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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. The shoot 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 Kacey Pole [...]

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 [...]

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 tend [...]

Strobist Sports Portraits – Setup #2

Tom — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:00:50 +0000

The second setup for the Strobist Sports Portrait shoot was a one light setup outside. I used the same White Lightning 1600 with the 7″ 20 degree grid outside in the beautiful clear day. It was bright out there! The plan for this shot was to “over power the sun”. That big ass White Lightning [...]

Strobist Sports Portraits – Setup #1

Tom — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:24:30 +0000

Last weekend Jason Lykins and Shad Ramsey of Red Door Photography just outside of Cincinnati hosted a Strobist Meet-up at their large studio. If you’re in the Cincinnati area, you should check them out. The do wonderful work and they support the photography community with regular classes for photographers and models. For this meet-up, I [...]

Corporate Head Shots

Tom — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:25:21 +0000

I recently created head shots for a local office of a Fortune 100 company for use in their literature, organization charts and such. My job was to shoot a group people in management throughout the group. The shots were not glamorous, just straight forward business head shots. I needed to shoot a torso up [...]

Black and White Pin Up Shots

Tom — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:17 +0000

Here are a few B/W pics from the pin-up shoot. Using black and white pictures seem important to me when shooting this style picture. The last one isn’t really 100% black and white but it has an old photos style look that I enjoy. The processing in the shot below was accomplished using a [...]

Fantasy Moon Pin Up

Tom — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:15:37 +0000

One of the goals that I had during the Pin Up shoot last weekend was to create a “Fantasy Moon Pin Up” image and I was able to complete that goal. Below is the final result. I’m pretty happy with the final image. I experimented with the final processing in different colors and tones but [...]

1940’s Style Pin Up Shoot

Tom — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:49:53 +0000

Sorry that I’ve not been active posting for some time. I’ve got a huge project in the works and it’s been taking almost every free moment. I hope to make it public in the next month or so. So stay tuned, it’s gonna be good! That said, sometimes you’ve just got to take time and [...]