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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is one more from the senior soccer player shoot. One of our goals was to shoot a cover for the Senior Night program. The idea from the program publisher was to recreate the scene from the show Friday Night Lights poster with the players walking onto the field with the stadium lights. The thing [...]
Each year I shoot the HS Senior Soccer players individually and in a team photo. The Shoot this year was pretty standard fair with each of the players with the team’s field sign and with their paw print that has their name and number. Those shots turned out nice but not really out of [...]
Just a little reminder for those of you that may have forgotten. One of the most basic and important things I’ve learned about photography is that when you’re using flash, ambient light is controlled by adjusting shutter speed. Flash exposure is controlled by adjusting aperture. Tweaking ISO lets you adjust the range of the Shutter [...]
One of the things you learn about photography is that to grow you need to interact with other people who share your passion for photography. This interaction helps you to understand their motivations, goals, and aspirations. My experience is that most photographers are the sort of people who WANT to tell you about their passion, [...]
