Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring!

Nothing says “Spring” to me like the happy yellow of daffodils! My entry for this week’s challenge came from my backyard.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters

I’m a little late to this week’s challenge, but here you go!

VSCO Film 05

Just bought it. Love it. Can’t wait to play with it more. Initial foray:

Link: http://vsco.co/film

How I Spent my Sunday, Part 2

Daughter came over to help me with my lighting assignment – portrait using a continuous light source and a flash/strobe. On the advice of our instructor, I shot her with a much longer lens than the previous week. I’m quite pleased with the results.

Ali doing her best Blue Steel and trying not to laugh. See “Zoolander”

Lovely!

And one in black and white . . .

And here is the best of the motion blur effect I tried to replicate. Given the ambient light in the room, it wasn’t as strong as I’d hoped it would be. Still, it has a bit of an ethereal, Mona Lisa quality to it. This was shot at 100 ISO, 1/13s at f/3.5. After pressing the shutter I zoomed in to create the blur and halo around her face. Next time I’ll do this in a darker room. I did not block off the windows as carefully as I usually do.

How I Spent My Sunday, Part 1

In the morning, Bark for Life! (My first slide show!)

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Speedlight Class

We had fun today! We moved all over the Nevada Museum of Art with our models. This is Tony. we were on the fourth floor. Speedlight to camera right shooting through white umbrella. White reflector providing fill to camera left. The lovely gleam in the elevator doors was from the window directly behind us.

Can you take good portraits with just a single speedlight? Yes, you can.

Tommy

Jacey – by the beautiful window in the lobby (to camera left). Speedlight through white umbrella to camera right for fill.

Darius – also by the window (camera right) with reflected light from speedlight to camera left for fill.

Darius and Jacey

On the roof with sunlight at back of our models.

Spencer

Tony and Viola. In open shade with speedlight through white umbrella at camera left.

Can I recreate this at home?

I am pretty sure I can. I’ll find out on Sunday. I’ve got the lights, the shower curtain, and the ability.

From Wednesday night’s portrait class in Jeff Ross’ studio.

Lighting Practice – Single source lighting – Alison

I think I like this one of my daughter is my favorite of the bunch from our shoot on Sunday. I’m going to try this again with a different lens and a little more of a smile.