A year of self #41 – Walkabout

I’m taking a Canon 24-105mm f/4 for a test drive right now. Current owner is offering it at an extremely attractive price. He brought it to me this morning and at lunch I took it on a walkabout. So far I’m quite impressed. It is fast and the glass is very, very good.

Model Shoot: Maternity

Kayla is expecting in about two months and posted on one of the Facebook photography groups I frequent that she was interested in getting some maternity shots done for her portfolio. We met, hit it off, and will be working together over the next couple of months to try out various techniques. Last Sunday, I met with Kayla and her husband, Cory, to do a ‘getting to know you’ shoot.

I shot these in a natural light studio on a dark and rainy day, so my ISO was averaging 800 and I shot fairly wide open (with a tripod…no hand-held for this session). I like the softness of these images.

Here are a few.

A year of self #40

A year of self #39 – Window light all around

Just a quick one today. I had a shoot yesterday morning and another one this afternoon, so my weekend has been full of doing what I love. I took this photograph in our living room about 11:30 in the morning. I have a black sheet as backdrop and I am facing our north-facing living room bay window. The day is overcast. Over my shoulder at camera left is window light from the window at the back and left side of the room, creating a decent rim light. From the right was a bit more light coming through our front door (glass storm door), bringing in a bit more light (how much I am not sure). A few processing tweaks, and here you go. My eyes are not as sharp as I would have liked them to be as I was shooting rather wide-open and my DoF was rather short. 50mm at 640ISO.