Welcome to the Bryon DeVore Photography blog. This space is a place for me to keep in touch with clients, post new work and to share bits about how I go about things here with the photography business. I generally post a few photos from each session, but after a few years of keeping this blog, I know that counting on me to be consistent or regular in any way is probably not going to work out well for anyone. I love to hear from visitors so please drop me an e-mail and be sure to come visit me on Facebook!
A big part of my fall each year is photographing high school seniors. These are some of my very favorite jobs. I get to apply my undivided attention on a single subject for an extended amount of time... that just doesn't get to happen for very long with a family session or during a wedding. The result is a much greater variety of images and I get to stretch myself to be more creative than I can in a shorter amount of time. And beyond the photography, spending time with these young adults each fall is an extremely uplifting experience. Every year I am completely impressed by the composure, maturity and poise of these 17 and 18 year olds. It really gives me an optimistic feeling for all of our futures. Anyways, the Ashland High School yearbook photos were due last week and here is a selection of photos from each of the kids I worked with this fall. Thanks to all of you... I really enjoyed meeting you all.
I photograph people. I try to capture moments and fleeting expressions; REAL moments and REAL expressions are always the goal... easy on the "cheese" as the teenagers say. That said, I've come to believe that there is something basically untrue about "capturing" people in an image and that there in-lies the big challenge for a photographer. Real moments and expressions don't stop and can't REALLY be frozen, they are fluid and fleeting... gone before they finish happening. The camera freezes something that wasn't really meant to be stopped. But those unreal stoppages of time can be so beautiful, so emotional... and strangely to me, very, very real. How odd this art of people photography... not so much creating, but capturing, stopping the unstoppable and then surrounding that moment, that expression with the real art of the photograph, the background, the crop, the angle, the color, the parts that can be created. But being there when the moment or expression happens, having your finger on the shutter release at that exact second... that is a form of art as well.