BIG NEWS

This blog hasn't been updated in a while. That's because I've been working on a website set up to house all my photography and blog! You can find the site at www.charlieroch.com I'm slowly adding photos from the past few months of shoots and blog posts. Going forward, all my new material will be there. Thanks for checking out my work! -Charlie

New Camera Time!

Engagement: Ryan & Shannon

My sister introduced me to this couple and we scheduled an engagement shoot for a Sunday night. We started in the Bishop Arts District and finished on the rooftop of Ryan's downtown office. Such a fun opportunity! I'd really been wanting to shoot some cityscape portraits, so I was pumped. Enough talky-talky, check out this cute couple:

 









This is a shameless imitation of a shot I saw by Amy Karp. Her work is amazing, and you should definitely check her out!























I should spend some time using photoshop and make a layout for these.

That's a ton of photos to link, but this shoot had a lot of really great shots and I wanted to share.

Portrait: Family Time!

I've been busy graduating from school and getting a job, hence the lack of blog posts. In photographic pursuits, I've gotten to do several really fun shoots with families lately and I loved it. Here is a sampling:

Scouting: The Shops @ Legacy

I've wanted to check out this WAAAY north Dallas shopping center as a portrait location for a while. Last week, I managed to be there with my camera and I was really excited by what I saw! There is a lake on the south side of the development with nice greenery and foot paths as well as some quasi urban-chic outdoor shopping. I think this will make a great portrait location.

Random Camera Times!

I've been MIA the past couple weeks navigating this whole school wrap-up thing. I should finish University in 3 weeks or so and that is CRAZY. I'm very excited. I'll be working to track down some kind of financial analyst role and working on growing my photography during my free time.

I've gotten to do a couple shoots lately, but mostly I've been taking photos of my own family. I was in Houston visiting my dad last weekend and had a chance to make some portraits with my dad. It was really great to do that, as I'm not sure he's had a good portrait made in a long time. I know I didn't have any. Enough talking, here are some pictures!









The whole time we were doing this shoot in a small park I was struck by how thankful I'm going to be for these shots one day. Kinda got all sniffly whilst I was editing it all up.

In the same vein, my mother in law was in town this past weekend and I made sure to claim some time to make a few photos of her with Michelle and me.





The second was a keeper that came out whilst I was still getting my metering down. I love it when these shots work out as they are usually a lot more relaxed.

I'm thankful for my family.

Portrait: Sharon

I've been looking forward to this shoot for a couple weeks. Monday night Sharon, myself and an assistant headed to SMU & Snider Plaza to shoot a portrait session. Sharon is great in front of the camera and we came away with some fun pictures!















This was great fun and I had an excuse to use some off-camera flash. This is the first shoot I've planned out with that in mind and I'm really happy with the results.

Adventures in Eyeballs

So, this may not be the coolest post ever, but it's a true story!

So, last week I hurt my eye:



According to the doctor, my eyeball dried out whilst I was sleeping and my eyelid stuck to my cornea. Then I ripped some of that same cornea off when I woke up. It's pretty much as painful as it sounds and is definitely a "say eight" level situation. This has happened to me over the past 3 years every 3-4 months in alternating eyes. I'd always thought a bit of sleep was stuck under my eyelid and was scratching my eyeball. Boy, was I wrong. Last week was by far the worst ever. My usual procedure of 'take two excedrin, go back to sleep, feel better in a few hours' wasn't working. At all.

I ended up calling a friend to take me to the eye doctor. The doctor managed to get the hurt eye open, put in some numbing drops and figure out what the heck was wrong. He shined some lights in there, poked it with a Q-tip, he *painted my eyeball with some stuff* and then taped my eye shut. I went home and slept for two days straight until my follow up appointment.

At the follow up on Wednesday, the doctor said everything was healing ok, but he wanted it to stay shut another couple days. The patch came loose due to some Wednesday afternoon adventures with Michelle (the brakes in our car failed, it was kinda exciting), so I replaced the gauze + tape with a better patch:



On Friday (go go Rebecca Black) I was allowed to go patchless. My left eye was still super blurry, but it felt nice to be back in the land of stereo vision again. I celebrated by making a self portrait with a nice blue sky in the background:



My left eye still isn't 100% clear, and it affects my ability to get shots in focus with my camera. I hope it clears up soon. Anyway, at least I lived, got to wear a cool eye patch and had friends I could call when I was in full-on 'Ouch' mode. I have to put crazy eyedrops in every night now, but there's reason to hope that this won't happen again. (Fingers crossed)