The achievement

The Achievement will be a photo and a diagram of how the photo was taken. This photo was made with a 16" beauty dish equipped with a daylight balanced bulb & a diffusion sock. The dish was placed 6" away from the subject. I used two matte black foam boards to suck up some light spill, in which they have worked well. A flash set to the lowest power was used for the background otherwise the background would have been completely black. I used the canon 70D with the 50mm 1.8 lens I was about 9' away from the subject. the shoot went pretty well with no muck ups ;-)  I will be making more achievement post in the future stay tuned, and keep shooting.

Getting uncomfortabe

Greetings everyone, hope all is well with you. Today I wanted to talk about the comfort zone we all have it, and if your like me it can be very crippling. Creatives are often plagued with their comfort zone, and I feel it happens even more so for photographers because we have a tendency to get a good photo and continuously keep taking the same shot over and over again. Comfort does not lead to growth, and we all want to grow in our lives, if not than what is the reason for even getting out of bed or living for that matter. The two photos below made me somewhat uncomfortable in the best way, and I have grown from it. I will admit I can be lazy at times and not want to set up lights, reflectors and the sort, but this time I forced myself to shape the light, and shoot the photos the way my mind shot them before I pressed the shutter button. The first photo was made with a daylight balanced bulb and a snoot with a grid attached. The second photo I used a flashgun with 16 inch beauty dish on the subject, and a 5 inch beauty dish with a flashgun bouncing into a silver umbrella reflecting onto thunder grey background paper.

Daytona Beach trip

My family and I had a wonderful day trip to Daytona beach, fl. The best part was that it was also bike weekend, and it seemed like everyone who rides some form of motor bike was in attendance.

New home new state, back in business

 

Hey you!

Take a chance, and fail at what you love,

instead of succeeding at what you hate.

Beauty editorial

This is my first beauty editorial. Editorial's have to be consistent with theme and color gradation, but not so much with the clothing, of course the clothes have to be in the same theme, but not the same outfit in every shot. I am going to make more editorial post in the near future because I had so much fun thinking of what to add to the shots. As always thanks for all the support.

Color?

I have been so intrigued by black and white photos lately. I set out with no destination in mind, not knowing what I am going to shoot for the day, and it has brought the brand new photographer feeling back into shooting for me. I guess its like going on an adventure back in time because I set the camera on black and white and I just shoot, even though I still have the safety net of the raw file under the black and white file ("raw file"- is the untouched data of a photo, so what you shoot is what you get in the raw file, color and all) If you are a lil down about your photos try a new approach, remember what was fun about shooting when you first got you camera. Enjoy yourselves.