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Images from a recent photo shoot with Megan Bales and Jessica Yandell in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They modeled clothes from the Boutique Coutoure in Chattanooga. The shoot was at the Church on Main Street downtown. This was my second experience collaborating with Megan, my first with Jessica. Photographer: Steven Stiefel Models: Megan Bales and Jessica Yandell [...]
Had a terrific photo shoot recently with Kourtney Hedden-Kaehuaea of Chattanooga. Here are some of the edits from that shoot. The rest will appear on my upcoming iPad app.
Whether it is a collection of former classmates or a rare whole family gathering over the holidays, Steven Stiefel can be at your specified location to create a group portrait so no one has to miss out on being in the photo. Getting a group together can make it challenging to get one single photo [...]
Model: Brooke Atchley. Styling by the model. Location: Big Mill Antique Mall, Fort Payne, Alabama. Assignment: Portfolio shoot.
Models: Becky Pina. Shoot date: October 1, 2011. Styling: By the models. Location: Wallace SeaRay Yacht on Old Hickory Lake, Henderson, Tennessee. Background: We scheduled this photo shoot in August when temperatures were in the 70s. When the shoot date rolled around, we awakened to unseasonably cold fall weather. I have to give her considerable [...]
Model: Coy Hall. Styling by the model. Assignment: Portfolio shoot for his agency in Asia to show a change in her appearance while he was stateside on an extended visit.
Anyone can buy a camera and say they are a photographer, but it takes getting published to be a legitimate professional photographer. I’ve shot hundreds of photo shoots over the last two decades. Much of my commercial assignment work governed by contracts that do not permit me to display the resulting imagery, particularly too soon [...]
I had the privilege of photographing the wedding of Lisa Bradford and John Stillman at Tate’s Farm in Meridianville, Alabama. Lisa is an old friend and former model of mine.
Location: Little River Canyon National Preserve and DeSoto Falls in Fort Payne, Alabama after Tropical Storm Lee. The storm knocked out power to about 185,000 homes, breaking tree limbs and downing electricity lines. It also dumped more than 9 inches of rain, producing this spectacular waterfall, which 48 hours before was merely a trickle.
Model: Becca Wright. Make-Up and styling by the model. Assistant: Susan Morgan. Location: Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia. Assignment: Non-Commercial Portfolio Shoot.
I traveled to St. Simon’s Island on the Georgia coast over the weekend to photograph the wedding of Marki Meisburger and Brett Mason. It was a lovely ceremony and reception at the King and Prince Resort. Marki was remarkable, a true do-it-herselfer who put together a beautifully elegant event. Makeup by Kat Flynt, hair by [...]
Models: Kerriana Dooley and Tara Lynn Overby. Makeup and styling by the models. Location: Atlanta, Georgia.
Model: Kate Veltkamp. Makeup and Styling by the model. Location: The Delta Queen and Coolidge Park, Chattanoga, Tennessee.
Model: Marena Crauswell. Wardrobe and Styling by the model. Location: Fort Payne, Alabama. Note: This was a portfolio shoot incorporating several locations in Fort Payne, including my friend Brooke’s home, which has one of the creepiest basements ever. I remember thinking, “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again…” [...]
Steven Stiefel enjoys attending the Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival on South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida. The festival celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2008 with performances by Tiesto, Underworld, Justice, Paul Van Dyk, Carl Cox, Armin Van Buuren, MSTRKRFT, Deadmau5, Annie Mac, Eric Prydz,Ferry Corsten, Calvin Harris, Moby, The Crystal Method, Boys Noize, Benny Benassi, David Guetta, Jes, Enur, Pete Tong and Rabbit in the Moon.
My daughter Miranda is my greatest inspiration and my favorite subject for photography. Here are just a few of my many images of her.
Backroads is a coffee table art book project based on preserving the sights of places in the Old South found off the main highways — places with a sense of being left behind in the rush to progress. We now live in a world where every rest stop off the Interstate looks and feels the [...]
Steven Stiefel grew up in Fort Payne, Alabama, the same hometown as country music superstars Alabama, a country music and southern rock band. He has many memories of the group’s annual June Jam concerts, and documenting it was an early highlight in his career. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook. From [...]
Model: Kate Veltkamp. Make-Up Artist: Angela Williams Jordan. Location: Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
Without doubt, one of the most chilling moments I’ve had as a journalist and photographer was coming face to face with Hayward Bissell, an Ohio native who murdered and cannibalized his girlfriend, taking her corpse on a joyride that ended with a police confrontation in Valley Head, Alabama. Bissell attempted to run over a couple [...]
Model: Emily Caroline. Styling by model. Makeup by model. Location: Woodstock, Georgia. Emily Caroline photographed by Steven Stiefel. © 2011 Steven Stiefel Creative Images. All Rights Reserved.
Enjoyed the Fourth of July weekend in Chattanooga, Tennessee with my daughter Miranda. We visited the Chattanooga River Market and the Creative Discovery Museum.
Portraits done for the View of the City cast in Birmingham, Alabama.
