I spend some time the last two weekends up in Estes Park. My friend Io lives there so I stopped by. She has a porch. And a dog named Amber. I have an 85mm Perspective Control Lens. And a photography problem. This is what happened.
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If you have your wedding at the Pastures of Plenty in North Boulder County, you just might have a bonfire. And if you do, John Howlett from Big Bang Catering will be there to get it started for you. His preferred tool is a propane weed burner. By the look on his face, I think...
Here is part 2 of the Steve Z portrait in the hotel series. Can you believe that I made you wait that long for it? Yeah, I know, what can I say? I’ve been busy with the big wedding month of June. But the big crunch is over and I’m back on track to blog...
Sometimes when shooting a wedding, there is a little bit of down time during dinner. The hotel interior of the Omni Interlocken Hotel has some cool architecture. Chad and I had a good time taking some fun photos. Chad on the lens, me on the landing.
So I was walking down the street a block from my studio, and I stumbled upon a mobile art happening. There was a crowd of people gathered around a car, and they were all painting it. This of course, required immediate picture taking. Upon a little inspection, here is what I found out. The GIVING...
I shot this pic in the hallway of The Breakers in Palm Beach. I thought the combination of the long hallway and the two boys was just like the twin girls who were in the movie ‘The Shining’!
I had a lot of fun taking pictures of my nephews. I’m still enthusiastic enough with photography that I’m always shooting when I have willing subjects. It doesn’t get any more willing than this! Look at these poses! The playground in Frenchtown NJ is classic. It has lots of old-school playground features. You know, the...
On the second day, the sun came out and we were able to go play in the yard. Grammy’s house is a cabin in the woods. So we headed out to take some family pics for the photo album. Things started out a little slowly at first. Travis wasn’t super exited for the posed shot...
So I made a long overdue trek back east to visit with family last week. I of course took lots of photos and am trying to dig my way out of the backlog! I coordinated the trip with my sister so that I could see my two nephews, Travis and Everett. My first day in...
I’m always following the weather during the winter, tracking the big storms that yield glorious dumps of fluffy powder. I wasn’t able to get away too much this year, just too much business stuff combined with a pretty dry winter. Well the storms finally showed up in late March and early April, and I was...
I’m still working on post some more pics from the Vail trip. Here is a fun little sequence that I caught while hanging out in Lionshead waiting to get on the lift. Cute stuff.
For the third class of body form photography, we shot with a single strobe with a soft box. We warmed up with some long exposure shots using just the modeling light. Then on to some strobe shots in the black room. But then we moved to the white room. I enjoyed this high key setup...
This is the second installment of photos from my nude body study of light and shadows. This week we used 1 or two constant light sources. There were no modifiers used to soften the light, thereby producing very dramatic light and shadows.
When you go to a photography convention, there is a lot of inherent nerdy-ness in the air. Fortunately there is a prominent amount of libations that balance this out. But sometimes, these two worlds collide with unpredictable results. First, someone brings a Ray Ring Flash to a party. Second, someone (me) brings a Canon G10...
Well here we are, at the end of another year. The ol’ Steve Dash Z blog has gone through numerous transformations. First it was my only blog, for both my professional and personal photographs. Then I split off the weddings into their own blog. Then I changed my mind yet again, and now all my...
I originally posted these pictures as part of a pictorial blog post, without many words. Originally I felt that each picture told a thousand words, as they say, so I let the pictures do the talking. Since Tuesday, the story of these pictures has evolved, so I have included them again in a new post....
And now for something completely different but exactly the same thing. The last shots I posted super colorful and posed, while these shots are close up and arty. I like these better.