Unintentional Self Portrait ...

... it can happen anytime to a photographer. This was more about the equipment than being a self portrait. It just happened that i kinda liked it.

heh.

Nice Light...

 ..and two nice young ladies for me to take photos of. They're sisters and mom wanted to get some beach photos of them. Except for the almost constant fiddling with hair, like most young girls do, this was an easy and pretty quick shoot as they were pretty relaxed and natural with the camera. If only all were like that. I really think God created 3 year olds just to make me crazy.
heh.

okie dokie...

Double Your Rainbow...

Yeah, how about that?  Two rainbows at one time. Same drive by clouds that caused the drops on my lens in the previous photo.

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Raindrops Keep Falling On My Lens...

...well, actually, we've had all these drive by rain clouds around for the past week or so that will sprinkle a bit and keep on flying. I was paying attention to what I was shooting instead of what I was shooting with! I caught it and cleaned my Lens /Tiffen UV - haze filter and had to redo the shot. I don't think the second was as good as this one but, that's the way it is sometimes.

 Nice folks...it was a good shoot and late in the morning. The light was bright, but the same clouds that were causing problems helped with the sun.

Go figure.

 see ya..

New Softbox.

 So, I got my new 24" x 24" handy dandy softbox in the mail the other day and did some test shots with it. I like it. I can fold it up to almost nothing to carry it around for location stuff.

 Shot with a Canon 40D and a 50mm 1.8 lens.

This is Rick, I made him volunteer for a few shots today..heh. Does he look thrilled or what?

 You an achieve some dramatic photos with a single light and no reflector.

 I did this one in B&W, mainly because of the ripples in his shirt and his expression.

Here's a couple of more in color and a little bit of a different angle.

 I used a small reflector on this one to put a little fill on his left side.

Here's one of my next door neighbor..another "volunteer" heh. His wife didn't want anything to do with it..typical. I would have had to wait for hair..makeup..the right mood. Most guys don't give a crap.

Till next time..

Another (Storm) Cloud photo.

Clouds have certainly been, by sheer chance, an ongoing subject with my posts in the past few days and today was no exception. I was waiting for the folks for my first shoot of the evening to arrive while keeping an eye on  this big storm that was moving in and thankfully it stalled and eventually disbursed. I took a couple of test shots.

 I got some great portrait shots with that dramatic sky!

Face In The Cloud

 It seems that I've had my head in the clouds during the past couple of days, but hey, I see what I see.

 Right before I saw that dragon flying around in the twilight sky in the previous post, this chubby face caught my eye.

 I can't help think about the giant Sta-Puft marshmallow man from Ghost Busters when I see it. heh.

I promise you that I did no creative photo editing... even where his "face" looks 

brighter than the rest of the cloud..that's the way it was in the sky.