Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Portrait Session




My daughter, Ashley, was home for 6 days: She had just finished a gig with Carnival as a production dancer, her fourth and likely last contract, then off to New York with an old friend. She wanted some head shots just in case an audition opportunity presents itself ...so I took a few shots.

Difficult to do this well without space to set up any kind of backdrop, and room to move. I used two shoe mount flashes, one shot through an umbrella for the main light and the other with a difusser for fill. Here is the result.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Waiting for spring...



We have been in a cold snap for a while now and it's weather like this that makes one yearn for spring. Hopefully this is the last cold snap of this winter. Other than some event photography such as a business convention I just attended, I haven't been taking many photographs lately. So, for inspiration I looked over some of my former shots that I hope to expand on this year. Specifically those of the Mountain Ladyslipper shots I took at Western Acres ...if I can find more of these this year. These are a couple of my former shots of this flower.