Thursday, July 29th, 2010

A friend and fellow photographer and I had the opportunity to shoot a local young and rising model Brandi. The shoot held at a local state park.  I brought along a Alien Bee AB800 strobe/monolight, a beauty dish, a Vagabond power supply and  a Kacey Pole Adaptor to hold it all together.  The Kacey Pole [...]

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One of my favorite photographers work to follow is Joel Grimes.  Joels is pretty famous for his “three point lighting” setup of models, athletes, musicians, or other characters mixed with a HDR background.  I really enjoy the look of Joels three point lighting work because it is different than most and because for me, it [...]

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I had the pleasure of photographing Allison for her senior portraits. She is a really sweet young lady with a wonderful future ahead of her.  She had lots of fun doing her senior photo shoot. She was quick to “strike a pose” and was just beautiful in her yellow senior high prom dress.
All [...]

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The email from Radiopopper finally came out tonight.  The guys at Leap Devices have made the following announcement:

“The RadioPopper RPCube will be available for purchase Monday, May 3, 2010 at 1pm PST for $29.95.”

I’ve said it before – I really like what the RadioPopper guys have done with their radio triggers but they tend [...]

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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 “over power the sun”.  That big ass White Lightning [...]

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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 photography community with regular classes for photographers and models.
For this meet-up, I [...]

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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 processing in the shot below was accomplished using a [...]

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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 final processing in different colors and tones but [...]

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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 [...]

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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  – [...]

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