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A photo and lighting place! Here I'll post some stuff I've shot in the process of learning.

Mostly, I shoot with: Nikon D700 or my NEW D7000,

Sigma lenses:
* 70-200mm f/2.8 HSM-II (sports & portrait - SHARP!)
* 24-70mm f/2.8 HSM (my fave),
* 105mm EX macro (VERY sharp!), &
* My new 12-24mm EX HSM (WIDE!).
Other:
* Nikkor 70-300 f/4-5.6 VR HSM (pretty cheap, disposable, pretty sharp out to 200mm and a long reach with a crop frame),
 * Nikkor 70-210mm f/4 (light and compact, but not
as sharp as the Sigma 70-200 EX),
* Nikkor 60mm micro (UBER SHARP LIKE THE SIGMA 105 EX).

Flash stuff:
* Nikon SB800 (2, with ttl cord),
* 4 Nikon SB-25/26s (old, manual, reliable, nice),
 * 6 ancient Sunpak 611 flashes (old, manual, reliable, nice) with big SLA battery packs for studio, tabletop macro and portraits (GN=168 = lotsa light for a $50 flash).

And tons of stands, umbrellas, soft-boxes, mounts hot & cold shoes, cords, pocket wizard radio triggers, reflectors, scrims, backdrops, adapters, snoots, grids, batteries , chargers, bags & cases, gewgaws, gimcracks, whatchamacallits, doohickeys, thingamajigs, whatnots, widgets, et cetera.

I love to shoot out on the street, but the technical aspects of photography/lighting are fascinating - and sometimes vexing. I am fortunate to shoot with motivated and inquisitive photographers.

I am available for portraits, senior photos & product photography. evenings and weekends.

Commercially printed copies (up to 24" x 30" of most photos seen here are available on high quality paper for framing.

24 April 2011

Joe McNally, David Hobby and more shots from the street

Spent Saturday morning doing a few shots for Sekkii. We worked Alley A in downtown Columbia. Great cloudy day for using flash. I decided to do a 1-lite shoo, trying to make it look like nighttime while shooting in daylight. Needed a rim-light on some for separation, but didn't have room behind Sekkii in the small alley. Shoot noir - get noir.

Strobist: Nikon D700 @ ISO 200, Sigma 70-200 2.8 EX @ F/5.6, Nikon sb-25 @ 1/2 power in shoot-through brolly with reflector (white) fill, pocket wizards.

Josh
Sekkii & Josh _0397 bw

Sekkii
Sekkii & Josh PAS_0421

Sekkii_ PAS_3250 bw

A fellow walking through the ally while we were shooting, so I coopted him to join in the image.
Sekkii_ PAS_0265

Test shot the day before the shoot.
Sekkii 2 bw

Went to the Joe McNally / David Hobby Flashbus tour in St. Louis with John Leach. GREAT presentation by two super shooters.

John at lunch
Not again 2 bw

w00t! In the middle of the show at the last stop of Joe McNally and David Hobby's 2011 Flash Bus Tour, he snagged me as the victim subject for a demonstration on stage. He took off his glasses and said "Here, put these on." Joe was gracious enough to give me the image at the end of the presentation. Kinda cool to get your portrait by one of the best shooters in the past 50 years.
The last stop - Joe McNally Photo

A sepia sunrise this week
Sepia sunrise
Posted by at 4/24/2011
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