I could plug myself into a charger when my batteries are low.
<b>50mm f/7.1 1/15s</b>
Flash @1/2 with bounce card directly behind.
Sep 042010
Sep 032010
I love blogstalking local photographers. One of my favorite is Suzanne Plant aka Lookie Loo Suz (link). She is also doing a 365 challenge a couple of days ago she posted a great picture of an apple (link). I loved the picture and when I saw the apple tree in my backyard I thought I would pull a copycat. I hope she doesn’t mind 
50mm f/22 1/60s
SB-600 @full in hotshoe with a micro Apollo softbox attached.
Sep 022010
Well a nice new umbrella and lighting set can’t fix a couple of things. Bad composition, bad posing, bad lighting to name a few. This was a total experiment and it didn’t work out too well. I’m fine with that; failure is just another form of success (at least that is what I tell myself in the dark of the night). For the record I think that my oldest son’s expression is priceless.
50m f/10 1/200s
Umbrella was level and to the subjects’ left @ full power.
Sep 012010
I really wanted to get this picture right, it was really important to me. Originally, I was using my wife for to set the lights. Then I said to heck with it I will just use her and get the picture I want, and she deserves a good picture. I was just looking for a basic portrait lighting setup and I think I got it OK here. Not so much here(link). The really hard part of this was keeping the window reflections out of her glasses.
50mm f/8 1/250s
Light form umbrella 6 inches from face on the subjects right @full power; bounce card to the left @ 1/2.Basically
Aug 312010
Onward and upward with my lighting experimentation. I was trying to get something that was “dramatic” read somber. My daughter went with sad and she won This was done with a snooted speedlight on for the face at 1/8th power and a second light in a mini softbox @ 1/64 power in front and below. Then I converted it to BW in Lightroom.
50mm f/11 1/125s
I quite like this shot.
Aug 302010
There is a quote out there. That amateurs practice until they get it right. Pros practice until they can’t get it wrong. Either way I am going to be practicing my lighting techniques for quite a while. For the record I don’t even try posing him it is just impossible.
50mm f/8 1/40s
I will have to start recording my lighting set up so that I can remember them. This was an umbrella to the subjects right and a speed light to the lower left both @ 1/8 power with the slow shutter for the window light.
Aug 172010
It is my number 1 rule to live by (post) yet I still run into problems with it 
With the AC out yesterday we cooked everything outside on a fire. After arranging the bricketts with metal tongs for the dutch oven I decided to pick up the tongs by the hot end, it was a bad idea. In my defense the tongs didn’t look hot.
50mm f/22 1/160s on camera flash @1/4power
Aug 162010
No electricity, that’s what. The transformer in our backyard blew up last night. I spent most of the day complaining, and trying to figure out why my AC wasn’t working. Then as we started talking to the neighbors they were having the same problems. Then the big clue was when Rocky Moutain power came and tore down our fence and started digging around the transformer. We had 110 but no 220. So no AC, dryer, or oven, but I only cared about one of those.
50mm f/8 1/40s
PS for the record it was 96 degrees and 36% humidity that day.
This was what I saw in my mirror as we were driving back from Oak City. He has stated several times that his favorite thing about the new car is the turn (manual) windows that I can’t lock. And yes, I took this picture while I was driving. I saw the picture, stopped the car and set everything up manually, then when I was actually driving all I had to do was frame the picture and fire off 15 frames. Then pick the best one of the batch.
50mm f/11 1/160s
Aug 112010
I REALLY need to find a car to take back and forth to work.
50mm reversed f/8 1/8s
