Over The Rainbow

It’s good to finally be back on the blog after many many months! I’m proud to say that we have also added a new addition to our family, so needless to say we have been swamped.

This past summer, my sister & niece came to stay with us for a couple weeks. It was beautiful summer weather, which gave us the opportunity to spend a lot of time outdoors.
Here are some of my favorites…

Cheers!

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Before firing up the grill one evening, I decided to experiment and take a few photos. This was taken in our backyard with trees, shrubbery, and all
(gotta love the inverse square law here). Face painting was courtesy of our day trip to the local zoo. I think the artwork added some nice lines here.

Tech Specs:
Top 3 photos were all natural lighting.

The bottom was shot with off camera lighting:

Canon 5D
85mm f1.8
ISO 100
1/125 @ 7.1

Main Light – 580EXII into shoot-thru-umbrella
Hair/Rim Light – Nikon SB26 with 1/4 or 1/2 cut CTO gel
Pocketwizards

Ruby At Sundown

After weeks of rain & cold, we had a nice 4 day stretch of sun here in Seattle.

I had the great pleasure of photographing Ruby this past weekend, just as the sun was setting.
She was a true sport, who trudged through a couple hundred yards of muddy ground, in her new boots, to take these photos.
Thanks Ruby!

What better way to end the day then to have the sun on your face, a great model to photograph, the shutter under your finger, and a nice Chinese meal to top things off!

Strobist Info:

Canon 5D, 85mm f1.8, 1/30th @ f5

Key: Canon 580EXII @ 1/4, through shoot-thru-umbrella

Rim: Nikon SB26 @ 1/4 with full CTO