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 umbrella fill. We used a fold out black backdrop and exploited the [...]
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 [...]
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. You can use the shot phone cord that comes with the [...]
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 [...]
Over the last few months I’ve been working to organize a photographers meet-up. I was planned in conjunction with the OH Strobist Flickr Group and some wonderful people from the Columbus, OH area. I’m happy to report we were able to pull it off and even exceed my expectations. I think we really pulled off [...]
I’ve been working on setting up an Ohio Strobist Meet-up. The idea is to create the opportunity for lots of photographers and models to get together and create some great images. The primary goal is learning. The secondary goal is to create some images that people can use in their portfolios.
The meet-up has come [...]
Here’s a quick tip for us RadioPopper users. Consider using color to match your RadioPopper JrX Studio transmitters power adjustment knobs. Identifying color is much faster than looking at dip switches and numbers are too hard to see from any distance away. The label is just colored electrical tape. I matched the receiver to [...]
I’m a big fan of the RadioPopper guys. I really think they are the real competition for the guys at PocketWizard. The RP guys have had their share of delays, sputters, and poor public relations – at least from where I sit. I suppose that sort of thing happens when a new company that’s new [...]
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 [...]
