It’s a sickness. I know. I was going for a more dramatic feel today.
More at this gallery.
I love this one the best. Me and Jezebel. Just the key light at camera left at 45 degree angle.
Profile. Key light to camera left, hair light to camera right and slightly behind me.
This is looks like a “Citibank commercial” shot.
I’d moved the key light forward for the next two and added my SpeedLite flash to bounce light off the ceiling to give my hair a bit more definition.
More fill-light on this one.
My daughter and her fiancé came over yesterday (Day 294). The plan was to shoot her, but daughter also asked me to shoot him, even though he wasn’t prepared clothing-wise for it. And, of course, I had to shoot two of them together. It was great practice for me and fun for them. Feel free to browse my gallery over at SmugMug to see a lot more from this shoot.
Our beautiful daughter.
Same shot but in Black & White.
Our soon-to-be Son-in-Law.
The happy couple .
Kissy-face.
Ah, love . . .
Having some fun.
Yes, he’s a big boy. Go Wolf Pack!
Daughter and her fiance were supposed to come over this weekend for some portraits, but they couldn’t make it. Sweetie kindly consented to being my model.
He’s such a good sport!
And then he invited me to join the party . . .
I’m practicing a lighting technique and Nina was nosing around underfoot. She wanted up in my lap. One thing led to another . . .
Trying to get my face properly lit while Nina scopes out the live view on my laptop..
She is quite the wiggler.
Me checking out the laptop. Nina squirming some more.
Me, trying to avoid “the tongue.”
She got me!
Smooch!
I love this little dog so much!
This week’s photo challenge is “Mine.” There isn’t much I consider mine. Not really.
I have possessions, but all of them can be swept away at any time.
The bank still owns this.
There are fleeting moments I wish were “mine.”
We have creatures who share our lives . . . but are they mine?
The way she orders me around, there is no way she’s “mine.”
This one lets me share “her” bed.
She turned me into a middle-aged woman with a little dog, but Miss “You have to wrestle me to the ground to clip my nails” is not mine.
My loyal boy is not “mine” either.
Fruit of my womb, and I’ll love her until the end of time, but definitely not “mine.”
Love of my Life. We said, “I do,” but we don’t own each other. We share our lives.
There is just one thing that is really and truly mine.
Me.
More practice with portrait lighting. Key light (soft box) was to camera left and above my head, with a bit of fill light (soft box) on my right side (as you look at me). I held a white poster-board on my lap to bounce light up to soften shadows under my jaw. Post process I softened the clarity of the portrait in Adobe Bridge.
I shot this in my office a couple of days ago. I like this one a whole lot better than the ones I shot today.
I’ve been putzing around with these all day in between doing chores and running around. Anyway, I need to start working on using clamshell lighting. I’ve used it before when we shot models in our lighting class, but in that case, our instructor set everything up. Today I took a stab at it. Here is a very simple explanation of clamshell lighting, for those of you not familiar with the concept.
Obviously I’m going to need to practice this quite a bit (and with someone other than myself!).
For this next one I put an accent light behind me.
Carissa Snedeker Photography 