Horses and Tommie Turvey

Hi all!

Covered an event for the Alabama Horse Council's annual fair in Montgomery. I had a booth showing my horse action portraits and nearly filled up 4 pages of contacts in the guest book.

My booth was next to Tommie Turvey, who is a horseman extraordinaire! I took this shot of him during his show. I cheated and my assistant Katie and I mounted a couple strobes opposite of each other in the stands as it was dark as a black cat a night there. Amazing what you can do with two lights.

Cheers!

Shiney

Shooting shiney stuff can be a challenge. No more a challenge when we dress Katie up in a not so shapely bunny suit and accessories for a gray card image.

This subject matter is difficult only if you can't see or figure out what to do with all the reflections.

Cheers!

Simple is good

Ya know...sometimes simple is just better.

Yesterday, shot a catalog for a client that distributes yarn all over the planet. All those knitting needles were put into action when the economy went all broke and stuff. Anyway, here is a shot I did using a small strobe fired through a "brolly" (love those things!). Just a wee bit of balancing with daylight and it looks real sweet. The strobe gave us a real pop on the detail which is what the client asked we concentrate on.

*Side note: this is Amanda. First ever photo shoot.

Simple. Don't complicate.

Cheers and Merry Christmas!

Chuck

Shooting ads is fun!

This is from my dance/ballet catalog. We shoot ads every once in a while but they seem to be wanting more of them. We shot this yesterday after dragging "stuff" from out in the studio yard to grunge the shot up.

This was pretty simple; two ProFoto heads, one each in a Mole-Richardson fresnel.

Fun!

Horses!

Good Sunday all!

I was assigned to shoot a photo essay on the horse industry in central Alabama by a local magazine. I thought I'd post a few of the intial shots here before the magazine gets them. Publication date is to be the February issue of Birmingham Metro Magazine.

Turkey Day!

Oh what the heck!

With a houseful of family, Elaine and I decided to do a nice menu and I figured I'd just share it with everyone.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving . . . keeping in touch!

Often times I show a shot here and a shot there of my dance/team/ballet shoots for my Florida client. This time, I figured I'd show a final shot. Here's an image that was used as a full page ad in a trade magazine. It's basically a bright white background with an open strobe for the main light.

Sometimes the most simple set up yields very nice result.

Cheers!

Chuck