WENDY HURST PORTRAIT

Brittany Walker Manwill is a hair and makeup artist I met on the stormy set of a water session during the summer. She owns and operates Enchante International Salon in Holladay, Utah and mentioned she would love some headshots of herself and her work on location sometime. Savanna Mangum, model; Brittany on the right Vanity-Fair inspired headshots immediately flashed in my head.  Now if you happen to browse her waiting room, and if you happen to face away from the window, that bronze and gold painted wall before you might look familiar. Currently that wall looks more awesome than any portable backdrop I own.  I'm going back--and you're totally invited! #youneedaheadshot wendyhurstportrait.com I lit the studio shots with an octagonal softbox at camera right. Most captured at f4.5 at 1/160s. An assistant fanned the female models with my reflector from camera left, which is why it was so hard to keep a straight face... Models: David, Hunter, Kely, a

If you're in the fence about scheduling a portrait session for yourself, I just updated my website with some new options that could work for you. wendyhurstportrait.com What's right for you? That's the first question on my mind when I meet a client. Most encounters people have with a camera fall into two categories, casual or formal. CASUAL STUFF: Like cell phone cameras taking snapshots of things as they happen FORMAL STUFF: Family portraits, engagements, weddings, etc. You, like many before you, may also associate the word "formal" with "expensive"--and, therefore, rare. Something saved for special occasions to be celebrated. An event of sorts. But consider this:  formal  can also simply mean "official".  Celebrations don't have to be rare. Taking time to create a memory for others is important--just as important as creating one for yourself. Designing a portrait session that's right for you is a key part of transfo

The Desert Little Sahara Sand Dunes are a a desert left behind when Lake Bonneville, an outrageously large and ancient lake that shrank down into the Great Salt Lake over however many years it takes for giant lakes to shrink, dried up. Seriously. In the middle of our sort-of lush, sagebrush landscape is a huge pile of super fine sand like that found in the Sahara Desert. If you just Googled it, you probably found some satellite imagery in addition to the images here. I promise that experiencing it in person is the only way to appreciate how strangely beautiful it is to exist in a place seemingly between worlds. Cue corsets and fabrics. If you've followed my photography for long enough you might recognize the gray skirt as the one used in  this windstorm at the Utah State Capitol  back in 2015. The several yards of lavender purple fabric is also a repeated character  last worn by a model  with poetic cursive scrolled on her arm. I'm not afraid to reuse fabrics in the