Posts Tagged ‘photo’
The Littlest Dark Knight – 36/365
Dashing off into the night to save the day!
My guest post on how I made this image – HOW I PHOTOGRAPHED BATMAN (AND BATGIRL)
Birthday Party – 34/365
I wanted to post this image because it shows that even in the worst conditions you can get an interesting image. This was taken at one of our kids friends birthday party. Inside, at night and they had turned off the lights for the candle lighting. Now I could have turned on the flash on my iPhone (or worst yet had it set to auto!) and gotten a pretty typical harshly lit camera phone shot. Instead I chose to try to get a non-typical image. Since this was not my kids birthday, I really had no pressure to get a usable image at all. As you can see there where plenty of other folks on top of the action. So I fired off a couple of frames and was lucky enough to catch the flash from the other photographers camera. I think that alone makes the image for me.
The Sailor – 16/365
Another one from my session with Trung. This is my dads old navy peacoat that I brought along because I thought the collar would be cool flipped up’ed. Did I just say that?!? Does any collar ever look good flipped up? Well I think this one does.
If you need a male model in the Bay Area, check out Trung’s Model Mayhem profile.
Week of Lily Day 5 – 15/365
We end the week back where we started. The same image from day 1 with a slightly different processing. I liked this image so much and I could not decide which one I liked for so I decided that I didn’t need to choose!
Week of Lily Day 4 – 14/365
This is about when she startes to wonder when we are going to be done but is just too sweet to tell me she is done. I love the great little half smile.
Week of Lily Day 2 – 11/365
Lily decided this was a good pose that she learned from her Barbie fashion movie. I can’t say I disagree, maybe their are good lessons to be learned from Barbie!
Week of Lily Day 1 – 10/365
This week your are going to get a full week of photos of my super patient “go to” model Lily. I shot these with my new tri-fold reflector and a single SunPak 120J directly above Lily’s head.
The Fighter – 9/365
This is Trung. He found me via my Model Mayhem profile and asked to do a shoot Sunday evening. Even though it was pretty cold Trung hung in there like a trooper and we got some good images. This is my favorite of the bunch. If you need a male model in the Bay Area, check out Trung’s Model Mayhem profile.
The Beast – 8/365
The Beast
The fur of a ox taken at the Happy Hollow Zoo in San Jose. I love capturing the little details most people overlook and decided to go with a black and white treatment to really bring out the texture of the fur.
Ode to Joy – 7/365
Ode to Joy
One of those shots I had in my head but took about 30 frames to capture it. This is a technique I use a lot for sports, slow shutter speed and pan the camera at the same speed as the subject. Fire a lot of frames and do a little chimping to make sure your pan speed is matching your subject. It is probably not going to be tack sharp at any point in the picture but the just sharp enough parts and the whole lots of blurry parts really drive home the message of movement. Then all you have to do is wait for your subject to cooperate. In this case my almost 3 year old on a spinning bug ride is happy to oblige!
Golden Girl – 6/365
Golden Girl
This light was so amazing I didn’t even care about the messy hair and Sharks hoodie. My daughter who just turned the big 5!
Lily the Eskimo
Since it is almost time to break out the Christmas lights I decided to try to do a little ring light with some wrapped up Xmas lights. It was a lot harder than I imagined, not a lot of light and a very wiggly little girl. This is the one image that turned out how I envisioned.
Denver Double Rainbow
This is the second image I took of the amazing double rainbow at the Denver airport yesterday. Lots of storms where swirling around the airport and I got a decent lighting show on the way in but once we started to taxi to the I looked out and saw an amazing double rainbow, with the primary rainbow being super vibrant. I happened to time this shot right as an airplane from my favorite airline, Southwest, was between the two rainbows.
Southwest is my double rainbow
