I have a secret love for night photography. I guess it is no longer a secret, since I just told you. Shooting at night offers many possibilities that are not possible during the daylight. You can create interesting compositions with long exposure times and multiple strobe firings per frame or light painting. The background scene...
Summer is heating up and I’m getting lots of requests for all kinds of photography. I was contacted my by old friend Ellen Hall to capture some yoga portraits of Amy Ippoliti for the Sunwarrior advertising campaign. Amy told me that Sunwarrior makes some of the best, vegan friendly, protein powder supplements available, so I’ll...
Jayme and I headed to Breckenridge over the Fourth of July weekend to escape the heat, ride our bikes, and enjoy some fireworks. I was impressed with the all of the potential photo shoot locations in the historic downtown area, and spent some time playing with lighting and composition. Fortunately for me, Jayme is a...
You know life is good when your daily job assignment is to hit the Boulder trails with a cute dog and an even cuter girl for a photo shoot. Even after pinching myself, I still found that I’d been contracted to shoot the cover for Colorado outdoor sports and lifestyle magazine Elevation Outdoors. EO is...
The historic buildings in the French Quarter of New Orleans are photographically inspiring. I would have loved to have had a model to do a photo shoot with. I didn’t, so I decided to undertake the challenge of shooting myself! I used a tripod, a remote shutter trigger, and an off camera speedlight to try...
Life is like learning to ride a wheelie. There are many things in life that we wish that we could do, or that we could do better. I’ve always wanted to learn to ride a wheelie, ever since I was a little BMX punk in the 80s. Why didn’t I know how? Simple. I never...
I finally got motivated to pull out the camera gear today, which is a big departure from my last couple posts taken with my phone! I bought some Alien Bee studio strobes and a Vagabond battery for use on location shoots. I brought the gear out in the backyard for some preliminary testing to familiarize...
Driving along the barren interstate at sunset, we were struck by the beauty of the rolling crop fields in central Washington. The sun was setting, and we were reflecting on a spontaneous journey gone by. It seemed like the perfect setting to take some new Facebook profile pics! That’s all for Chapter 5. You can...
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.
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...
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One byproduct of all this crazy Colorado spring weather has been lots of cool clouds to shoot under. Last week I woke up early one morning to notice a cool, moody overcast sky. I was itching to overpower the sun with some of my Strobist gear so I tried rounding up a model at the...
I was hired to shoot some portraits of Robin Peglow from Signs of Life Health. Robin is a certified Holistic Health Counselor, as was looking for some updated photos to promote her business. She wanted photos that evoke a feeling of positivity and health for individual clients, as well as portray an image of maturity...
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