Another home game gave me the opportunity to photograph some more basketball and to continue to tweak the lighting in the gym. Once again I used the SB800 and SB600 cross lighting the gym. Again I mounted the lights in the abandoned clock baskets about 10 feet up. This time I [...]
Last month in this post I talked about how I lit a high school basketball gym with two speed lights.
The thing that I wasn’t able to get right the first time was the location of my lights. I had to put them both off to one side and higher the basket. The diagram below shows [...]
This weekend I had the opportunity to shoot a girls varsity basketball game at the local high school. Some of you know I have another website where I shoot some sports as a way to help pay some of the photography equipment. This summer and fall I got to shoot a bunch of HS soccer [...]
How does that beauty dish adjust anyway? That’s the big question and it’s the thing I did not explain it very well. So here goes. Really, it is just a built up mirror on three bolts that can slide in and out of the dish. The big thing is that each dish is likely to [...]
I got to do senior photos for the team. We did the regular group shots, captains together, keepers together, individuals…etc. then I took time to try one cool shot. Each year the Seniors for the Varsity soccer team get an autograph book that is passed around the stadium during Senior night and my shot will [...]
Wow, what a weekend. I shot a U12 baseball tournament this weekend. It was a small tournament, 12 teams, two fields, and two days – Friday night and Saturday. I did get some pretty nice shots but the orders haven’t exactly come flying in. I guess I’m not surprised though because I didn’t get any [...]
I had the chance to shoot on both on Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday was at Gene’s Daughter Leiah’s Birthday party. We did a full glamour shot set up. Lieah and her girlfriends had their hair and makeup done, played the Wii, and then had a photo shoot. I’m pretty sure The Next Top American [...]
