Small Update

Haven't had much time to update daily.

A little while back I shot a panel of parents of Autistic children. It was pretty interesting. The first image here is the one that we chose, although I don't know if we ran the photo at all. That's something that happens at times. Oh well.

It wasn't a special lighting thing or anything. Just waiting for moments until they came. Patience is a huge part of this job at times. You have to watch people for a while and figure out your shots. Looking for neat angles and then finding points where people do things that are interesting.

Below is another neat image I shot just today. This evening in fact. It took me a whole 5 minutes to set up and shoot since well, I seem to be getting pretty good at shooting product shots on the edge of my bathtub.

Yep, that's the edge of my bathtub. The wall of the shower is behind the camera equipment.

This was lit by a single flash, at 1/4 power from the left with a shoot through umbrella.

I set the F stop pretty high so that the equipment would be pretty much totally in focus. Also, that gave me some room to really ramp the power of the flash up so that I could wash out that background.

The shadows under the camera and the flash are neat since they kind of fall off at the edge of the tub. Quite a precarious place to balance all that stuff I might say.

I took a shot of this stuff so I could send the picture to someone who I hope will want to buy
the equipment to help fund me getting a new camera body. I've been needing something better with more mega-pixels and a faster frame per second rate.

Ok, well I need to keep at studying for my last exams EVER. I'm graduating in just over a week. It's scary. I don't have any work lined up. That's the scariest part of all.