Spring has Srung!
I go away for awhile and come back to spring, sweet!
I'm not allowed to do too much, doctors orders.
I definitely don't want to create more problems!
My diagnosis is not official yet (pathology is having a closer look) but my Doctor thinks the tumor was benign.
Just popping in to say thanks to everyone for all the support!
Just out in the yard with the Droid and caught this at the right time of day.
The best camera and all :~)
Spring has srung! (hey, who the heck took my "P"?)
I go away for awhile and come back to spring, sweet! I'm not allowed to do too much, doctors orders. I definitely don't want to create more problems! My diagnosis is not official yet (pathology is having a closer look) but my Doctor thinks the tumor was benign, I think he's qualified to make that statement. Just popping in to say thanks to everyone for all the support! Out in the yard with the Droid and caught this at the right time of day. The best camera and all, edit in Picnik. Which reminds me did you see that Picnik was bought by Google? Not sure if it will be around Flickr for free for long. Hopefully some better pics soon. My ducks are back. Two Mallards that pop in our pool lid for a few weeks every year. Well back to
sitting on my assrecuperating :P Happy St. Patties Day!
Splish Splash
Draining the Pool. This guy thinks it's a public bath house! Tamron 180mm Macro with a 2X TC for a total of 360mm AND this is almost 100 crop! I like the way the light catches the light Catching up on stream soon.....
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Light on Stick
Fill light provided by light on stick Strobist info: SB-800 mounted on a monopod into a LumiQuest bounce 35mm @ 1/4 pwr Left D700 (aperture priority) Tamron 180mm ƒ3.5@3.5 ISO400 1/320 CLS fired via built in pop up PS, it's a SOOC too ;~) Having a beautiful and sunny and warm weekend! 77 Degrees F! Hope everyone is had a good weekend too! View On Black
Strobist info- Light on Stick-2
Strobist info- Light on Stick-3
Wonderful smell of spring
The wonderful smell of the flowers of spring Get a BIG whiff
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Easter Lilly's from Bill
The wonderful figure head of our company has suddenly and sadly left us.
He lived a full 77 years, and will be sorely missed.
Rest in peace Bill.
Drop that Biscuit, I dare you
180mm Tamson lens, not the fastest lens, (in fact it's the slowest), but sharp as a tack!
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Happy Father's Day!
To all the Baby Daddies out there who take care of there kids, Happy Fathers Day!
Donna's Communion
Whole bunch of technical difficulties but the biggest was the weather! Sure it looks sunny and nice, NOT! It was so stinking cold, this poor kid was freezing. :( She was a great champ though, allowing me to to get a couple of shots in. After about 15 minutes or so we went to plan "B" which was thankfully indoors! Good thing I brought my big black sheet :D Strobist info; SB-800 (fell off the stand because I had it in wrong) 24mm 1/2 through a white umbrella on a HLS camera right CLS fired via SU-800 D700 85mm ƒ1.4@ƒ1.6 ISO200 1/4000 (that's four thousands of a sec)
Donna's Communion
I wanted to try high key too but that was asking a lot from a seven year old. We went out for Ice cream instead :D View On Black Strobist info; SB-800 grid, high back right 105mm 1/4 SB-900 grid, high back left 105mm 1/4 SB-900 into softbox left 24mm 1/4 42" white reflector right Black sheet over windows as BG CLS fired via SU-800 D700 85mm ƒ1.4@ƒ2 ISO400 1/6400* *I wanted to isolate her against a black BG but the sun kept shining through the black sheet, I kept bumping up the speed until finally 1/6400 did the trick. I also needed to up the ISO because I was already at 1/4 pwr on the flashes
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Antoinette
Antoinette was my mother's name and oh boy did she hate it! LOL! I on the other hand love the name <3 For the shots in this door way: I had the 900 on camera pointed at 45 deg up at a white wall. A bounce blocking the front and side of the flash, leaving the top exposed to the ceiling. Never any direct light from the flash. Aperture priority and the 900 set to -0.3 EV TTL control f1.8 @ ISO400 Twitter | Facebook | Blog
Joey aka "the ladies man!"
Had fun shooting all my nephews and nieces last weekend!
I had lost sunlight by this time and moved to flashes, here is what I recall......
Strobist info:
SB-900 through an umbie camera right human light stand (HLS)
SB-800 through a grid back right at an angle to Joey providing rim light HLS
CLS fired via SU-800
Post in Silver Efex Pro
Love is in the air!
Love is in the air!
A nature shot. See I can do more than just portrait shots.... :P From an engagement session I did over the weekend with CLPphoto! I'll be doing there wedding in a few weeks too! Thanks for all the great comments and support Flickr friends! View On Black
Hey batter batter!
View On Black Taken a while ago. After all these shoots the past few weeks, I'm play camera hooky for a while :P
Hawk
6 wins in a row! Let's Go Flyers!
I'm a little excited about about Hockey right now, can you tell?
Got my gear packed for Sunday! Wait what? It's only Tuesday?!
Flyers hockey and my first wedding shoot, boy I'm happy :D
Jen and shaun
Let's go FLYERS!
These light umbrellas actually work as umbrellas! Good thing too as it rained during the whole shoot...
Strobist info:
One SB-800 24mm 1/16 pwr mounted under the umbrella
CLS triggered via radio poppers (PX system)
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Getting ready
This was a practice session for hair and make up, I convinced the bride to try on the dress. Tomorrow's the big day..... View On Black
Flower girl
Blissa and Jason's Flower girl SB-900 through a white umbrella camera right CLS fired via SU-800 View On Black
The big day!
Congratulations to the new weds :D Overcast and raining all day just up to the point of the ceremony. Then the sky opened up and the sun was shining just as she come down the isle! Couldn't have planned it better! This was just before the wedding in the dressing room. One SB-900 Pointed to the white ceiling.... Finally finished editing these images (busy with my real job too...) I thought I might go Flickr-ing for awhile BUT the uploading these pics to the website will KILL my bandwidth, sorry Flickr you'll have to wait :~( Thank you to all the Great comments and feedback you guys leave! I really do appreciate them! As soon as things cool down (busy is a good thing though) I will come by for a visit :D One final note....YEAH FLYERS!!!!!!!!!!!! View On Black
Jenn & Shaun
Hey Flickr! Long time no see! I've been busy taking pictures! TWO weddings in one week! And now a Family shoot and Senior shoot coming up.....Boy my lazy white ### is dragging :P This shot was taken with the 14-24mm edited in Silver Efex Pro. Why the 14-24mm? Because she had 23 people in the wedding party xD
HDR Efex Pro
Jenn and Shaun
Revisit to a 5 stop exposure 1 ev each
HDR Efex Pro then Silver Efex Pro
Wedding strobist style
Jenn and Shaun
All night long my CLS worked perfectly up to this shot :(
I had a 900 off to the left that was to provide fill/rim light. It just wouldn't fire period. UGH!
The light from the right was from an 800 through a softbox. The 800 fired flawlessly all night. It was fired CLS from the SU-800 as commander BUT it was through a Radio popper PX.
The PX fired flawlessly ALL NIGHT! And I'm happy to report the batteries lasted all day and night too!
With the PX system you get the CLS high speed sync and reliability ( your cake and eat it too) Got to get another one of those receivers though.
The other big thing that helped during both weddings was flash battery pack extenders. I was shooting this 2nd wedding with batteries from the LAST wedding!
Not only that but the recycle time was much faster.
Strobist Info:
SB-800 24mm 1/8 through an Amvona softbox right
SB-900 left didn't fire :(
