just a snap shot

I took my wife to breakfast at Wiley's Pub yesterday and we sat outside on the porch. I loved the way the sun lit up her hair and since I always have a camera with me I shot this.

I turned the flash down one step to avoid washing the whole thing out and left the camera in Program mode to take care of the rest.

setting up an in situ studio

I see I haven't posted in a couple of weeks so there's going to be two today. I've been feeling under the weather and haven't felt like doing much of anything lately anyway. My wife says it's because I'm retiring; maybe she's right.

My buddy Chriss has been in an exercise challenge for the past couple of months and needed photo's of her and her partner as part of the "before and after" shots. She's in the National Guard and has drill this weekend so she was going to miss the regular photo shoot at her gym and asked me to help her out.

I don't have a studio (and really don't like studio shoots anyway) so we found a conference room to use.

We taped a white sheet to the wall and laid another one on the floor to use as a back drop. I had two speed lights set up with an easel to use as a reflector. I ended up adding another light in place of the easel and laying a silver reflector on the floor in front of them propped up on my camera bag.

Here's a shot of me testing the light.

and here are a couple of photo's of Chriss and Garry doing their poses for the contest they were in.

Good luck guys!