Author Archives: Chase Hoffman

One of the most difficult battles for anyone involved in creative endeavors is battling your internal censor or as Jay Smooth calls it the Little Hater. It’s a vicious battle internal battle with the same part of your mind that helps you elevate your work to the next level. It goes by many names: Internal [...]

Wow, I can’t believe I forgot to share these for this long. As you might remember, I did a shoot where I explored the Film Noir Style. If you haven’t seen those yet, click here, read and then come back. Some of these shots were intentional, others… not so much.

A lot of news outlets are creating their top 10 lists for 2011 and I wanted to do the same. However, I figured I would keep my list short and sweet so that I can spend more time with each photo. One other quirk is that I will only pick one picture to be Number [...]

This wedding was on the books for a while. I’ve known Carlie for a little while before she hired me, so I was definitely looking forward to capturing her special day with her fiance (and now her husband), Dan. The ceremony and reception were held at the Wild Basin Lodge. It’s an awesome venue and [...]

This grossly overdue, and I could post a laundry list of excuses on why this post didn’t happen sooner, but I’d rather tell you about Dane and Caitlin’s wedding. The ceremony and reception were held at the Victorian Event Center at Heritage Square in Golden. Since I spent my college years in Golden, it was [...]

For a while, I’ve been fascinated with the film noir look. The dramatic shadows combine with stern looks for out of the ordinary portrait. I figured out the basics of how to light a model for that film noir look, but I didn’t have the people. So I talked to some friends and stirred up [...]

Yesterday, Christina and I met at the studio co-op that I just joined for a new photoshoot. This time, she brought out Alexstrasza The Life-Binder. Alexstrasza is a powerful dragonqueen from the ever-popular game, World of Warcraft. In game, Alexstrasza is the noble leader of the Red Dragon Flight and the Guardian of Life on [...]

This blog has been a bit neglected lately, but I plan to turn that around with some news and projects I’m working on. First I want to share my Ignite Boulder 14 presentation. The weeks leading up to the presentation were a bit stressful, but everything came out alright. Check out the video below.

Shortly after getting engaged, Laura suggested the idea to do a light painting for our Save the Date. To her knowledge, no one has done anything like this in any of the wedding blogs and forums that she follows.

Last blog post talked about my recent shoot with Christina and her costume. We did some fun light paintings and then I shared them here on chasehoffman.com. Apparently, someone at Kotaku.com saw my post and decided to share it. What great news! Being smaller operation here at CHP, it’s nice to get some exposure like [...]