I don’t shoot black and white very often but sometimes it’s just the best option, even for me. This shot of Tiki our Yorkie. He was taking a nap while laying in the sun, something we don’t see much of this time of year. He was enjoying it as I got ready to go [...]
I worked with Mike H. (MM# 1436925) to create some Sportrait (Sports Portrait) shots. The weather didn’t allow for outside shooting so we did a simple back drop and created some hard edge light shots using strip boxes with grids and a large umbrella fill. We used a fold out black backdrop and exploited the [...]
I had a great time hanging out with the people from the Northern KY Wedding and Portrait Photographers meet-up group on Sunday. The organizers setup a very cool meet-up where 7 photographers setup “advanced lighting” shots and then demoed them to a group of about 35 area photographers.
First, I’d like to thank Jason and [...]
Sometimes the obvious just dawns on you and that’s what happened to me. I realized that you can use a single RadioPopper JrX Studio to control two Alien Bees with one receiver. All you need is one phone splitter and one long phone wire. You can use the shot phone cord that comes with the [...]
Are you familiar with 365 or picture-a-day projects? The idea of a 365 is to record a picture each and every day for a year. Some good photographers have done 365s – Dustin Diaz, Wizwow, and many others. I’ve decided to do one too and post the pictures on a new sister blog – [...]
It’s pretty cool when you get noticed by someone you respect. I had the honor of such a notice yesterday when one of my images was featured on Lighting-essentials.com (LE). Lighting Essentials is run by Don Giannatti, aka Wizwow. Don is a photographer I’ve come to respect for lots of reasons maybe mostly his [...]
In my last post I experimented with a look that is popular in many ads – in particular sports ads. Nike and Adidas ads are loaded with the look as are many others that want to have an intense, gritty look to their photos.
This blog entry documents how I’ve taken my work with the [...]
Santa was good to me this year. Under the tree I found a White Lightning X1600 strobe and a Vagabond II. That is an amazingly sweet gift from my wonderful family and I’m really thankful for having them. Thank you for supporting my photography!
The WL is the third light in my set that will [...]
I shot a horse today. Yep, a horse. It was fun. I brought out the big gun and fired away! Bam, Bam, Bam – 7 frames / second! You gotta shoot a hores in bursts like that because horses are FAST!
Actually I visited a friend who has a wonderful horse named Cooper that he [...]
We have a lot to be thankful for and this week one of the many things we were thankful for was the opportunity to visit with our family in South Carolina – Hilton Head Island to be specific. It’s a long drive from Ohio to South Carolina but it was worth every bit of [...]
