Mr. & Mrs. Fleck - Portraits

The Flecks are awesome! We've been friends with the Flecks for quite some time (Mr. Fleck married the Mrs. and I, you know) and it was such a pleasure to shoot with them again. They let me expand the shoot from some initial head shots for Mr. Fleck and we were able to get some really good material with Mrs. Fleck as well with the extra time. That, and Sophia stood in for some lighting tests and Antigone arrived just in the nick of time before I had to leave. It was a blast, as it always is with them. 

Amy & Megan - Head shots

After finishing Beth and Emily's head shots a few weeks back, I also got to go get some quick head shots of Amy and Megan for Lark's Song, at one of my favorite indoor locations. I'm working on a more mature look with my portraits lately, less drastically dramatic, but still with a good balance towards light and dark tones. I think it works especially well with film emulation.

Beth & MJ - Engagement

Beth and MJ are engaged! MJ gave me the privilege of working closely with him to plan just how this would would happen. The story was that we would all be going down to the Statehouse to shoot some promo shots for MJ and I. Of course, we would need Beth's help with the camera to get those shots of both of us. I wanted to experiment with a few "couple shots" while we were at such a brilliant location.

We finally set up the final shot when I had received a text saying that the rest of the family had arrived downstairs. The rest is history:

When Beth and MJ had finally settled down a bit, they headed downstairs to celebrate with the rest of the family and change for a special night out and dinner.

Headshots - Beth and Emily

We had a quick little shoot a few days ago to furnish new head shots for Beth and Emily of Lark's Song. Sometimes, its okay to use your model as your lighting stand in. If you do, you just might end up getting some fun shots like this:

Slow Shutter Portraits

Decided to try some more slow shutter portraits last weekend. Karsyn and Hannah obliged to assist me. Using a 580 EX II and the flashlight on my iPhone. With a shutter of about 6 seconds, most of the light streaks are from the iPhone and eventually we just set the flash to manual mode and set it off at intervals. I was not sure about the results on camera at first (as is the case with most experiments), but I was much more pleased when I was able to take a closer look in Lightroom. 

I've learned that any time you have a fresh idea or technique you haven't tried you just have to practice it a good number of times before the results may be pleasing. So don't give up the first time when it doesn't quite look like you had imagined.