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Around The House

Wow it's been a long time since posting. Life has been . . . well . . . interesting. So, now 4 1/2 months into being laid off I am trying to catch up on the photography that I've been doing. This was a great session with a great family. They had family in town and it was great to capture the generations.

We started working inside the house. I looked around and was drawn to the light in the kitchen. The sun was high and it was pouring soft light in through the windows in the dining room to the right and from the sliders leading to the porch to the left. I had them turn on the recessed lighting and hanging lights. Then I added 2 strobes. One for key light on the subjects and one to fill in some dark areas behind and to the left. This was definitely an exercise in balancing flash and ambient light. I love the pose above leaning on the kitchen counters.

Then we moved outside and dealt with the heat and high sun raining in through the oaks. But we got some fun shots with natural Florida as the backdrop.

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Happy Everything

Recently got a Christmas card from friends/clients. It included the above photo. In large lettering, "Happy Everything". Man does that fit. They are so fun and easy to work with.

So we took these with combinations of natural light filtered through bed sheets to the left, bare strobes into the ceiling, bare strobes directly aimed at the subject, and my new favorite light modifier, the small softbox that I use with my battery strobes.

Here is an example of the natural light from the window to the left. The sun was hitting it directly so we hung bed sheets to diffuse it. I also bounced a strobe into the white ceiling to the right.

Here's a fun one.

For more of an edge, here I blasted bare strobes from each side.

Here's the love.

And more of the love.

And I'll finish with some of the expressions of the rock-n-roller above.

Be blessed. More photo shoots to come . . .

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Great Friends, Beautiful Kids

The tough thing about this one is just deciding which photos to post. So here are a bunch of them. Some black and white, some color. Some use strobes some are just natural evening light on the beach. We enjoy a visit with these special people.

Here is a group that I would title HAIR/Girlhood.

Someone could have a career in modeling I think.

Here is some miscellaneous fun.

One of my favorites of the bunch here.

Mommy is one of my wife's best friends since college.

So thankful to call these gals friends. See you soon.

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Bb

Spent some time with my buddy Bryan Boliver and his wife. He is a singer/songwriter and we took some photos to feed his websites for a while. We used a few different lighting styles. In the lead photo above you see side lighting with bare strobes. Very harsh shadows. I love the technique. Gives a good edge to the photo.

Here are some more.

Then we took some ambient light stuff as well since the sun was setting. Placed the sun behind him and exposed for his face and let the background blow out.