An experiment with using blogger

I've been frustrated with my previous posts only having one photo show up so this post is an experiment with the formatting of this blog using blogger. I hope to have 3 photos posted taking about half the width of the blog.

An Apple In My Kitchen

My wife asked me to bake her an apple pie, so... I got out my camera.

Unsung photo gear

When I shoot outdoors I prefer to wear boots. I never know exactly where I'm going to want to be and boots give me more flexibility. With this set where Shealyn is in the creek, I had to get into the water to get the point of view I wanted. If you are going to do non-urban location shooting, I think a great pair of water proof boots are a must.

Shealyn was just finishing a change in make-up as I took this photo. What will follow is her set in a creek of spring run off. Very cold. I must say that it was Shealyn that wanted to do the set in the creek, so I wasn't the mean taskmaster here!

Anatomy of a photoshoot

I had this concept in my head for a while and found a model who's look I liked. I wanted to do some fashion/beauty/music. I've spent much of my life being a musician so this idea resonated with me. I still do not have the shot that I started out with in me head. But I knew we wouldn't get that one shot, because the location we used won't give the look I envisioned, but it offered a lot of other nice looks. The look I have in me head will have to wait for fall and another shoot.

Zoreh is a beautiful girl. She needed help with instrumental posture and if you play strings, you will see the deficiency. Tammy is a lady you will only see in the first picture here. But the photos would not have been as good without her. Tammy is my MUA (make-up artist)/photographer assistant. I've used Tammy a number of times. If I want a gal to look her best, Tammy is my go to guy, er.. gal.



The way I work is to meet the two at our location and let Tammy get to work while I set up and play with the light before shooting.

Here we started working about 6:30 am because I love the creamy golden light of early morning. Once make-up was done we got rolling.

This shot was early in the session. The sun is low and coming at her from camera right, leaving a very dark area in the bottom of the frame. I had Tammy climb over the edge of the bridge and hold my TTL flash at the edge of the bridge, just out of the frame on the left, pointed down towards Zoreh's legs and feet. To get the shot right (the way I wanted it) took several tries to get the light balanced. This is a shot I could not have gotten with out help. Getting help is my tip of the day.

Megan

Megan recently graduated from the U of U in Dance. I borrowed the cars from my neighbor.

Last night I did a shoot with a trio of models and 4 high end sports cars. Here is the slide show version of the shoot.

Dance Concert

I do concert work. It is one form of photography that I just love. I was hired to shoot a dance concert in WVC and these are some of the photos from the concert.

Facebook liars

Facebook made themselves into liars today as they had advertised customizable URL's for fan pages which were running prior to May 31st and which had a minimum of 25 fans. A few hours before the announced time to get a custom URL FB changed the requirements. This makes the first announcement a lie and makes Facebook a liar. We now know they cannot be trusted.

Mashable posted about the availablity and the change of rules. Mashable also posted a link on its FB page where FP page owners could find each other and become fans of each others pages to reach the magic 100 members.

As I went about joining fan pages and posting a hello, I received a message from Facebook that I had been temporarily (no set time was declared) be suspended from posting to the wall because of over use. The message stated that I had been warned, but in fact, I have still to receive any warning or email or facebook mail about this.

Today Facebook is a bunch of misleading lying jerks.

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