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...]
Light and Pixels 365 Project
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 … [Read more...]
That gritty look
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 … [Read more...]