Patrick Hall was born in Charleston, SC and has lived in Alaska, Alabama, and Tennessee. After graduating from college in 2004, Patrick traveled throughout the southeast before calling Charleston home in 2006.
During the first 2 years in Charleston, Patrick spent most of his time learning how to craft interesting photos with both wedding professionals and lifestyle photographers. It was during this time the idea to share his newly learned talents with young couples became Patrick's primary goal.
Today Patrick works full time as a commercial wedding photographer in Charleston, SC and enjoys shooting extreme sports, fashion, and commercial images during any freetime he may have left :)
Well I am very excited to finally be able to share my latest project with everyone. Fstoppers is a joint venture between me and my good friend Lee Morris of www.rlmorris.com that basically features behind the scenes videos of creative professionals as they work on their current projects. The idea was first thought up during a flight heading from Frankfurt Germany to Madrid Spain. We had just finished up a destination wedding in Germany and decided to take a little vacation to Spain with our photo assistants. During that flight the idea of being able to goto one localized website to watch high quality videos of other photographers working really hit us. We love Youtube, Vimeo, and Facebook but none of those sites really captured the simple idea we had. It has taken a good while to finally have the ability to start this website but now that our cameras can take high definition video and we have learned our way around the new video editing programs the whole project has really come together.
It’s a bit scary to think how much work it could require to keep a site like this current with new videos and features so we have decided to make Fstoppers more of a community rather than just a site run by Lee and I. If you are a photographer and would like to contribute a video, contact us at contactfstoppers@gmail.com or send us a message through www.fstoppers.com
Here are a few of the most recent videos we have produced. We have some really exciting ones coming up that will be in completely different fields of photography than what is currently online.
Tom Yu is a good friend of mine who will be hitting the Charleston Fashion Week runways on March 16th, 2010. We teamed up together to knock out some commercial catalog styles featuring designs from Alexa Castillo out of San Francisco. I set up a little challenge by only allowing myself one camera, one lens, and no lighting for this shoot. Sometimes it’s good practice to get back to the basics and really work on composition and environment. I know many photographers who get wrapped up in the huge production of their shoots and often neglect the big picture details.
If you have never attended CFW I strongly urge you to grab your tickets now. It’s one of the most fun events in all of Charleston, and each year the production grows 10 fold. Also many events are scheduled as fund raisers for local charities such as the MUSC Children’s Hospital. And if you are fashion handicapped like me, maybe you can brush up on the latest trends ha. Last year was simply amazing; I can’t wait to see what is in store this year!
Brent and Blair are a really cool couple from Charlotte North Carolina. I met with them about their wedding photography a few weeks ago and we hit it off really well. This weekend they were in Charleston to make a few final decisions about their wedding on Kiawah Island so it was the perfect time to schedule their engagement session. We got really lucky with one of the best days we’ve had in Charleston this year, lucky enough for their labradoodle Ford to make an appearance. The images turned out great so I figured I’d share a few with everyone. I find that couples like to steal images for their facebook profiles as soon as they are posted online so I’m going to start updating my blog as soon as I can I know everyone is anxious to see their photos and who can blame them? These are a few of my favorite shots from the charleston engagement session; enjoy!
Good news today: my new commercial photography site has officially launched! Over the last year I have been working on a lot of interesting projects that are anything but wedding related. I now finally have a home for all my commercial and editorial work over at www.charlestoncommercialphoto.com . Of course can also reach my commercial site up on the top toolbar of this blog as well as through www.patrickhallphotography.com . Check it out if you have a second. I really enjoy the larger productions associated with commercial photography; it keeps you on your toes creatively. Charleston’s fashion scene is also growing thanks to the good folks over at Charleston Magazine and Charleston Fashion Week so I am sure you will see more fashion editorial work in the future as well. Here are a few images currently featured on the site.
One thing I want to start doing on my blog time to time is showcase other great talented photographers around Charleston, South Carolina and other places I get to travel. I am working on a future project with a handful of other amazingly talented photographers that is going to promote other professionals in a way you may not have seen before….more info on that very soon It is really going to amaze you to see what other people do for a living!
In the meantime, I thought I would plug a great team of photographers over at www.Charlestonfamilyphotos.com who take some amazing photographs of families, children, and babies. I came across their charleston family photography website a few months ago and promised to give them a shout out on my blog when I finally got my blog up and running. Well that time has come. If you are looking for a beach photoshoot at Kiawah Island, Seabrook Island, Folly Beach, Isle of Palms, Sullivan’s Island, or just around your house or in your backyard, check these guys out! I think capturing candid moments at weddings can be tough; I do not think weddings hold a candle to photographing children. After all, they move much faster than most of you 20 and 30 somethings….at least I’ve been told they do ha!
I got a call from Kayla who found out about my photography through her friend Jamie whose wedding I shot a few years ago. She and her fiance Ryan are having a fabulous island destination wedding but really wanted their engagement photos taken in Charleston. With a crazy weekend of overcast weather and isolated thunderstorms, the short engagement session went really well as the sun started peeking out from behind all the clouds. Usually it’s pretty rare that nasty weather sticks around Charleston for long which is a good thing to remember when planning any outdoor wedding or photoshoot. Anyways, they wanted some classic Charleston charm in their images so we walked around downtown through the cobblestone streets and past the colonial homes. Some of my favorite images were taken at the White Point Gardens park near the Battery. Kayla and Ryan also wanted a few images near the marina so we finished the short photo session at the Lockwood Marina. The weather was so nice today and being around the boats got my wakeboard hunger stirring. Soon, very soon
I received an email the other day from a friend back in Alabama telling me they saw some of my photos in Alabama Weddings Magazine. I shoot weddings all over the southeast and shot a few weddings in Alabama last year but when you live in Charleston you do not always get to see your work featured in magazines outside your region. Luckily I was able to get my hands on a copy of the current 2010 issue of Alabama Weddings, and I saw a few images I took for Erin and John Tomberlin during their Tuscaloosa wedding…home of the Alabama Crimson Tide! Erin and John flew me down to Orlando, Florida earlier in the spring of 2009 to take engagement photos of them before they were to get married in the fall. Erin and John are a great couple, and it’s great to see their wedding photos published in a regional magazine like Alabama Weddings. If you are in the area, be sure to pick up a copy and check out their story starting on page 240!
With so much attention on the tragic situation in Haiti, I thought it would be a great time to share with you an amazing outreach group that is having a huge impact on Haitian lives during this horrible event. Water Missions is an outreach group which provides sustainable water solutions for people in places with contaminated water. I first learned of their efforts through my local church at Seacoast here in Mount Pleasant. Before the earthquake in Haiti, Seacoast and Water Missions were working closely with African countries to help purify water in remote places as well as in highly populated areas in which local water was too polluted to drink. Since the devastation in the Caribbean, much of the Seacoast relief effort has shifted to our neighbors in Haiti. If you’ve watched any of the coverage on television, it’s quite easy to see how the basic need for clean drinking water has become one of the pillars in helping the local people get back on their feet. When I first learned about Water Missions and saw the amazing water purifying apparatuses they had engineered, I really felt the need to give to this charity to help those in need. It’s really quite a humbling experience when you are reminded just how many people world wide are not blessed with such a common necessity as clean drinking water. I know a lot of you are already donating to the Red Cross or other charities but if you have any extra to give or have not yet given anything, please check out their website and consider reaching out to a struggling country in our own backyard.
Check out this video from Water Missions….I apologize in advance for the actor; hopefully you can see past his enthusiasm
I know everyone is anxious to see their photos and who can blame them? These are a few of my favorite shots from the charleston engagement session; enjoy!
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