Quickbooks My Enemy

Quickbooks has been my enemy for the past week. I have been fighting it every step of the way, but the more I fight, the more I learn. The closer I am getting to understanding this beast. Soon I will know enough about it to pass the work onto someone else so that they can do it and I can concentrate on shooting. Shooting is what I love to do. Quickbooks is not in the list of fun things I do, yet it needs to be done.  So what do I do?  I stop the reconciling for a few minutes, pull out the camera, and I shoot.

Sometimes I take a breath.

Sometimes I need to stop and take a breath. Soak up everything going around me, and then take the shot.
Sometimes I need to remind myself to slow down and then take the shot.
Sometimes this helps me focus.
Sometimes.
Sometimes I need to react and not think at all.
Sometimes I need to seize the moment and capture it before it's gone.
Sometimes.

Diving Counties Part 2

Diving Counties Part 1

A lesson from Denis Reggie

You may remember in yesterday's post a picture of my son with the light going across his face from light to dark. Today's pic is a lesson that I learned from Denis Reggie that really helps to light the face even in a dark church. He calls it foofing, and it's a technique that allows me to light the face nicely without blasting a flash right on the face. I get the directional light from my flash by foofing it off into the distance, bouncing it off of a wall that is 40 feet away and letting it hit the subjects face in a nice beautiful way. This photo is an example of why it was essential for me to go to Imagine USA to learn from the best. I can't wait to use all that I have learned in this years busy wedding season.

Window light and Ice Cream

This isn't the best photo because of the iPhone camera lens, but take a look at how the light goes across his face. It really adds to the definition of the shot and helps make it 3 dimensional. Having the same light across the face makes it look flat and undefined. The way the light was hitting my son at this moment was what I was really trying to capture.

Battlestar The ultimate geek license plate

The ultimate geek vanity plate. Battlestar Galactica.