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Jewellianna

Dancers are some of my favorite photographic subjects. Having attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas, I gained an appreciation for dancers early in life. You could always tell the dancers in school by the way they carried themselves when they walked into a room.

I recently had the privilege of photographing Jewellianna. She needed some images for an upcoming audition, so I set up an impromptu studio space in my family room using a large roll of grey seamless paper.

I used a 2400 Watt/second Speedotron pack and two heads. I set one up in a 5' octobank softbox with a grid camera left to serve as the main light. On the other head I used a small 7" reflector and a narrow grid placed camera right, behind the subject, to serve as an edge light (notice the side of her head and neck). I also used a Nikon SB-600 speedlight, camera right, near the camera to serve as fill. Both the Nikon Speedlight and the Speedotron pack were triggered wirelessly via PocketWizards.

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Uploaded on Jan 28, 2012

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Pink in Blue

2011 was a great year of travel for me. Here is an image from the National Portrait Gallery in London. There were lots of "frame-within-a-frame" image opportunities here. More images from the National Portrait Gallery can be seen on my blog.

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Uploaded on Jan 1, 2012

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Maria

My first photo shoot with the lovely and very tall Maria was practically a disaster. Not because of her, but rather me. Between gear I couldn't find, gear that had failed and gear that I just plain forgot to bring, I had no suitable light modifiers available to me on this location shoot. I had just a bare flash and ambient light to play with, not the optimal way to shoot a model. I made the best of it and came up with these images (more on my blog)--enjoy!. I'm planning my next shoot with Maria to be in studio.
Strobist info: Off-camera strobe (Nikon SB-600), camera left, with a ¼ CTO gel (for warming) triggered via PocketWizards (mini TT1 and Flex TT5).

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Uploaded on Dec 19, 2011 | Map

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Maverick Road Sky

Another view of the sunset by Maverick Road near one of the entrances to Big Bend National Park. This is the same location as the my previous post. It’s amazing how dramatically the lighting can change in just 8 minutes.

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Uploaded on Dec 5, 2011 | Map

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