Time with the family

This is day one/365 " pieces of me" series

Punks Not Dead

80s Birthday Party Photobooth

My second attempt at a photobooth at a friends party. Had a lot of fun with it. Used a 35mm f 1.8 prime and that worked out much better than the zoom I used last time. Picked up some fabric at Joanne's but need to sew the second panel on to widen it just a bit. Def needed the second light but did not use it because this was just a fun quick shoot. Learned even more. The camera does tend to over heat quickly when rapid firing for a while. Need to look more into that. The remote worked better this time but that was the first thing to go once it overheated slightly. But alas here are some of the pictures of all the crazy people I knew when I was underage. Happy Birthday Robbie! Can't believe your 41! And I can't believe we all fit in our clothes from the 80's.

For the love of Prime

I have this wonderful little lens. It is an 85mm f/1.4 prime lens. It was a gift. There is a very special story behind this gift that is very personal to the man who gave it to me so I will not elaborate as to why I recieved such an amazing gift but I am doing my best to give justice to the reason for it.

Those who know me well know I am pretty blind without my glasses. This lens is manual focus. This is the ONLY reason I have not used it much since I first received it. I decided to use it on the Engagement shoot I did last month and rediscovered why this is "THE" portrait lens. period. I decided to shoot only with it at the last APG model shoot. Here are the magical headshots taken with that lens from the other night.

Beach Portraits

I have always seen those family beach pictures and wanted to try some of my own. I used my Nikon D300s mounted on a tripod, in camera flash set to fill. Nikon SB800 stobe on light stand to left of subjects fired from the in-camera commander mode with sun setting to right of subjects. ISO 200

These were taken with the Lensbaby composer