Category Archives: photography

Shootin’ Photos of Some Ladeez

Posted by katie ett on October 25, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Filed under all of my friends are prettier than i am, no i really do love ohio, photography
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Of course the point of my visit to Ohio last week was the Circleville Pumpkin Show,

but I also had the great fortune of setting up photoshoots with my friends Kim and Samantha in celebration of some pretty major moments in their lives.

My best friend Tracey met Kim when they both played flute at THE Ohio State University’s School of Music, and they’ve since started a dinner club together and see each year’s Oscar-nominated films together and go 80s dancing together on Thursday nights. When I agreed to shoot Tracey’s friend Dayna’s wedding next year, Kim asked me to shoot hers, too.

Along with their engagement photos, which aren’t remotely edited yet, I got to provide some new headshots for Kim, who’s a professional flute player and adjunct faculty at a college. Kim recommended the location, and it turned out to be the most perfect place for me to get my Ohio photography sea legs. I think the colors of the fall trees were doing about half of the work for me, but I won’t mind if you give me some of the credit, too.

I’ve known Samantha through Tracey for about half of my life and have loved seeing how Tracey can be so close with two TOTALLY DIFFERENT people. Where Tracey and I were staying home on Friday nights to watch David Bowie movies on repeat and writing letters to Gavin Rossdale, Tracey and Sam were out picking up boys at Arby’s. I couldn’t be happier that she found such a great partner in her husband, Sam, and the two of them were adooooorable this weekend.


Tracey thinks I made Sam look too sultry in this picture, but I love it!

Many thanks to Tracey for introducing me to Kim and Samantha, to Kim for choosing the location, and to Kim and Samantha for making it such a great experience!

And now I’m going to Pittsburgh to see Cassie of Sisters from Different Misters for the second time, to meet Jessica for the first time!, and to help Jessica photograph Cassie’s sister’s wedding. Duuuuuuuuude.

On the Farm in My Print Store

Posted by katie ett on September 27, 2012 – 12:00 pm
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Two new photos up in my Society6 print store!

This was a shot I took in one of my dad’s fields after shelling corn with him for a couple of hours and being attacked by two spiders in the combine. The country is awful. But pretty!

I couldn’t decide which I liked better, so I made one in brown:

Empty Field

And one in blue:

Empty Field

There’s free worldwide shipping through Sunday, so buy early and often! I also made these available as laptop skins and iPhone cases, which I think look pretty cool, if I do say so myself.

(Don’t think my blog is going to be all about promoting my jazz from now on, just mostly.)

Buy My Prints at Society6!

Posted by katie ett on September 12, 2012 – 4:00 pm
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I’ve recently been trying to coerce my blogfriend Lisa of Elembee to use her incredible design skills to create a new Ettible Photography logo for me. And by that, I mean I wrote to her and said, “Please give me some advice about my logo, but do not under any circumstances spend any time making one for me.” And she said, “Okay, cool,” and then promptly started work on the logo of my dreams.

She also encouraged me to join Society6, a website where artists can sell their prints to their adoring public. Mrs. Bachelor Girl and Cassie have both mentioned print-selling to me in the past (god bless you both), but the idea of setting up an Etsy store and printing the photos myself and shipping them out myself overwhelmed me. Well, Society6 prints on-demand and then ships to your customers for you, so I basically just have to post my photos and watch the dollahs roll in.

So, I have a Society6 store, which I’m going to link you to now with this giant logo:

I had some affliction when it came to pricing, because I assume my customer base is my friends, and I want to charge y’all, like, a buck-ninety-five. But Society6 has a base price of a million dollars per print plus a percentage of whatever I set my price as, so I have to charge a million and a half dollars just to make a cent. My much more cutthroat co-workers informed me that I should leave you all in the dust and aim for a clientele full of eccentric billionaires, so I tried for a middle ground that’s affordable for you but will still let non-you people know that I consider myself legit.

Oh, gosh, just talking about this is making me feel dirty.

Anyway, I’m slowly filling my store, so keep watching it if you’re in the market for an Ettible Photography original. And now through September 16th, you can get FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING on any order of my prints using this link.

My prints. Not anyone else’s. Don’t look around the rest of the site.

Thank you for your support, pals!

NYC Fashion Week After-Party with The Set NYC

Posted by katie ett on September 11, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Filed under living in new york is neat, par-tay, photography
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Well, it’s the eleventh anniversary of those tragic events that took place on 9/11, and I’ve been a semi-proud New Yorker for more than seven years now, so . . . let’s talk about models!

Thanks to my friend Jeff of the almost-existent J Roll Photography, I met the man behind Talent & Skills, who introduced me to the guys at The Set NYC, who asked me to photograph their NYC Fashion Week after-party/benefit last Friday night.

And I readily agreed, not only because I’ve made awesome connections by shooting events with these guys but also because I always shoot with a diffused bounce flash and really wanted to try out some super-harsh nightclub straight flash and some light trails. I’m still not sure how I feel about it any of it, so you’ll have to let me know what you think. Constructively, not bitchily. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

The venue:

NYC Fashion Week 2012 After-Party

The hostess, Jamie Otis of “The Bachelor”, who was stunning and so friendly:

NYC Fashion Week 2012 After-Party

Guests like David Good, also of “The Bachelor” and also friendly:

NYC Fashion Week 2012 After-Party

A bunch of super-gorgeous models and designers:

NYC Fashion Week 2012 After-Party
creepy light trails!

NYC Fashion Week 2012 After-Party

NYC Fashion Week 2012 After-Party

A frolicking good time:

NYC Fashion Week 2012 After-Party

The entire set can be seen on my Ettible Photography site here!