It’s HERE!!

After months and months of work the new site is up. I’m beyond thrilled to announce the beginning of my new integrated online shop where I’m offering limited edition high quality prints. Along with the new shop, I’m introducing signup’s for the workshops I currently offer. More workshops are being added monthly.

I have been wanting to have a integrated shop for years now, a place to sell numbered and signed one of a kind prints. Having little pieces of me in your home means the world to me. I have also been teaching photography workshops like a mad women for quite some time now through various places/companies as well as my own. It’s amazing that now people will have a place to sign up directly on my site, rather than the word of mouth that it used to be.

Growing your own company/brand is a hard, long, pain staking process…but let me tell you, IT IS SOOOOOO WORHT IT. Every new person I meet, teach or touch with my work makes everything I do worthwhile.

So go ahead and check out the new site! Sign up for Underwater Workshop while your at it! And if you like what you see buy a print…or two :D!

Happy Shooting

♥,
Krystal

A little Something Beautiful

A sneak peek at a shoot I did for my most wonderful and insanely talented friend Betsy Flores. Her clothes are beyond amazing and I cannot wait to shoot the rest of her up and coming collection. Burnt chiffon?! I think yes! I love you missy and I cannot wait to see how far you’ll go.




Photographer: Krystal Donovan
Designer- Betsy Flores
Model- Lacée De Grasse

<3 Krystal

Wishful Thinking

‎'l'ascension'

Wishful Thinking

'Wishing'

DELL

I recently finished shooting DELL's new promotional campaign, which will be featured on the Reuters Billboard in Time Square NY at the end of the month. I'm still in shock at the fact that my images will be up in one of the most high traffic and well know areas in the country for all to see. I am beyond excited and thrilled to have worked so hard and achieved this massive opportunity. Here are a few out takes from the shoot. DELL was asking consumers, "What Would You Do If You Had The Power To Do More?" Then they would write there answers on a board and I would photograph them in front of colored seamless. I had such a blast working with the DELL team along with a few awesome photographers and cinematographers.

Wishful Thinking

'If I had wings'

Window Light

Thanks a million to my beautiful friend Andrea for sitting aka bending in awkward positions in my living room for me!!! And she say’s she’s not photogenic, pshhhhh.

XX,

K

Long walks

'lost'

Long afternoon walks are the best, you should take one.

Shiny & New

I finally got around to creating a new website, it's all shiny and new. Go ahead and take a looksie !!!


xx,
K

Suspended

'taken empty handed'



'the thin separation'

Ripples

Taking my camera off dry land for the last few weeks has been absolutely amazing! Though shooting underwater does have it downfalls (it’s not the easiest thing in the world to do) holding your breath, while attempting not to drown, while holding a 20+ pound camera housing and lighting is quite a talent in and of itself. I can’t wait to just in the pool again this week with my new models, I must say I’ve developed a bit of an obsession with it. The textures of skin, the seemingly fluid movements of the muscles, it’s a whole other space down there. dig

xx,
K

Beneath it all

Underwater shoots turned out to be no joke when it comes to editing, here are a few more shot's I just finished.


'melting through dark spaces'



'breaking the surface'




~K

Underwater

I've been working on a new series of underwater shots, it's been exciting and daunting to say the least. Here is the first image I finished editing, I might take one more pass at it, but for the most part it is finished. Thanks to my wonderful model Jess for jumping in cold water for 5 hours with me.




'peace comes in still waters'

~K

Foodie

I have a slight obsession with food, I believe it's always been there, however since I moved to San Francisco food has become...well...how do I explain it, (sigh) it's just amazing. I'm so lucky to live in a city where the food tastes like heaven no matter where you go. My friends and I went to Farmer Brown's the other day, a soul food restaurant, if you have never been I highly recommend it. They have cucumber in their water ! I now this sound minor, but I loath water looaaaaath. But the attention to small details such as that keep me coming back to this amazing little restaurant, that and the amazing art adorning their walls.

The whole purpose for this little rant is that I have gathered a nice little collection of online recipes over the last year that I must try out.

Goal-
1. 1 recipe a week
2. Photograph my progress
3. Enjoy

So let's see how this goes shall we !? For my first recipe Red Lobster Biscuits, my mother and I's all time favorite.


Stay tuned.

xx,
K

Outside

I've been taking little trip's outside of the city with other photographer friends of mine just to shoot for me. I've been so busy with work and school that I forgot what it's like to just go out and shoot for myself. This particular adventure was 2 hours south of the city in the marshes.


Melissa is an amazing painter and the girlfriend of one of my close photographer friends Brett. Personally I would die standing in one place painting all day, but I've always admired people who do things I don't.

assignments

Imitate Erik Almas style in a product shot, if Almas was to shoot Products without people that is.

This was by far one of the most annoying assignment's to date. This class 'Concept Project,' is basically designed to get you to develop a style, if you don't already have one. It also teaches you to recognize styles in other photographers work. So our first two assignment's were to produce works in another artists style, but not to photograph what they usually do. I posted my Irving Penn landscape a few weeks ago, a much easier assignment for me because I shoot pretty simply like Penn. Erik Almas on the other hand is a pain in my side to replicate. Not may people in the class actually did, calling the assignment a loss. The guy does have a army of people spending their life in photoshop editing his work, hat's off.

K

Road Trip

As you know, I took a road/camping trip up the California coast with some Photographer friends of mine to to simply shoot a while back, to say we had fun would be an understatement. I posted the pictures a few months ago but never got around to editing the video I had also shoot on my camera. Finally, at LAST here it is :) Enjoy

Road Trip from Krystal Donovan Photography on Vimeo.

The Greatest

Assignment; Shoot a landscape like Irving Penn, if he shot landscapes that is.

40's the new 30