The glowing ball works really well with belly dancing

This is just a taste of a shoot that I did today. Got some amazing images with a striking local belly dancer.

more to come.

Shoot it while you can.

Last night I went out and shot some photos down at the water carnival with Brandy. SInce the carnival is only here for the 4th of July weekend we had to get it right the first time. It had been a while since I had shot something like this but this time was going to go a lot smoother now that I was shooting digital. This is one of the best shots of the night. It was done with a flash in a softbox camera right tethered to the camera via a flash cord, I used a slow shutter speed close to a half second to get the lights to blur in the background.

I saw plenty of other people with cameras down there last night but no one else had lighting gear and a beautiful woman in a slinky red dress so I think we got something no one else has shot around here this year.

Some Belly Dance Images

This is Brandy, I started working with her this spring and we've been able to come up with some cool images. These are a few from our first shoot, I was really excited with the way these worked out!

Stop and smell the flowers.

One thing I have learned over the years and it can apply to just about every aspect of life and that is if you're too focused on your goals you can forget to look around and take things in. This really applies to photography, when I am moving between shots or even getting ready to leave the location I tend to still have at least one camera ready because you never know when something might present itself. This is one of those shots, my subject here was on her way to change and as she was walking out of the trees I noticed she was framed nicely by the branches. I had her stop and strike a pose and with a 3 frame burst I had one of my favorite shots from the day.

Its been a busy spring.

Its been kind of busy for me lately, a lot of you know that I have been working on getting a magazine off the ground so I have been letting the blog fall behind. One thing though is I have learned a new technique for post processing and when I do that I tend to go back through old images to see what I can come up with. This was shot last summer.

More Dance.

When I was in Duluth I found this cool little alley that was barely a path to start with then opened up a bit wider. This was done with an SB-800 in a softbox camera left and a second one behind the dancers. I used my 12-24mm lens to show more of this cool alley.

I took a bit of a break......

But I am back with a lot of cool stuff in the works! On Friday I was in Duluth, MN shooting with a couple new friends that are dancers. The first shoot was with Juliana, she owns a dace studio and we did some ballet themed images.

This image was done with a flash in a softbox camera left and shot with a 70-200mm.
This one was a little more involved for the lighting. I had one strobe outside the window set to optical slave mode so that when it saw another flash fire it was triggered. Then there was a strait flash camera right and behind Juliana set at a 105mm zoom to provide a hard edge of light along her back and leg. Lastly there was a strobe in a softbox camera left to provide fill. Shot with a 17-55mm.
Last of all is this cool silhouette, done with natural light and shot with a 70-200mm.

More to come soon!