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Stephen Jackson

About Stephen Jackson Photography

When it comes to weddings, dedication to capturing your most precious moments and memories in a journalistic and artistic fashion is top priority, and Stephen Jackson Photography makes every effort to create photos that will be cherished for years to come.

Portraiture great and small, from senior portraits to artist press packages, Stephen Jackson Photography has the creative and unique style that is hard to find elsewhere.

From Atlanta to Jacksonville, east coast to west coast, and everywhere in between, Stephen Jackson Photography is ready to service your photography needs.

Thank You, creativeLIVE! [Education]

Sunday, August 29th, 2010   |   Posted in Personal

Just as a short thank you, I’d like to express my deep­est grat­i­tude to Chase Jarvis and the whole cre­ative­LIVE team for bring­ing FREE, qual­ity edu­ca­tion to the masses. If you’ve never heard of cre­ative­LIVE, go check them out at http://www.creativelive.com/ — it’ll be worth your time.

For the past 5 days, for those who tuned in for the live broad­cast, view­ers were treated to a full course by Jas­mine Star, one of the nations’s top 10 wed­dings pho­tog­ra­phers. Not only did she share insight, expe­ri­ence, and advice on start­ing and man­ag­ing your own pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness, she also took peo­ple LIVE behind-the-scenes at a REAL WEDDING so the whole world could truly see how a pro­fes­sional works.

Although free to view live, if you buy the course in the next three hours, you can still find the course for $99 as a down­load — after that, the price goes up to $149. How­ever, this course is EASILY worth more than $1000, as it con­tains valu­able infor­ma­tion only usu­ally shared at work­shops cost­ing a min­i­mum of $1500.

While you’re there, I also HIGHLY rec­om­mend buy­ing Zack Arias’s stu­dio pho­tog­ra­phy course — he does a stel­lar job at teach­ing, and I’d put money on it that there’s no bet­ter teacher cur­rently lead­ing stu­dents down the path to become com­pe­tent, qual­ity edi­to­r­ial and flash pho­tog­ra­phers. Even Jas­mine Star has taken Zack’s work­shop — it’s that good!

I’m always excited to learn, and I can’t thank cre­ative­LIVE enough for what you do — keep it up! We need lead­ers like you to bring qual­ity edu­ca­tion to the masses.

The Shot That Got Me Hooked [Weddings]

Sunday, August 29th, 2010   |   Posted in Personal, Weddings

It’s felt like a wild ride up to this point. In the span of three years, I’ve gone from being a sin­gle col­lege stu­dent liv­ing in an apart­ment with a part-time job and aspi­ra­tions of one day being a psy­chol­o­gist to being a mar­ried col­lege grad liv­ing in his own house with his own busi­ness. I’ve decided that I have to stop assum­ing I can pre­dict my future, because every time I do, it seems to change.

But what derailed my straight path to psy­ch­dom, you might ask. Well — there’s tech­ni­cally a short ver­sion to this tale, but I like story time.

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St. Augustine Session and A Painless Shoulder! [Bridal]

Monday, June 14th, 2010   |   Posted in Sessions, Weddings

Guess whose shoul­der is back up and run­ning?! MINE! Huzzah!

Good golly gosh, I’ve been in more pain than I’d like to admit for the past few months. A small injury at work led to a big­ger injury which led to my shoul­der stomp­ing all over my job and sched­ule for what seemed like for­ever. Enter in Dr. Sander­lin, a Val­dosta ortho­pe­dic doc­tor, and BAM!, shoul­der fixed.

Hon­estly, I still need to take it slow for the next week or two, but after that, full sys­tems a-gogo.

As an update on the more pho­to­graphic side, I’m cur­rently build­ing a set for my white wall and stu­dio look. Stay tuned — it’s going to be amaz­ing. Speak­ing of which, if you want to par­tic­i­pate in the stu­dio expe­ri­ence, get some great looks, and have a good time, let me know!

As far as what the whole world that didn’t attend missed, Zack Arias held a three day work­shop at cre­ative­LIVE for $FREE.99! If you think you want to be a pho­tog, or you want to learn more, or if you just want to see a man and his craft meld so white seam­lessly (rimshot!), hop on over to creativeLIVE.com and buy his work­shop. AMAZING.

Now, with­out fur­ther adieu, I’m going to stop bab­bling and show y’all the bridal ses­sion! Enjoy!

A Cordele Wedding — Natalie and Ben

Monday, May 24th, 2010   |   Posted in Weddings

I’ve been very excited about these images for a while. I had the oppor­tu­nity to shoot with Lindsi Jones on May 10th in Cordele, GA as a sec­ond shooter and loved every sec­ond of it.

Here are some of my favorites — and make sure to take a look at Lindsi’s blog if you’d like to see more!

As a side note, my lack of post­ing has a rea­son behind it — I’m still recov­er­ing from a recent injury. But don’t fret! The sec­ond I’m 100%, pho­tos will be processed, posts will be made, and pic­tures will be taken. In the mean­time, still con­tact me if you need my ser­vices. Recov­er­ing or not, my cal­en­dar seems to get crowded fast, so let me know dates and times as soon as you know them!

Look out for my Florida expe­di­tion and a bit of ran­dom truck wreck­age next!

3 Shoots, 2 Days — Jacksonville and St. Augustine [Preview]

Monday, April 19th, 2010   |   Posted in Sessions, Weddings

I’ve barely even started edit­ing the shoots from this past week­end. Breaks between shoots were used for eat­ing or sleep­ing, so no time to get a head start. But just to hold every­one over, I’ve got a quick pre­view for ya. I’m not even fin­ished edit­ing these, but hey, you guys don’t care about that, right?

In order of appear­ance: one from Nichole’s ses­sion, one from Brittany’s, and two from Andi’s bridal shoot in St. Augustine.

 

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