070909 Katie's Vintage Voyage (B is B)

This Thursday I got to Photograph Katie, who had been waiting 3 years to get her portraits taken by my wife and I.

Katie is just AWESOME!

Her sense of style and personality are amazing!

Check out how we got these shots here!

She's just AWESOME!

Thank you Katie! You're the best!

070409 Dear Rain, Does it have to be EVERY 4th?

Every year I have been in Cincinnati since 2006 it has rained on the 4th of July. The only year it wasn't raining DURING the fireworks was last year. This year was no exception. :( This is the only photo I made on July 4th 2009. It was not raining at 11:30pm.

Until next 4th, check out these photos from last year.

070309 Face Off

I decided to give something new a try this week and erase people's faces.

As freakish as this may seem it does have a practical application. The photo editing software out there now and now has some amazing capabilities. Although erasing the majority of the features on a person's face may not be the intended use, you still have to admit that the ability to remove that large of an object or area is pretty beneficial.

Think about it this way. If I can take a person's face off, I can surely correct any minor and even some major flaws for my clients. Post Production is truly 50% of photography these days. It allows great photographers to offer even more to our clients than any time in the past.

070209 INCREDI-Ball!

Anyone who talks to me on a regular basis knows that the little boys next door like to play sports in their back yard. I've found all sorts of things in my yard over the past two years. Balls, toys, hair gel, Frisbees, underpants, a tricycle... the list goes on and on... Thursday when I came home i found not one, but this many balls in my back yard...

Hailea, the dog, is perfectly fine with this.

070309 Birds

This is a Mockingbird that actually screams at all the smokers that stand outside the office. You can see it screaming here. Go bird, Go!

Just some birds that have nested near my office, but a photographer is a photographer and... here we are.

070309 Jaylee and the Aperture Trick

This photo was taken at Christmas 2007 with the ol' David Ziser Aperture trick. I took his method a bit farther by actually taping the heart shaped hole to a UV filter that screwed onto my 50mm lens. Here's a link to the how to of the trick.

It's a pretty easy to pull off and it has a fantastic effect for your clients.

062809 Scouting Cox Arboretum! (B is B)

My beautiful wife, Terri, and I went to Cox Arboretum in Dayton yesterday to scout locations for a photo shoot we have coming up there soon. The Arboretum is a small-ish well sculpted park (Check out the panorama in the next post!). It's really nice and a fantastic place to photograph!

This was a funny shot in between when a group of people led by a strong willed bride-to-be were blah, blah, blah-ing, planning the service, and repeatedly walking into the only photograph I had planned to take. Not-to-mention the hordes of tours.

A little patience paid off.

This was the shot.
(This shot was constructed with the
two point lighting technique I detailed on Digital Pro Talk [link])

I sure love my wife.