Ok since Sabrina, Jeff, and Mark have all posted portraits this week I figured I should jump on the bandwagon and get one online myself. Visit Sabrina and take a look through the last few posts for a great series of people photos that she made during her recent visit to Africa. Jeff got to attend a workshop with Kirk Tuck that I would have loved to go to and came back with some great studio portraits. Mark is adding to his 100 Strangers project both here and abroad with some great street portraits.
Great stuff from all three of my friends and a little unfair as now I want to travel, don’t really care where to but I want to go. The above image was an outdoor shot with a 42″ diffuser held between the sun and Katie, I can’t remember for sure but I may have had an SB 28 cam right for a touch of fill. Few more of the outdoor shoot of Katie over on the flickr site.
PT Cyclery has been a mainstay of business in Port Townsend since the 80′s and a great bunch of real helpful folks even for those of us who don’t know a lot about something with no motor. They were nice enough to let me shoot a few images for a project we have in the works. There are a few more of the session on my flickr site, the project I’ll add to the blog when it is done.
The camera that is with you is the right one. iPhone photo while waiting to go drag out the big guns for a shoot at the bicycle shop. This is my favorite photo from the whole day and all I had with me at the time was my phone.
Sara who runs the Center Valley Animal Rescue stopped by and needed a quick portrait (ya got 20 min) for her brothers wedding website that didn’t have animals or a motorcycle in it. Up went a black sheet and out came the lights. Beautiful young lady who laughs a lot and puts up with a few of us that tease her unmercifully. She is truly dedicated to saving animals of all kinds and the ranch is there solely to her dedication and hard work. Check out the info on her site at http://centervalleyanimalrescue.org/ . Special lady and doing a special job. Next time we do this I want time to do it the way she deserves, but these do show some of who she is inside.
Set this up and shot about 60 frames in about 20 min on a Sat. they stopped by on the way home from Costco. Simple set-up and shoot. The 85mm is perfect for the space I had and I like the way it works for this kind of portrait. Click the photos to link to flickr where I added the lighting info.
(Sara if you read the first paragraph I will deny writing it)
Couple of my favorite images from a shoot last Friday with Katie. We tried out a couple of new ideas and they managed to kick off a whole new set of inspiration for an upcoming shoot.
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