

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tampa senior portrait picture

Here’s the SMILE! Yeah Zack!

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tampa senior portrait picture

We had a few laughs courtesy of Zack.

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But back to business.

tampa senior portrait picture

tampa senior portrait picture

He did not do this!

tampa senior portrait picture

tampa senior portrait picture

Finished up in classic Ybor style on the roof of a building! So cool.

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We had a great time photographing Zack’s Senior Portraits. Thanks Man!

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i got a blister | Blistered Band

December 23rd, 2009

Matt and I were able to photograph a band in Ybor city which is in the Tampa Bay area. Yes we usually photograph weddings, engagements, cool families and events. We are always doing other shoots and welcomed to opportunity to do this. Now, if we could just got Anberlin or some other band or artist [...]
 

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Matt and I were able to photograph a band in Ybor city which is in the Tampa Bay area. Yes we usually photograph weddings, engagements, cool families and events. We are always doing other shoots and welcomed to opportunity to do this. Now, if we could just got Anberlin or some other band or artist as well that would be great!

Blistered is a local cover band that plays songs at  all types of events and weddings. The reason for this photo shoot was to get some pictures so they could use them for advertising for more upscale events. We had a really great time taking their pictures and hanging out in the Italian Club in Ybor. I had the privilege of bringing my 7 year old son to his first photo shot with dad! He also had a great time carrying his camera around and copying everything i did. If you need a great cover band for any event get Blistered here.

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What’s up with the Rain | Heidi and Matt

December 18th, 2009

We were contacted by this really great couple a few months ago to photograph their engagement and their wedding!  We set the date for the engagement photo’s and went out to shoot at the location where Matt proposed! It was going to be a perfect location to shoot. It started sprinkling a little and we [...]
 

We were contacted by this really great couple a few months ago to photograph their engagement and their wedding!  We set the date for the engagement photo’s and went out to shoot at the location where Matt proposed! It was going to be a perfect location to shoot. It started sprinkling a little and we thought it would be fine. We walked down the boardwalk as the rain got a little heavier, I thought no problem its Florida, It’ll stop in a few min and we’ll be great. It didn’t stop -EVER! It rained extremely hard and we tried to force a few pictures out since we had gone through so much planning to do this.

We did capture this picture which i think is cool.

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Heidi was a little upset with the rain and we agreed to reschedule her engagement shoot after the rainy season.

Its the day of the new engagement shoot and the weather has been great for a while! We decided to do their other engagement pictures at the University of Tampa which is the place for engagement photography. We ran across two or three other photographers that day, all shooting engagement pictures! As soon as we got there it started raining again! It would rain and stop off and on. So we hopped out for some shots when it would stop and back in when it started again. Here are a few shots from the day.

university of tampa engagement picture

university of tampa engagement picture

university of tampa engagement picture

university of tampa engagement picture

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