Had fun with my daughter tonight, who much more creative than me! 🙂 She had to have inspiration for a sculpture project and decided to use sound movement, so we covered a junky old speaker with cellophane and gaffers tape, poured kids washable paints, thinned with water, and cranked up Imagine Dragons to get the… Read More
I can’t wait to take my boys camping and since it’s not quite summer, I thought I would take a trial run! Set up the tent in the living room and my little one hopped in was so excited! Grabbed Larry the Cucumber and watched a little Daniel Tiger. Now we are watching the Red… Read More
Our nanny came by for a visit and got a sneak attack! I was taking various pictures of odds and ends around the house, more specifically working with flash by moving around the light to create new light sources when she came by. I was working with closeups with lights in the background in order… Read More
I love this piece -it’s a solid piece of olive wood from Israel, carved into Joseph, Mary, and Jesus. I wanted to continue my practice with off camera flash and while I still have a long t I’m slowly getting the hang of things. Anyway, admiring this piece again tonight has me daydreaming of travel.… Read More
So, this is what happens when things get really quiet with a two and a half year old! He managed to pull out most of the books in our room. I find it funny that he left some evidence behind right in the middle of the crime scene, and ironic that it’s right on top… Read More
My journey with flash is just beginning. This was shot with off camera flash (OCF), eTTL, -2 EV with Mag Mod and two grids plus diffuser. I still have a hot spot on the chrome, I need to practice and learn how to avoid that. None-the-less, my goal was to ‘dramatically’ light a dark subject… Read More
Part 2 of today’s POTD. As mentioned, I want to work with getting more comfortable with flash (pocket strobes). Still playing with on camera flash – but bouncing off a reflector. This is my favorite coffee mug, the 70-200mm mug. However, the mug design is a little top heavy (narrow bottom) and during a client… Read More
I missed yesterday, so today has two posts. As mentioned previously, I’m working towards learning my flash. Before jumping to a ‘studio 3 point setup’, I want to master the on camera flash first prior to off camera flash. I’m learning about bouncing the flash so that on camera flash has the same quality light… Read More
I had to quickly produce a head shot today of myself and so I solicited the help of my assistant, James. It was such a blast with him. In order to capture an image of myself, I set the timer to 10″, would press the shutter, run to my seat and take the photo. Between… Read More
It’s the end of the week, and a productive one at that! Work has been good and I’ve made a lot of progress. Even though my creativity is not as strong as others, this daily focus on the ‘Shot of the Day’ has been good to clear out my mind and has given me more… Read More
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