Shooting for fun - The Itallian Ponies(Ferrari's)

308 GTB/GTS Quattrovalvole

As a Photographer, I spend a lot of time prepping for a photo session, executing said photo session, editing and then delivering said session. Every now and again it becomes about getting out for yourself.
On Sunday I had that opportunity, no plan, just a phone call from a friend saying “hey there are about 20 Ferrari’s down here on the square.” If there is two things I love in this world it is photography and cars mainly classic cars, American Muscle but also a special place in my heart for something that was created by Enzo Ferrari. The lines on those cars are simply amazing its like a work of art or it like watching a surfer carve his way down a massive wave or a snowboarder slice down a freshly snow covered mountain. .
You maybe asking yourself okay Wisconsin Boy why the Ferrari? I born in the mid 80’s and remember in the late 80’s and early 90’s watching Magnum PI with my dad and I always thought the 308 GTB/GTS was a neatest looking car, how can you not fall in love with something like that. Also hey they happened to have one there yesterday with the correct license plate.

Dino 246 GT

There was, at least to me a lesser known Ferrari there the Dino 246 GT I had never seen one but that was a neat find. The one thing the owner told me was until recently you could pick them up fairly cheap becasue they weren’t a highly sought after car.
Fun little fact about this car is even though it was made by Ferrari it was sold under the name Dino. It came into existance in the late 50’s because of the creation of a smaller V6 engine. The name Dino was used on these cars from 67 to 78 when it was dropped for the full Ferrari name. Also the Dino was semi created by Ferrari to offer a low cost sports car that normal person could afford.
While most of Ferrari’s there were newer ones and some that just rolled off the tine this year but it was cool just to look at them. The owners most of them out of Illinois were some of the nicest car enthusiasts I have ever met. Thanks for passing through town and stopping to have lunch at The East Troy Brewery it gave a lot of small town people a chance to look at some really nice car.s

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Opening under Coivd-19 in Wisconsin

As of today(2020/05/14,) well technically yesterday afternoon May, Vagabond Photography can start taking clients again. It feels to good to be able to start providing services again to you our valued customers. While I understand it may not be ideal, here is the tentative plan moving forward for how I am going to be conducting business.

1. Photos done by Vagabond Photography will still remain on location as I have always been an on location photography service. I have some great locations picked out and are ready to go.

2. Consultations for weddings, family/senior/modeling/headshot portraits, aerial and event photography will be done over the phone/email for a just a little while longer. If the conditions are agreed upon by both parties a PDF contract will be email to you to be signed electronically or to be printed and mailed back. I’ve always been a hand shake type of person, two parities agree to the terms shake on it, sign the document and then its off to the races, but I understand the handshake will have to wait for a while long.

3. During the portrait sessions I will do my directing from a distance of how I would like you to be posed. Normally, I like to be a little closer to make some of those very fine tweaks but I know for the safety of our clients this is best for the time being. As for clothing options that will all be discussed prior to the session.

4. Viewing and ordering of prints will be done through our websites client's galley as opposed to our normal in person sales. I can also do a viewing over the phone and internet in case there is a few alterations you would like to have made to an individual photo. I have with my client gallery services to see the same thing at the same time as you so we both can be looking at the same image and be on the same page.

5. As for payment I'll be doing Paypal or Check, for the time being I won't be taking cash. I am also still trying to figure out though my website provider how to set up credit card for services rendered instead of per-photo and once I get that figured out as a viable option, this will be an option as well.

I look forward to being your photographer again and getting back to providing you the best services I can.

Tim Gumz
Vagabond Photography
05/14/2020

Photos you should ask to see before booking your wedding

     When it comes to weddings you want to know your photographer is the best at what they do. When you sit down and meet with them, you see all the previously perfectly posed photos that could soon be of you and your spouse to be.

Discovering Grand Dad’s Dog Tags

     Though, what is it a photographer didn’t show you during the meeting and maybe something you should ask them to show you? Here’s what it is, during the meeting they rarely ever show you the party photos, the cake cutting(maybe), and the candid’s that comprise around 60 to 70 percent of the what is photographed on you and your loved one’s wedding day.

     Now, you may be asking yourself, Tim, seriously, why are you telling us to ask photographers to show us another person’s wedding candid’s?

    Here’s the reasoning behind it. Posed photos are great, they sell really well as images that will adorn your walls for a very long time to come. As time has passed, from the wedding day to the first showing, I find loved ones spend more time looking at the candid’s and remembering those once in a life time moments with friends and family that aren’t staged and try to figure out how to work them into albums and as small mementos.

     I will admit, at first, if a potential client came to me and said those posed photos are nice but show me some candid’s. I would have probably freaked out in the beginning or even recently because I would be worried about what they are looking for in those. Now, I understand they want to be able to see if us as their photographer can capture those special intimate moments with friends and family that weren’t stages and happened by chance. Those moments that come and go as quickly as the wedding day does.

Blink first you lose.

     This may not be something that you would of thought to ask of your photographer but I encourage you too. As a client I would want to know if they possibly got the shot of the bride and brother noticing that grand dads dog tags were on memorial display which were just added by the husband mere moments before they walked in the room. Or that bride and her best friend were having a stair down right before they busted out so weird hillbilly dance on the back of an old farm delivery truck while laughing uncontrollably. Those are the memories you also want to know your photographer can capture and save for a lifetime.

Family moments

     With the two short scenarios from above think back to a close friends or family members wedding that you attended and then later were at their house and ended up looking through their album or box of wedding photos. Chances are you looked at the posed photos but you held on looking at that candid moment photo or page just a little bit longer and relived it and just maybe busted out laughing or started to tear up.

     Posed and candid photos have the power to relieve special moments in your lifetime make sure you have a photographer that can do both.