Sydney, Natalie & Kody

Feet

I feel feet are another wonderful milestone that should be captured. A childs feet changes so quickly year after year month after month, that a parent has all they can do to keep up with the constant necessity of purchasing new shoes.

Above are a capture of Kody’s and Below are Sydney’s feet, two of my three Children. I am not sure how I missed capturing Natalie’s feet, my third child, but never fear I will be sure to capture them soon.

Kody almost 6 Months

Here is Kody at almost 6 months old!

I decided to take out the umbrella and flash and play around again last night.

Had a blast with the twins. They cooperated about as well as any 6 month olds. At least I managed to get a few great shots. Their Eyes Just light up for me.

Finally Got Dad

Well this is Dad, Convinced him to tag along to a buddies house to check out a sweet M3, and then sprung on him that he had to model. As you can tell is wasn't prepared to be photographed, but we still had a good time.

This was done with Just 1 flash and 1 reflector. Maybe you are as shocked as I was when I saw what can be done with just 1 flash and a reflector.

More to photos to come as I am excited to try more things with my flash and reflector combo.

Christmas Gifts

For Christmas this year I was spoiled. I recieved a background stand, light stands and umbrellas and a reflector with a stand.

With all that gear I headed to my buddies house to practice. Learning what was possible with 1 flash and a reflector. I was amazed.

However, With the use of his flashes in addition to my flash and a reflector we where able to light the background and provide a hair light. Which produced pictures like you see here of Allen.

I am excited to start shooting more portraits of people. So I am looking for volunteers to shoot pictures of, any takers?

Off Camera Flash Meetup Nov 2009

OCF NOV 2009
Originally uploaded by kguyot

My First Off Camera flash meetup I participated and this is one of the photographs I shot. I learned a lot about using 1 flash, an umbrella and reflector. the results where amazing. What I enjoy about this photo is the shadows. I know some may think her face is too dark, but it was the effect I was going for.

Off Camera Flash

Off Camera Flash

One of my first pictures using off camera flash. What a difference! No longer will I have to blind my subjects with harsh on camera flash! So exciting, but I have a lot to learn about lighting!

Mom & Son a Creative Approach

Mom & Son a Creative Approach

Shot this photography this morning using a few techniques I learned at a seminar I just attended. I also decided to be a little creative and use a post processing filter called cold tone.

The techniques applied of course is rule of thirds, but the one I tried was using a leading diagonal. I use the arms/shoulders to create a diagonal up to Moms face. Yet another Technique, Make Mom Look Good! Also I use a bounce card behind my flash and my flash pointed to the ceiling. The bounce card put catch lights in their eyes.

Backyard Sunset

Back Yard Sunset

Shot this off my deck in to may backyard this fall. In Lightroom I played around with the black level and Highlights to make the colors pop!

This was taken with my wifes new Point-&-Shoot Samsung HZ15-W

Sunflower

Sunflower

I was at a car show this weekend and there happened to be some flowers around. So I took time out to shoot this beauty.

Latest Kid Photos

Natalie


Kody


Sydney

My Twins

Introducing the Latest Edition to the Family:

Natalie


Kody

Beautiful Eyes

Beautiful Eyes

I shot this pic at my first commissioned work this past weekend. This Little girl has the most amazing eyes. I also enjoyed how the background fade out to Black.

Ducks Ducks Ducks

Ducks Ducks Ducks

What is it with ducks at parks that follow you everywhere you go, looking for a free hand out. My favorite part of this pick is that one of the ducks is landing/Taking Off not sure which, but his wings are spread.

Spring is Here

Spring is Here

Shot this at a local park of my Daugther! So glad spring is here! I just love power hour, nothing like soft natural sunlight for the perfect pictures!

Blue Eyes

Blue Eyes

Well I noticed I had not posted anything at all for March. So I dug up a shot from this month and posted it! Had some great natural outdoor light in this shot to help light up my Daughter's face!

Inspire

This photo challenge, with Ed's Photography and Milestones, was to take individual photos representing each letter of "Inspire".

INSPIRE

For this image of Inspire all but the letter 'N' came from signs in Downtown Holland, MI. It wasn't till after returning home I realized I needed a letter 'N'. So I rushed down to our local mall to find an 'N' and got lucky to find a Younkers.

I have done this before using architecture to make up letters of peoples last names which was way more challenging. Using letters from signs was a lot easier, although less creative it was still a lot of fun.

I still find capturing the letter I difficult due to how narrow the letter is so in these images I just cropped the I. The first I is from an illuminated Exit sign and the last I is from a music store specializing in guitars called Firehouse Guitars. As for the rest of the letters I'll let you guess where they came from.

Classic Guitar

Classic Guitar

I shot this picture shortly after I received my canon 50mm f/1.4 for Christmas. Rather than shooting the whole guitar I was trying to capture the natural beauty of the wood grain as it ran through the body of the guitar. I was also looking for more of an artistic shot. Taking my time up front and imagining how I wanted this to look before I started shooting helped me to achieve my goal.

I enjoy what I will call "playing" my guitars. I have 1 acoustic pictured here, 1 6 string electric and 1 4 string electric bass.

Cootie Bugs

This photo challenge, with Ed's Photography and a new photographer from Milestones, was to take a photography representing "Toys".

Cootie Bugs

My daughter got the Game Cootie from Santa Claus this year and I thought what better to shoot a picture of then this classic game.

I shot this on my new Denim Background I got for Christmas using a external flash mounted on camera. I placed a white cloth over the the flash to try and soften the light. I also bounced the flash off a white ceiling. There was some ambient halogen lights in the room as well. A little post processing to brighten the colors helped as well.

Special thanks to my Wife, since I don't have a good way to hold the background, she lent a few hands.

New Background

New Backgorund

Shot this with my new toys from Christmas. A new background and my 50mm f/1.4. I also tried a new trick where I placed a white cloth over the flash to try and soften the light. I really like how that worked and at this time I don't have many other options.