In The Backyard: Morning & Evening
I’ve really enjoyed using my backyard for shots for the blog. As I said previously, you often don’t have to travel very far to find some interesting photo subjects. The photos in this post were taken...
View ArticleSaturday Light – Allie & Russ’ Engagement Session
This is going to be an easy edition of Saturday Light, because 90% of the lighting used during this session was ambient. Which is something of a departure from my usual path, although a direction I...
View ArticleMasquerade Promo Pre-shoot
Tomorrow night I’m shooting some promo shots for my friends at The Vintage. You won’t see this post until Thursday, at which point the shoot will already be over. But I still wanted to put my thoughts...
View ArticleMisc inspiration from the Net
I’ve once again spent (wasted) enough time surfing the internet to have come across some items of actual value amid the rest of the crap that’s out there. This is the stuff I feel is really worth...
View ArticleSaturday Light: Conor’s headshots
Keeping things simple on another round of Saturday Light. This is Conor, the co-owner of The Vintage in downtown Scranton. But more than being a local entrepreneur and a huge supporter of the local...
View ArticleNew toys…er, tools
Image credit: Amazon.com UPS dropped off cool stuff on Friday – a new Fotodiox 312AS LED light panel and a copy of Kirk Tuck’s “LED Lighting: Professional Techniques for Digital Photographers.” Because...
View ArticleSaturday Light – Sara and Tony
Alright, time for another edition of Saturday Light! Although I should warn you now that if you’re looking for some kind of big production with lots of lights, you’ll be disappointed. In keeping with...
View ArticleSaturday Light: Pride & Prejudice Promo Shoot
This one is long overdue. Several weeks ago I shared a bit of behind-the-scenes look on what goes into preparing for a photo shoot – in this case, a very large shoot. Writing post-shoot now, I can...
View ArticleSaturday Light: Pride & Prejudice Headshots
Did headshots for the cast of The Vintage’s production of “Pride & Prejudice” over two evenings last week. Simple, clean headshots – nothing fancy here, just working to capture a good portrait of...
View ArticleSaturday Light: TLCPoV Promo
Stepping away from the natural world for a moment to look at something completely different, sort of a ninety-degree turn from the shooting I’ve been doing in the past month or two. For this edition...
View ArticleFresh from the farm(ers market)
Been working on some food photography over the past few weeks, off and on, as I’ve come home with goods from the farmer’s market. We go down every Saturday morning to pick up our CSA share – that’s...
View ArticleSaturday Light – Lady of the Lake
So it’s a rainy, gloomy Saturday morning, a balmy 48* outside, what do you do to pass the time? Well, if you’re me, you convince your friends to meet you at the county park, where you proceed to do a...
View ArticleSaturday Light – portraits with color gels
In this edition of Saturday Light, we’re going to take a look at making studio portraits that are a bit different from the norm, utilizing colored gels to...
View ArticleA few thoughts on radio slaves
I’m still using the Yongnuo RF-602 radio slaves that I purchased back in mid-2011. I was still shooting with Canon gear then, so the 602s have survived not...
View ArticleSaturday Light – Kimmy’s Senior Photos
I headed down to the Back Mountain a couple of weekends back to shoot senior photos for my now-cousin (by marriage) Kimmy. She’d already had her yearbook photos...
View ArticleSaturday Light –“Hamlet” promotional session
I joined members of The New Vintage Ensemble a couple of weekends back for a promotional shoot – this is the same group who did the fantastic production...
View ArticleSimple Clicks – Conor in color
This is an outtake from the “Hamlet” shoot [link]; Conor changed position just enough that his head no longer hid the flash serving as the backlight, so when...
View ArticleSaturday Light – lighting on the run
I’ve shot several different gigs lately, but instead of doing a series of Saturday Light posts about each, it makes more sense to lump them together because when...
View ArticleSaturday Light – Pagitica magazine shoot, Part 1
[Photographer’s note: the photoshoot this two-part series is about was done in January 2015 for Pagitica, a local magazine startup. Unfortunately, as is so common with emerging publications,...
View ArticleSaturday Light – Pagitica magazine shoot, Part 2
This is a continuation of the previous post, on my photo shoot for Pagitica magazine. This was our first shot of the day, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
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