With my career as a fake pilot now behind me, I’ve turned my attention back to the serious pursuit of photography. In the past six or eight weeks, while finishing up my gig with Raytheon, I’ve shot NCAA Women’s basketball, engagement photos, some senior pictures, an Eagle Scout ceremony, a performance poet, a bit of soccer and a concert. I have plenty to blog about, so let’s get started, eh?

I shot some images of a local high school senior named Jack. He’s one of the funniest, most light-hearted young men you will ever meet, and I’m lucky enough to count him among my many cousins.

ISO: 50 • Aperture: 5.6 • Shutter: 1/200

I have an assistant holding a bare flash camera left, and another holding a reflector camera right.

ISO: 100 • Aperture: 9 • Shutter: 1/200

This has the same lighting setup, but the flash and reflector had switched places.

This last one was the very last image we shot that day. It was very much last-second, shot totally available light, and is probably my favorite of all of the images.

ISO: 100 • Aperture: 3.5 • Shutter: 1/250

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For those of you who are new to these parts, let me give you a brief introduction to the redesigned audreydodgen.com.

I’ve been fortunate, in the past year, to really narrow my focus professionally on editorial and commercial work, particularly editorial portraiture. I’ve still been able to do some documentary and news photography, but it has been really wonderful to work so often in the areas in which I prefer to specialize.

Since August I’ve been working part time for Raytheon Technical Services at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City, doing simulations with Air Traffic Control students. When that ends at the end of April, I’ll be returning to full time freelance photography, focused on building my commercial and editorial client base. That will probably necessitate a move away from Oklahoma, but that’s a bridge I’ll cross when it comes and not before. For now, I’m quite happy being an Oklahoma-based editorial photographer.

So, that’s what’s new here. Please check out my new work, most of which you’ll find HERE. Keep looking to the blog for site updates and photos.

Today, I’ll leave you with this image, my great-grandmother, on the occasion of her 101st birthday (today).

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Went to the zoo with some of my cousins. The zoo is one of my favorite places in the whole city.

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One of the neat things about shooting weddings of friends, like the one in the post below, is that I run into other friends while I’m there. Here’s a couple of fun shots while we were hanging around after the festvities.

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I shot a wedding over the weekend which had one very special twist: the groom is my father. Here’s a few shots from Saturday.

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The Marine in the first two photographs is my dear friend Beau. He and his family graciously allowed me to photograph the graveside service for their uncle, who was himself a retired Marine.

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Welcome to the world, little one. We’ve been waiting.

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Some shots of Jonah, using the new octabox which arrived today. I’ll be using this setup to shoot a bridal portrait Thursday and wanted to have a little fun with it. I’ve also changed the format of multi-image posts a bit, to use thumbnails. Let me know which way you prefer.

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