Last Friday night, I had the opportunity to do a water shoot at Anicia Beckwith’s studio, Pixella Productions. Anicia is an amazing professional photographer based in Reno who offers studio space and workshops in her “spare” time. Her very large studio is northwest Reno was set up for us to shoot models in water.
Model: Charles Koons.
Model: Ariel Wickman, Hair and Makeup: Cystal Bell
They’ve faded a bit, as Sweetie gave them to me last Saturday, but they seemed a fitting subject for practice with my 10° grid last night. I added our cake topper to the mix, a little rim light to the left, and here you go…
My wedding bouquet had lilies just like these.
Favors from our wedding and a special hand-thrown gift from a long-time family friend to commemorate our happy day.
The bay window provides me with lovely light. Shot at 1600 ISO, f/4 and 1/200s using my 40mm pancake lens
Nina was very interested in whatever was going on outside in the cul de sac.
Maya had to check on what I was doing. She looks kind of ticked off, but she wasn’t. I promise.
Jezebel chilled at the other end of the sofa.
I bought a set of grids for my Einstein. Grids are used to restrict the spread of the light. The other night I took the 10° grid for a ride. I shot these in our family room. The light spread is so narrow you can’t see the furniture behind her.
From our portrait class last Wednesday night. Caroline came in full 18th century dress. And when I say “full,” I mean down to her corset!
Pheenix was one of our volunteer models on Wednesday night. She’s a beauty.
These portraits were shot using fluorescent lights. Pulled back to show a bit of the set up.
I’ve known Eric for a few years now. He is a fellow photographer and on Wednesday night he was assisting in Jeff Ross’ studio portrait class. We students cajoled him into stepping out of the dark and into the light (which in this case was two fluorescent lights to camera left).
Carissa Snedeker Photography 