Day with the Sis-Portrait

Oh Lordy, I visited my sister since she is on Spring Break and we ha the most adventrous and wonderful day! We met in Maple Grove so we could go to PF Changs for lunch <----Which was AMAZING (Those lettuce wraps, mmmmm)

All Natural Light-Me on left Sister on the right (Jessica)

While we were there we just kept it cool and walked around the outside mall, since she had never been there before. We were on a mission to find her some flip flops and mom a new purse. However, we had gotten sidetracked twice...

Once to try on silly urban one outfit/jumpsuit clothes and make fun of eachother and another to try and find me a new bra at Victoria Secret. Come to find out my safe all black bra's are not sexy and she tried to show me what style I should be getting, so I don't dress so Mom-ish. I felt like I ahouls have been on the show "What Not To Wear" but for undergarments lol. Some things she had me try I felt like a hootchie mamma Story Goes-----> I left empty handed haha

Lights Out Dancing-Promos

 

!!!LIGHTS OUT DANCING!!!

It took a whole crap ton of time and collaboration between the band and myself to come up with a creative concept and the time paid off. We started off with roughly 6 ideas and kept mixing and matching them all until we came up with this. Mike and I then spent a day out checking out and looking for locations to photograph and oddly enough we ended up doing this shoot right in the front yard of Scott's parents house.

I used 3 lights.

1- Speed-light to the far left
1-Alien B 800 to far right
1-Alien B 1600 with white reflective umbrella-to camera rear and from above at a 15 degree angle to my subjects left.

We began this shoot a little earlier in the day so that by the time we were finishing the individual images it wouldn't be a black sky. So in order to make the skies almost look like it was the same time of day I did some tweaking in photo-shop so they would have consistency.

Lights Out Dancing is a Powerpop/Pop rock group out of the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. This month they just released a new album called "Ever The Optimist". Currently they are touring around the east coast to help promote the amazing new album. If you have a second please check it out at www.myspace.com/lightsoutdancing

Army Soldier Portrait

Talk about fun and adventures.....this photo shoot was one of those.

During this shoot I had my model, one assistant, two 580 EX II speedlights and a large reflector. However, during the photo shoot one of my female hot shoes connecting my speedlight to the transceiver decided to crash and my flash decided it didn't want to work on slave

SO.....

BELIEVE IT or NOT

This image was taken with ONE speedlight and my assistant right above me reflecting the light down onto her. This took many shots and was the only way we could get enough light on her, this late in the evening, with making it look like multiple light sources. It was exciting and an adventure in the short time period I was given to work with this model.

It, also, reminded me how to be creative and useful and how to adapt and overcome and still produce a good image!