Full Length Portraits

This is Sara. I'd like to start off with how awesome this person is, such a great personality and I had a really good time doing this shoot with her. She wasn't feeling  100 % but still showed up as planned and made the best of it and for that i was very impressed with her keeping her word. To also ad to this, her boyfriend went fishing and she still came to the photo shoot and said she would join him later. Did I mention she really enjoys fishing and being outdoors. So I thank you Sara for your loyalty and for being involved in what i love doing (Photography). When someone is this beautiful you really can't take a bad photo so she made this so easy. Here I will post a couple of photos and post more later, she did say she wanted to do this again so hopefully I'll be posting even more soon. Here's the setup, Now I should mention that I don't use a flash meter, I used to in the film days but now just set up and find i'm usually good from the start. I don't use exact ratios either so can't tell you what they are, I've been doing this a long time and now just go by what i see. I will ad though that I've just started doing portraits again and it being new to me with digital meaning the editing is what i'm trying with new and different things and just looking for a good look that I'm happy with. Oh and of course my backgrounds I placed her in are HDR done in Potomatix Pro. Using the Sigma 10-20mm 4-5.6 at 10mm. I use all portable flash, yongnuo EX II for my lighting, Fill was at camera left, 40" shoot through umbrella, main light was 2 24" soft boxes stacked above one another used like a strip box at camera right, another was mounted to the ceiling aimed at a 9 foot white seamless paper background just above and behind the model. Camera, Sony alpha 580, 100 ISO, 1/125 sec, f8. 18-55 Sony lens.  

 

                 And of course I had to shoot those gorgeous legs

April Songbirds

Well here we are another spring season, yet still quite cool in temperature. I've taken a few songbird photos. I wanted to get what I could without the vegetation on the trees. Sort of like different bird species in almost the setting or background. I find these photos look good paired together enlarged on my walls. Time has been so tight with building the in home studio and finding models, taking photos then editing everything, but I really love it and can't get enough, it's just taking longer than i expected especially with finding models.