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 292010
I got a second flash yesterday. I started playing with it over the weekend. Here is the boy blowing up a balloons for a birthday party. He stated that this was what he wanted to do when he grows up. Anyone know of a professional balloon blower upper association
200mm f/8 1/160s flashes all over the place
Aug 282010
My neighbor in the spring went out and got a turkey for his backyard. Well it was a hen and it laid eggs which then hatched… so now we have little turkeys hanging out around the house. If I can catch one, fresh free turkey for Thanksgiving.
200mm f/10 1/50s sb-600 @full power in hot shoe
FYI 88 days until Thanksgiving
PS I got looking at this bird again and realized that it is not a turkey at all. It is some sort of grouse (I think that it is a sage grouse). That’s ok they taste good as well
Aug 062010
I had a goal in mind for my shot today. I want a background for my new phone. This is a close up of my Cabelas camp chair.
35mm reversed f/22 1/160s flash fired from behind the mesh below the camera
Jul 292010
As in “This is what I was shoot’n for” when I did the post a couple of weeks ago.
