Must Have Roasted Marshmallow!

Must Have Roasted Marshmallow!

Thought this was a funny one.  The present that I mentioned before was a Quantaray 19-35mm lens.  I am using here one-handed while holding the marshmallow that I just roasted for my son.  I need to post a little review of this lens because it does well.

Be blessed.



Vacation

Friends

Here are a few portraits that I took while on vacation.  We visited our friends in SC.  They are all shot from the same setup.  I shot my 285HV into a shoot-thru for key light and used my bare 540EZ for accent hanging from their beams with a super clamp.  The last visit, I shot some very similar portraits.  The difference is that this time I let the ambient burn in for the background where as last time I lit that with a Sunpak 411.

Friends

Friends

Keep posted.  I received a present while on vacation that I'm going to share.


Taking The Opportunity

You Talkin' To Me?

Had a few opportunities tonight to shoot.  I noticed the evening sun coming through the boys' bedroom window and I decided to grab the umbrella and balance with the sun.  So I was in the process of doing that when I hear from the master bathroom "Come look at Maggie, she has funny ears".  That lead to this natural light photo.  We have a big window at the bathtub that I have frosted and it makes a great light source. 

My Hair!

So back to the boys' room and another natural light shot here with the sun filtering through the bunk bed beams.

Evening Sun




Coming Soon . . .

I'm switching back.  Man I hate to do this switching back and forth but I am so bummed about the lack of widgets and the ability to customize on wordpress.  They're security is so high that you are very limited in the HTML/JAVA widgets that you can add to your blog.


Typical Shoot

Typical Photoshoot

So in all honesty this is how 80-90% of my shots look. Someone is mad, sad, unhappy, hot, cold, hungry, wants to go home, doesn't want to go home, had something taken from them, took something from someone, you get the idea. So in the interest of full disclosure I thought I would put this up for all to see. I don't think I am unique here. You probably experience the same thing. I would like to hear about it.

So what do you do when this happens? We threaten loss of treats after dinner, loss of toys, loss of stars. We use stars as a reward system. If you do something good, you get a star. Something bad, you loose stars. If you get 10 stars, you get a prize of some kind. For a while, we were getting toys way too regularly. These days, they are so bad that I can't remember the last time either had 10 stars. Arggggg.

So with a little threatening we got them to smile and stand still for longer than 5 ms.

Be blessed.

The Boys

More Fun With A Reflector

How Sweet It Is

I have been enjoying using a reflector with the fam out back. I really REALLY really love this picture of my daughter with my wife framing her face. Wow. I am thankful to be Daddy in this house.

Anyway just using the reflector to bring in some light wherever you choose. I really want to find a gold autoshade but I may have to break down and buy an actual photo reflector to get that color.

So here are few more from yesterday afternoon. These days anytime I ask to take Eli's picture, this is the face I get. Oh well, at least he isn't running from me like he used to.

This Is What You Get

I like the pose in this shot. Like he is in deep though about something. Again bringing in the reflector for fill from underneath.

Deep Thought

And finally my sweet wife Gretchen and my boy Eli. Hummm. Don't want to get too sappy here so I'll say . .

Be Blessed.

My Babies

Just A Reflector

Thinker
So I went out back with the boys today with my camera and my autoshade from Wal-Mart. The day is sunny so I figured I could use the sun and the reflector for two light sources.

In the shot above, the sun is coming from above and behind the subject from camera right. I stuck the reflector in close camera right in front.

For these last two shots, the setup is thus: sun from camera left and slightly behind and the reflector used to fill from camera right.

This is a very inexpensive and effective way to make a little more interesting light. My autoshade is silver. I would like to have a gold one but I haven't found one yet.

Post processing done in Lightroom. Man I really like using that. Haven't found something to do in photoshop in a while. Especially for portrait touch-up.

Be blessed.
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