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.

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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 :-)

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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.

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ps: Love Vancouver!!!

Daisy

Yes...been too long since my last update/post/blog/schmog. Anyway, Elaine and I are the new pround "parents" of Daisy, our new 8 week old Golden Retriever pup.

More pictures will surely follow . . .

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Chuck

...more vacation.

So...Elaine and I are driving back from dinner (she was driving) when I saw this stand of white birch. These just gotta be my favorite kind of tree! We spun around and I jumped out into this sloppy wet snow bank and ripped off a few frames . . .

Sometimes, when you see something out of the corner of your eye...just look!

Cheers!

Chuck

V a c a t i o n

Vacation...Killington Vermont. Skiing in the Green Mountains . . .time to relax. Right. My wife says I see life through a viewfinder.

Anyway, I was fiddling around with my iPhone and some fun app store goodies and came up with these interesting images...thought I'd share them. Lots of fun places to get interesting images and I never knew how fun iPhone images were till I started fiddling about with them.

You can be sure this isn't the last you've seen of this stuff :-)

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Bankers

I just love photographing bank folks...

First, they are very nervous. Second, they always make unkind comments about what they're wearing. They self criticize their hair, make up and did I say their hair?

Anyway . . . I do like this kind of assignment because I get to use some people skills that make them feel comfortable and that I am there to make them look really good. This particular image wasn't on the shot list but I loved this conference room and the woman I was assigned to shoot was very pretty . . . hope they use it!

Another of my simple is better images...one 24x24" softbox and pretty good shutter drag to let the ambient light in for some mood.

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