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.
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kids,
natural light,
portraits
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.
Keep posted. I received a present while on vacation that I'm going to share.
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balancing ambient,
kids,
multiple lights,
portraits,
shoot thru
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.
So back to the boys' room and another natural light shot here with the sun filtering through the bunk bed beams.
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balancing ambient,
hair light,
kids,
natural light,
one light,
portraits,
rim light
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.
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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portraits,
reflector