June 26, 2014

Demonstrating the twist flash technique in my office, I need more color!

June 25, 2014

 

After the Wednesday Night Worlds ride, I grabbed Sam and we went back to school to help a student with her evening light balance assignment. After we finished, I found this part of a necklace, a grading sign?

June 24, 2014

Big portraits by my boss…..

June 23, 2014

The boys seem happy I mowed the grass (weeds and other green stuff)  for them.

June 22, 2014

My other brother sold his 1800 plus square foot house to move to a much smaller house but ON Lake Murray. He held an estate sale and is down to what you see in the storage POD (hint hint Deb!)

Anyway while visiting my mom, I heard he was in a pinch to get stuff done before the mortgage inspection, so Sam and I redirected to help him, painted the out buildings (Sam was awesome and painted a large well pump house on her own) fixed some plumbing, a short swim and a dump run before we headed home.

June 21, 2014

Sam and Pogo swing on my mom’s porch…. my brother Rob is following his heart and moving to Arkansas in early July.

June 20, 2014

No POD? Find a cat… hiding behind the plant.

June 19, 2014

Performance quiz day. 3 stations, 3 minutes each…. set a custom white balance, direct flash and match ambient exposure and side bounce flash while under exposing ambient by 2 stops.

June 18, 2014

Next section’s lab. Same as yesterday, except I switched the umbrella for a Octodome softbox.

June 17, 2014

This week’s long lab was an introduction to remote flash and tools used (Pocket Wizards, Wein slaves, using a flash or camera to master control flashes, hard wiring, gels, softening light, etc) I started the lab with a demo. This is using a Vivitar 285 with a optical slave, a Nikon Flash in an umbrella and a Canon Flash with a homemade snoot. The Nikon and Canon were fired with Pocket Wizards…. I just wanted to show in 5 minutes and using “pieces” a nice portrait is possible!