More with Sam

Here's a fun shot I did earlier this summer with Sam, it was shot with a Nikon D300 and a 16-85mm and I lit the image with my Elinchrom Quadra set up through a 27" softbox camera right. Quick and easy.

Lahnah

Shot this in the studio tonight with my friend Lahnah. It's very rare for me to be able to open up to f/1.4  when shooting with the Elinchrom Quadra but I had to turn the modeling lamp on to focus and the light quality was so nice I had to try shooting with it,  I had the light going through my 53" octabank. I was shooting handheld so I bumped the ISO up to 800 and it allowed a shutter speed of 1/60th of a second. Processed this in Lightroom.

A break in the clouds

There are times where I notice the light or clouds are doing something really cool but I never have anything to put in the foreground or I am running late to where I can't go out of my way to find something to make it work. This was not one of those times. I was on my way home and saw the clouds were doing something dramatic so I headed to a little lake I knew of that was a few miles off the main road and shot this very quickly then the clouds closed back up and the drama was gone. Shot with a 28mm on a D800 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.

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This was shot with a 50mm 1.4  on my D800 and processed in Adobe Lightroom.

In a corn field.

This is one of the first things I shot with my new D800. I only had a 20mm and a 50mm with me at this point and this was done with the 50mm. Shot with natural light and processed in Lightroom.

Just some random characters.

I love finding stuff like this around town. No special lighting here just a couple of quick grab shots but I thought they would be fun to share.

Last shoot with Sam for a bit.

The part that I hate about living in a college town is that it never fails when I find cool people to shoot or even just hang out with they graduate and movie away. That's exactly what is happening with my friend Sam, she is moving away tomorrow off to bigger and better things I am sure. On the bright side we did manage to sneak in one more shoot before she left. For this image I had a small softbox with an SB-800 camera right and slightly behind Sam. I shot wide open at 2.8 on my 70-200mm and with the open end of the alley in the shot my exposure edged past normal sync speed and to 1/800th of a second. I always keep the camera set so it can go into the high speed sync settings and it handle the scene beautifully in TTL. I processed it in Lightroom.