My name is Dean Santarinala, and I am a 20-something living in the Chicagoland area trying to find my place in the Universe. I have always enjoyed art and drawing, and along the way I picked up a camera and fell in love with photography.
@deanosaur twitter updates: I guess I have the same birthday as Carrie Underwood, Chuck Norris, and Osama Bin Laden. #11 hours ago
After I shot Adam and Laura’s proposal they told me they were interested in doing an engagement session during thanksgiving break. I was very happy to oblige! :-)
He and Laura had a ton of great ideas for photo locations, so I drove out to Marengo / Belvidere and worked my magic for a few hours. Luckily the weather improved from a cloudy and rainy Thanksgiving week to sunny and mild during the weekend. It started to get cold during magic hour, but Adam and Laura were troopers — and we got to take most of the photos we had planned out. Thanks guys!
I’ve been bored at home, tinkering around with some websites, so I decided to change blog themes while I was at it. This should mean slightly larger photos. I also tatt’ed up my macbook pro. Pretty!
I shot Volleyball, Football, and Hockey a few weekends ago. I should’ve tried to get into the basketball game, too. :-P
The hardest part about shooting so much is sorting through everything, choosing the 20 best, processing/editing, and captioning all of them. So time consuming.
I finally got around to using Johnny’s full studio setup last month when Sindy asked me to take her portrait for some Philly scholarship she won. Here it is, I couldn’t get my speedlite to work as a gridded hairlight and trigger the AB800s, so I was stuck with just the two AB monoblocs for key and fill. I got my standard yearbook photo shot, and we took some play ones afterward.
