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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...]