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Here is what a photo of Derek would have looked like in the late 1800’s, early 1900’s:

What can I say, I’ve gone a little filter crazy tonight.

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Trying out another photography technique: using a small aperture size (f/22), a fast shutter speed (1/1000 of a second) and a flash (set to high speed sync):

Using this technique, you can essentially turn the surrounding area completely black - the flash “freezing” the foreground. This shot was taking in full daylight, and yet it looks […]

Sophia was pretty cooperative tonight, with me taking her pictures.

I was playing around with “gel`ing” my flash. This particular image was created using a 1/2 plus green gel (rosco) over my external flash. You would typically use a gel like this to correct for fluorescent lighting - to match daylight to fluorescent.

Here she is with […]

We’ve been taking Sophia to gymnastics the past month or so, and while they don’t do much (mainly focusing on taking turns and being considerate), she really does love it.

Sorry for the crummy picture, they don’t exactly allow large DSLR cameras on the gym floor.

Trying out some new lighting techniques:

Flash with umbrella camera right. Additional flash directly behind her, at an 1/8 power.

You wouldn’t believe how hard is was to get her to let me take her picture today. My favorite girl model is growing up and doesn’t want me to take her picture quite as often.

I […]

Look who sit still for 640th of a second (that was my shutter speed on this image):

We’re still working on getting a good fall portrait of Derek. As a one year old, he is far less cooperative than Sophia is, not that she is easy as pie to work with.

If you look really closely, you can actually see a reflection of me in her eyes.

Mommy is holding the blanket behind them. She is such a good assistant.