Strobist Sports Portraits – Setup #2

Sportrait Basketball

The second setup for the Strobist Sports Portrait shoot was a one light setup outside.  I used the same White Lightning 1600 with the 7" 20 degree grid outside in the beautiful clear day.  It was bright out there!  The plan for this shot was to … [Read more...]

Strobist Sports Portraits – Setup #1

Cyclist Sportrait

Last weekend Jason Lykins and Shad Ramsey of Red Door Photography just outside of Cincinnati hosted a Strobist Meet-up at their large studio.  If you're in the Cincinnati area, you should check them out.  The do wonderful work and they support the … [Read more...]

Corporate Head Shots

Corporate Head Shot

I recently created head shots for a local office of a Fortune 100 company for use in their literature, organization charts and such.  My job was to shoot a group people in management throughout the group.  The shots were not glamorous, just … [Read more...]

Black and White Pin Up Shots

Half Tone Pin Up

Here are a few B/W pics from the pin-up shoot.  Using black and white pictures seem  important to me when shooting this style picture.  The last one isn't really 100% black and white but it has an old photos style look that I enjoy. The … [Read more...]

Fantasy Moon Pin Up

Fantasy Moon Setup Photo

One of the goals that I had during the Pin Up shoot last weekend was to create a "Fantasy Moon Pin Up" image and I was able to complete that goal.   Below is the final result.  I'm pretty happy with the final image. I experimented with the … [Read more...]

1940′s Style Pin Up Shoot

Pin Up Grotto - 333 × 500

Sorry that I've not been active posting for some time.  I've got a huge project in the works and it's been taking almost every free moment.  I hope to make it public in the next month or so.  So stay tuned, it's gonna be good! That said, … [Read more...]

Tiki in the sun

Tiki in Black and White

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 … [Read more...]

Mike’s Sportrait

Mike's Setup

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 … [Read more...]

Cosmetics Beauty Ad

setup

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 … [Read more...]

One RadioPopper JrX Driving Two Alien Bees DIY

Two Alien Bees Driven by one RadioPopper JrX

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.  … [Read more...]