Paulo Jordao Photography - BLOG

One of the best feedback that a Photographer can have of his art work is when he or she enters his or her work in a Print Competition.

Last Week, PPGF (a South Florida guild for professional photographers) hosted their Second 2010 Print Competition. This time we had our print competition together with the Palm Beaches Guild.

It was a great night with so many great images.

I was planing to enter four of my prints on this competition, but few weeks ago the external hard drive where I save my files crashed. I was lucky enough for having saved 2 of my images in another drive 2 months ago, so I could show them to another photographer friend of my.

Before I show you the images, I want to take this time to thank this photographer, friend of mine, Julie Hughes. Two months ago she came from her Professional Guild in Palm Beach to help our guild members in how to improve our chances in print competitions. Thanks!!!

Here are the results …

This print won 1st Prize for Portrait,

and this one won 1st Prize for Pictorial Portrait, 1st Prize Over All, and also Best in Show…

I know I have a long way to go until I can run my pictures in a national level, but I am getting there.

Paulo Jordao

Hi Everyone, this is Paulo Jordao. Welcome to another great WorldWide Photowalk.

If you noticed, I’ve just posted my Photo Walk Location today - 3 days before the walk.

I’ve organized 4 Photowalks on my own and helped Scott on his 2008 and 2009 Worldwide Photo Walk. I’ve always set up my walk with 5 to 8 weeks in advance, and one thing that I’ve learned is that all my other Photo walks, I had to turn people down because our sign up list got full on the 2 first days (6 weeks before the walk) and at the end some people that signed up wouldn’t show up because they had other plans.

I have to agree that a good location is very important to a successful Photowalk, but the most important thing in a Photo Walk is the GROUP and its leader.

This Photowalk will start at 9:30am at South Beach Park (A1A - Seabreeze Blvd. - couple blocks south of Las Olas Blvd) and end around 11:00am.

We will walk on the east side of the street (Side walk and Beach) walking north on A1A.

After few blocks we will cross A1A, walking back on the west side of the street until we find a nice place to sit down and have some drinks and or food.

It is very hot outside, so… don’t bring heavy gear - One camera and a good lens are more than enough

Please… Only sign up if you are sure you’re coming.

Let’s have some fun!!!

Sign Up Here: http://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/fort-lauderdale-fl-united-states-2/

Upload your best images here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1434839@N25/

Few years ago I joined a GROUP of Videographers here in Broward (SFPVA - South Florida Professional Video Artist Association). We have our meetings every third Wednesday of the month at 1700 NW 66 Ave  Suite 100 Plantation, FL 33313.I have to say, once again, that that I am impressed with our president (Danny). He always works extra hard to make sure that every month we have more and more Professional Videographers (VIDEO ARTIST) coming to our meetings.

This week we had a group of more than 40 people that came to watch Ray Roman’s Presentation… He did an amazing job with his presentation and answering all the questions. Ray is one of the many talented Video Artists living here in South Florida, and it was a pleasure to have him there with us.

I also promised everybody that I would post some of the images that I shot of our meeting.

Thanks, everybody…

 http://www.paulojordao.com

It’s not a secret how much I love to photograph weddings and how happy the bride and groom look at their special day. But, what does happen to that couple after few years of marriage?

This week, I had the pleasure to be the photographer of Arif and Parveen 20th Anniversary. It was amazing to see how happy they were at he party…, I felt like I was shooting their wedding.

They celebrated their 20th anniversary at Bombay Grill (Indian Restaurant - 4465 North University Dr. Lauderhill, FL 33351) with their family and friends.

The owner of Bombay Grill, Paul Rungta, is an amazing person.  He did a great job in arranging the new banquet hall to host the Anniversary Party for Arif and Parveen.  Mr. Rungta made sure the food was excellent.

The DJ, Zafar Mithavayani, made the whole event very entertaining.  He played Indian music and everyone had a great time dancing.

If you want to check all the images from their Anniversary, CLICK HERE.

Congratulations Arif and Parveen!

Most of people know me as Wedding and Portrait Photographer, but I also have Bachelor in Physical Education and Master Degree in Sports and Training.

As a parent of a 6 years old boy and as a soccer coach, I want my son to keep practicing soccer during the summer vacation.

Some parents have asked me if I would coach their child too, and I thought it would be a great idea if we could get together and practice at least once a week.

Our training sessions will be held every Wednesday from 5:30pm to 7:00pm (June, July and August - City of Hollywood, Florida).

CLICK HERE for more details.

Here is the video for our last week Trash the Dress Workshop and Photoshoot. I hope you like it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtaWn9hzWUM

Hi, my name is Paulo Jordao - http://www.paulojordao.com, and I am a international Photographer (Weddings and Fine Art Portraits) living in South Florida.

Last Sunday I had an amazing experience with one of my Workshops “Trash the Dress - Light and Location”, for Photographers from Miami - Fort lauderdale - Palm Beaches.

I had checked the location twice before I started marketing this Workshop. It is was a beautiful small park just south of Fort Lauderdale International Airport.

For this Workshop, I Had 19 Photographers, 12 models and 4 Makeup Artists - I also want to enjoy this post to thank all them for their amazing professionalism and beautiful job.

We had 3″ of rain that afternoon and most of people would think that we would not have the courage to go ahead with our schedule, but I am glad we did.

Here are few images of that day, let me know what you think.

Paulo Jordao

If you are a photographer looking to distance yourself from the competition and boring everyday images, you need to keep your mind and eyes opened for opportunities to make some amazing and unique images.

Here is a photography workshop coming up to Fort Lauderdale - Miami area on April 18th; “TRASH the DRESS - Light and Location”

Here are some images from my previous sessions…

I Hope to see you there…

Paulo Jordao

http://www.paulojordao.com

One of the best feedback that a Photographer can have of his art work is when he or she enters his or her work in a Print Competition.

Yesterday night PPGF hosted their first 2010 Print Competition. It was a great event and I was glad to get a lot of good advice from the Judges.

I entered four of my prints on this competition, and I am verry hapy with the results:

- 1st Place in “Pictorial Portrait”

- 1st Place in “Portrait”

- 2nd Place in “Social function”

This week I had the honor shooting a family portrait session at Jaime Camara Jr. and Maria Alice’s ranch (an amazing place with features more impressive than most houses that I know). Jaime and Maria Alice are one the most respected couples of the State of Goias and Brazil.

I started the family portrait session at 5:00 pm, and shot until their son lost interest helping me. LOL! But, I had more than 90 minutes with Marcelo, Fernanda and their son, Francisco, and we had so many great shots that it was hard to select only few images to post here.

After the session, I stayed there to shoot  Larissa’s birthday party (Jaime and Maria Alice’s daughter). Larissa, Juliano (her husband) and Felipe (her son) are a great example of a beautiful Brazilian family.

It was a very selective party for her family and closest friends, and everybody were very casual and friendly.

I want to enjoy this post to thank Larissa for having me at her wonderful birthday, and also congratulate her on her pregnancy.

Since I couldn’t bring all my gear from USA to Brazil, I did my best to work with as much available light as possible.

Here are few samples of that day…

Yesterday I had the honor of being the photographer for Zachary’s first birthday.

Here are some reason for that:

1. I love photography
2. I love to photograph beautiful people
3. great food
4. do I need to mention about money??? LOL

But when I said that it was an honor to be the photographer for Zachary’s first birthday, is because a little more than  one year ago, I had the pleasure to photograph one the most beautiful Pregnancy Session that any photographer could wish for, Zachary’s Mom - Ana (Check here her Pregnancy Session)

Back to the birthday party…; it was a party for family and closest friends and even Elmo was there to help entertaining the kids.

Ana asked me to have some Professional Portrait done at the party with her family and guests, so I brought two of my studio lights + a 12′ x 25′ backdrop to have everybody looking their best.

I am still editing the images and in one or two days all the images will be posted on this link - CLICK HERE (PAGE ALREADY ONLINE) -, but since I promised everybody that I would post a Blog with the link, so they could look all the images, I wanted at least show one of the images that I shot there:

Once again, I want to thank everybody form Zachary’s birthday party for for the great time.

Sincerely,

Paulo Jordao (http://www.paulopics.com)

Here is one of my published articles:

You have planed carefully for months and months all the details of this special day that is your Wedding. You booked the church and the reception place; you found your perfect dress and the most gorgeous flowers, you selected the food and drink list, hired a DJ and a Photographer.

The stress of something going wrong at the last minute is not small, but on this article I want to teach you how to avoid at least one of them: The wedding Photography Fiasco.

Let start from the beginning…

1- Before you hire a Wedding Photographer, be sure that he/she is a specialist in Wedding Photography, and not just another photographer that shoots everything, including some weddings.

2- Start doing an Internet search on Google or Yahoo to find few Wedding Photographers not to far from where you live.

3- Look for samples, and testimonials on the Photographer’s Webpage to be sure that you like his/her work and that few other clients also liked him/her.

4- Before you meet the Photographer, it is a good idea to call him/her to be sure that the date is still available and to talk about your budget and what would be included in your Photography Package.

5- When signing the contract, check all the little details and don’t be afraid of asking for further explanations. On your contract, should say all the information about your wedding like; location, date, what time the photographer should be there and what time he/she would end his work time, what kind of album (pages, quality, size, etc) and when you would get it.

No matter how good written the contract is, you just have to trust that you did your best and that nothing wrong is going to happen.

here is a Video Slide Show of the Pregnancy Photo Shoot that I did last week.

I hope you enjoy it.

Here is a Flickr group, so everybody can check and upload images from our 2nd Workdwide Photowalk (whole world):

http://www.flickr.com/groups/skphoto/

and our Flickr group from Fort Lauderdale:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1180664@N23/

I want to thank Scott Kelby for trusting me again to lead the 2009 Fort Lauderdale Worldwide Photowalk.

We had a great group with a lot of new faces.

Our group start the Photowalk on Las Olas Blvd., in front of Starbucks (2 blocks east of Las Olas Riverfront) and walked east for the total length of 1 mile.

At the end we stopped by Mangos to some drinks and lunch.

If you were part of our group, here is the link (flickr)so you can download your pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1180664@N23/

You need to sign-up and upload your images to your own account, and after that you just send them to the group.

If you have any problem, or need any help, leave a comment and I can try to help you.