Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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.


Quickbooks, my enemy

Monday, February 8, 2010

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.

Swimming and Diving

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Diving Counties Part 2


Swimming and Diving

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Diving Counties Part 1


Swimming and Diving

Friday, February 5, 2010

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.


Denis Reggie Lesson

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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.


Ice cream in the winter

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Battlestar The ultimate geek license plate

The ultimate geek vanity plate. Battlestar Galactica.