Shooting in the dark

Man, the planetarium was dark.

"I can turn the lights up a little bit," Scott said.

Which led us to the end result. I put the camera on a tripod to allow for a long enough exposure to let the existing light bleed through (the red area in the background). I lit the subject with one shoe mount flash in an umbrella and one with a blue gel on the projector.

I really wasn't expecting much, and was pleasantly suprised with end result. I won't show the out of focus ones, though.

Fashion stuff

I threw a couple of these up on my Flickr page and thought I would add some here, too. These are a couple of recent fashion shoots I did for a local magazine.

The first shot was taken in downtown Conway, using the wall of a building that was shaded from the sun. The building next to it - bathed in full sun - had a white wall, which was a really cool reflector for the model. It really made for some great lighting.

The next shot was taken at a strip mall, which didn't necessarily lend itself to a great background for the shot. But, I backed off and used a long lens to compress the shops, and let the lighting coming in from behind the model and bounce off the glass surfaces. It really seemed to help the shot.

The models really made the shots, though. They both seemed to know what I wanted to accomplish and did really well in helping me capture that.

Snow day!

The kids were happy to be home from school, but Sarah was a little disappointed that the snow was too dry to make a snowman. It didn't stop her from making a snow angel, though.

After that, we did decide that the snow held together well enough for a snowball fight. We ducked behind the cars and chased each other around our little front yard until I lobbed one at her, and scored a direct hit to her head.

We pretty much were done with the snow after that. It had stopped falling by that point, anyway. With typical Arkansas weather patterns, the white stuff will probably be gone by the end of the day, anyway. This after seeing temperatures in the 70s over the weekend, to boot.

Got one more shot, this time of the snow that had accumulated on my wife's Mustang. I thought it was kinda neat.


EDIT: Mission accomplished! When the snow began to melt, it made for much better snowman making.