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...]
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...]
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...]
Santa was very good to me this year
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 … [Read more...]
Ohio Strobist Meet-Up Wrap Up
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 … [Read more...]
Ohio Strobist Meet-Up – Tomorrow!
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 … [Read more...]
Color your RadioPopper JrX Studio
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 … [Read more...]
RadioPopper JrX Cube – DIY
UPDATE: New posting on the release of the official Radiopopper RPCube and a Canon DIY cube is here: 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 … [Read more...]