It doesn’t take much thought or effort to use a particular prop and lighting setup to generate several different images. In the images below you’ll find a pull-back that shows my lighting setup in relation to the subject and then eight different images/poses created from that single setup. Yes, the lighting is all the same [...]
This beautiful girl was truly a joy to photograph. Polite and respectful. When kids are like that I bust my butt to do something extra for them. Went over on her session by a half hour. As I mentioned before I added Radio Poppers to my list of equipment this year. It changes the line [...]
Six months of green and color and six months of gray and drab. I like cold weather but I prefer the color of summer to the drab of winter. I really like lilies and here are a couple of images from my backyard. The orange ones came from four plants we bought as part of [...]
. . . but skip the peanuts and Cracker Jacks – I’ll have a beer and a hot dog – and it was only $12.50!!!!!!! I have two older sisters and an older brother. We all live in Rochester and once a month with get together for “Sibling Supper”. My sister Cathy retired from the [...]
Our senior season is just starting so I thought I’d take a quick minute between sessions to illustrate a couple of tips. Following are three images. The first is straight out of Lightroom after having been adjusted for exposure and density. The second image is after retouching and the third image shows the lighting setup. [...]
You Don’t Need the Newest and the Biggest I first bought digital equipment in 2000 to the tune of $40,000. Back then, when digital was first getting started, there were several companies that sold “packages” and I was one of their suckers. My package included a film scanner, a kick-butt (at the time) computer, a [...]