Light and Pixels

Published in “Bloomberg Markets” Magazine

Tom — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:57:59 +0000

I’m a bit late in telling you all about being published in Bloomberg Markets magazine. My image of the Dayton Dragons single A Professional Baseball team was selected to support an article in Bloomberg Markets magazine. You can see the image below. Thanks to all those who helped me to get published in particular, Don [...]

Old Steam Engine Tech

Tom — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:08:54 +0000

This pressure gauge was found while cleaning out Mom’s garage. Her dad was a big fan of steam engines and this was likely a favorite of grandpa’s. The set up was a SB600 with red gel pointed at a white board behind the gauge. A SB800 with yellow gel pointed at a reflector in front [...]

Product Photography

Tom — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:14:43 +0000

I’ve been doing some product photography and needed to better understand macro and focus stacking techniques. The resulting photos are taken using a D300 and a 28-75 Tamron 2.8 Macro lens mounted on a tripod. The lighting setup is simple. One SB800 shot over the top of the pearls and bounced off of a white [...]

Mandy’s Senior Portrait

Tom — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:19:57 +0000

Mandy is a senior at Springboro High School in Ohio. She is fun and full of life. Mandy is also an excellent student and athlete she plans to play soccer in college. Our shoot was great fun. Both of Mandy parents came along for the shoot. Mandy’s dad was especially good at spotting a great [...]

Lighting a Wine Bottle

Tom — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:19:11 +0000

I’ve been doing some product photography and though I’d share my setup for a wine bottle shot. This should be a good practice run for a job I recently quoted. This is the final photo. It would be used in an online website catalog. The job I quoted isn’t wine but it’s similar in nature [...]

Alysse’s Photo Shoot

Tom — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:18:46 +0000

Please welcome Alysse to the LightandPixels.com photographic family. Alysse is a beautiful young model that is getting started in spectacular fashion. Alysse is headed to college at my old Alma-mater, Hocking Technical College to study wildlife management. I agree it’s a good idea to know how to manage your life when it gets wild and HTC has the potential for [...]

Photoshoot with Brandi

Tom — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:21:17 +0000

A friend and fellow photographer and I had the opportunity to shoot a local young and rising model Brandi (brandidandee@gmail.com). The shoot was held at a local state park. I brought along a Alien Bee AB800 strobe/monolight, a beauty dish, a Vagabond power supply and a Kacey Pole Adaptor to hold it all together. The [...]

Edgy Sports Portrait with HDR

Tom — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:17:16 +0000

One of my favorite photographers work to follow is Joel Grimes. Joels is pretty famous for his “three point lighting” setup of models, athletes, musicians, or other characters mixed with a HDR background. I really enjoy the look of Joels three point lighting work because it is different than most and because for me, it [...]

Allison

Tom — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:34:56 +0000

I had the pleasure of photographing Allison for her senior portraits. She is a really sweet young lady with a wonderful future ahead of her. She had lots of fun doing her senior photo shoot. She was quick to “strike a pose” and was just beautiful in her yellow senior high prom dress. All the [...]

RadioPopper RPCube Announced – Canon DIY Cube Working

Tom — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:51:16 +0000

The email from Radiopopper finally came out tonight. The guys at Leap Devices have made the following announcement: “The RadioPopper RPCube will be available for purchase Monday, May 3, 2010 at 1pm PST for $29.95.” I’ve said it before – I really like what the RadioPopper guys have done with their radio triggers but they [...]