Simple Yet Effective

Here's a closeup of Norris Frederick from our first shoot. If you know me then you know I'm obsessed with lighting in general. I love complicated multiple light setups to bring attentention to a specific object or place in the frame. However, lately, I've found comfort and beauty in single light setups. They're much more organic and feel so real. I thought this was fitting for a man like Norris, because he is the real deal! Lit with a single gridded beauty dish through Einstein 640 boomed overhead. No reflector no rim. http://flic.kr/p/nPkNAp

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Lit with Beauty Dish boomed overhead and two gridded rims on either side. Plm served as fill behind camera and silver reflector on b800 behind the subject onto the background http://flic.kr/p/mZAAWh

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Lit with beauty dish boomed out of frame camera right. Gridded strip for rim camera left and gridded strip much more in front camera right with PLM serving as fill behind camera. http://flic.kr/p/mZyNSB

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Lit with beauty dish boomed out of frame camera right. Gridded strip for rim camera left and gridded strip much more in front camera right with PLM serving as fill behind camera. http://flic.kr/p/mZAB6L

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Larger than life

This is the one from the series that I edited. This kid's got it all! Just too much to photograph! And he actually likes it! This particular image was lit by a large octa camera right and two strip lights to light the background. Doing double duty with fill and the floor is a large plm behind me. http://flic.kr/p/mKTBcM

Standing Tall

Lit with Beauty dish overhead No fill this time around. gridded stripboxes for rim light on either side. Background is an overlay and actually placed on top of the image instead of behind. This helps maintain the shadows in the original image. http://flic.kr/p/mdxSQs

Smiling and Swinging

Love this kid! Brings a smile to my face every day! This is a special smile (When mom surprised us at Lincoln Park. All natural light. http://flic.kr/p/m2YruK

Green Giggles

Having some fun with some editing techniques for that cartoon like affect. I started with Joel Grimes and his blur effect but never could quite get the look I wanted. I think it helps that most of his images are quite a bit darker. This technique of noise reduction and high pass filter to bring back a little detail is exactly what I'm looking for. I love trying on others Photoshop techniques to see if they fit my workflow. I like some bits and pieces and make them my own for my unique look in images. It's always evolving and changing. Adding a bit of salt here and bit of pepper there. This shot is all natural light. http://flic.kr/p/iRp8wR

Little Clark Kent

-My Little Clark Kent who just forgot to take of his cape! Had so much fun running around with Grandpa listening to the theme song of Superman blaring through the living room speakers! Man this kid can lift your spirits! I couldn't help but sprint to the garage studio for my stripbox and Einstein light! One of many great captures with Grampa in the kitchen! Happy Holidays to all! lit with a single Einstein through gridded stribox camera right. http://flic.kr/p/iyqDv8

Shing blues

Here's a photo of my best friend I've known since we were 6 and 7 years old! One might think I've taken a ton of photos of him but they would be completely wrong. Ultimately, taking photos of him when he wasn't cleaned up and ready to be photographed primed him to come back and show his more put together persona. There were a ton of images we both liked from this shoot. One of the images I posted recently was without the jacket and lit from the front by only two lights. In this image, however, There are 4 lights illuminating Corey from both sides, top, and bottom. All lights were gridded except for the bottom fill light allowing me to add color to the black paper in the background. http://flic.kr/p/hzo2GT

Ooh baby

Man how this kid grows!! Mom got him dressed this morning and he looked so much older to me for some reason. I had to take a photo in order to try and freeze his ever increasing aging! Stop growing little man!!! He brings a smile to my face every time I see him. This was lit with a large octabox boomed over the camera with two strip lights to light the background. I almost never use my white background but I think it's time to bring it back. http://flic.kr/p/ggKQMr