Sunday, May 23, 2010

My other assistant...


Ok..geez! Why is everyone so "I wanna see a picture of your assistants"?
I put up Katie already so here's one of Lindsay (she shoots events for those that need
someone in that area :-)

She works hard...is always early...drinks coffee...perfect!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Further on the simple ...





Ok..had 20 minutes to shoot this thing...otherwise, alley traffic would have flattened this whole operation...

I've indicated throughout my blog and other venues that I am a big fan of keeping things simple when complicated would...complicate. So, here are three travel strobes with reflectors, one gritty alley, one model, one assistant and my trusty Vagabond. Shot on my Nikon D3X at about mid-day.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

More Beauty


Here is a beauty shot of Sabrina Sikora. Based in Hong Kong, she was visiting family in Georgia and answered a "Hail Mary" email about testing...here she is in one of my one light beauty shots.

BTW...took a retouching class from David Cuerdon. It took my beauty retouching to the next level...still have a few more levels to go but I did like this result.

Cheers!

Monday, May 10, 2010

Back to simple


Shot a series of shots for an LA based web-zine and here is what I finished up with. Shot the beauty and the jeans ads with one strobe in front (used one to light the background on the beauty shot) and available light on the bracelet shot.

Travel far...keep it simple :-)

Cheers!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Trips and keeping your eyes open


Ok..Long freakin trip! Birmingham to Los Angeles to Ft. Lauderdale to Vancouver (Canada) to Birmingham. Tired? Yepper.

Anyway..while trying to get to Vancouver to meet with Elaine (wife) who was there for a conference, I got waylaid in Minneapolis for 5 hours. That's the bad news. Good news is my brother lives there so he picks me up, we do a great Italian dinner with him and family, and drops me off at the airport where I can resume my trek.

On the way there...the weather gets a bit ugly so I lean out the window and shoot this sky shot. Staying on your toes is key here folks. If you see something unusual, shoot first and ask yourself questions later. This shot was posted on Facebook and immediately seen by someone that wanted to use it for stock. Stock market I bet.

Cheers!

ps: Love Vancouver!!!