VSCO Film 05

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

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.

Lighting Practice – Single source lighting – Ryan

My daughter and her sweetheart came over on Sunday to help my fellow photographer, Misha, and me with our assignment to create portraits using only a single light source.

Direct light to camera left (about 45 degree). Light fill at camera right using white poster board.

Direct light 90 degree to Ryan – split lighting.

Diffused light to camera right. No fill.

Diffused light to camera right with fill on left from white poster board

Alison

Sweetie and the Pups

We did yesterday’s shoot in the backyard, so of course, the dogs had to stick their noses in every once in a while.

They love getting skritched.

This is about as close to a kiss as one will get from Buddy. Somehow he never learned lickey-face, so the most one gets is a wave of his nose in front of your face. (Which is fine with both of us)

Nosey Nina.

My Valentine’s Day Gift

I asked Sweetie to sit for me. I claimed my gift today. Here are a few from our shoot.

Sweetie poses for me again

He’s a good sport. Next time I’m taking him out in the middle of the sagebrush…not the backyard.

Photo-shoot: Alex

My photography group did a model shoot today at Hidden Beach at Lake Tahoe. It was my first model shoot and I was feeling a bit like a fish out of water. First of all, it was going to be a lot of photographers, and what appeared to be not very many models. I worried that I’d have to elbow the guys out of the way to get any decent photos. I had ridden up with another photographer friend of mine, Sally, and she had some of the same concerns.

When we got there it turned out there were only three models and a lot of “the guys.” Hmm.

Then I spied Alex sitting on a rock near one of the models who was getting ready. He had on a neat hat, sunglasses and a half buttoned shirt over an undershirt. Oh, yeah, I wanted to shoot him. “Who is THAT guy?” I asked one of the old-timers. “Oh, he’s just the boyfriend of one of the models.”

Not one to let an opportunity go by, and knowing that all the other guys would be shooting the girls in bikinis, I walked up to him and asked him if he minded I shot him. He didn’t mind at all, but noted that he might look pretty tired as he hadn’t had any sleep the night before.

Sally and I tag-teamed the shoot, sharing reflectors and fill-light duties, and along with some help from another photographer, Ray, we were off to the races.