Agnew Family

Gorgeous Agnew family at Lincoln Park a few weeks back! Are you kidding me with these little girls! They were never short on smiles, and had me crackin up as well! Good family photos are all about laughter, appreciating each other and enjoying yourself! http://flic.kr/p/nCs6RS

Agnew Family

Gorgeous Agnew family at Lincoln Park a few weeks back! Are you kidding me with these little girls! They were never short on smiles, and had me crackin up as well! Good family photos are all about laughter, appreciating each other and enjoying yourself! http://flic.kr/p/nUPbvN

Agnew Family

Gorgeous Agnew family at Lincoln Park a few weeks back! Are you kidding me with these little girls! They were never short on smiles, and had me crackin up as well! Good family photos are all about laughter, appreciating each other and enjoying yourself! http://flic.kr/p/nUWt2T

Agnew Family

Gorgeous Agnew family at Lincoln Park a few weeks back! Are you kidding me with these little girls! They were never short on smiles, and had me crackin up as well! Good family photos are all about laughter, appreciating each other and enjoying yourself! Lit with single Einstein 640 with 64" silver PLM with deffuser panel camera right. Sun provided hair light. http://flic.kr/p/nUDrrD

Agnew Family

Gorgeous Agnew family at Lincoln Park a few weeks back! Are you kidding me with these little girls! They were never short on smiles, and had me crackin up as well! Good family photos are all about laughter, appreciating each other and enjoying yourself! http://flic.kr/p/nURuGW

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

Starburst

Quite possibly my next composite background! We'll just have to wait and see if it makes sense for the subject. This shot would have been impossible were it not for HDR (High Dynamic Range). Over the years I have learned to tone down post process of these images in favor of more realistic landscapes. This was created with three seperate imagas several stops apart. Here's a link to my process of HDR using Lightroom and Photomatix. www.nakeanworkshops.com/blog/new-love-for-hdr/ http://flic.kr/p/iNXsLB

Family Holiday Photo

-I love taking family photos, but I love it even more when i get to be in them! You can try these with a tripod and a timer but I would recommend getting yourself a wireless remote before attempting with children, or with this many people for that matter! We took countless photos and just like at work, there's almost always one or more people not looking straight ahead. Too often I don't offer to take my families photo, thinking it's a hassle and a bother for them all. More often than not it's exactly what they all hoped for! Thanks for wonderful Holiday breakfast, fun opening presents, and a wonderful outing at the park! I hope we can do it again soon! Lit with a single Large Octabox with Einstein 640 directly over the camera. I think I'm in love with 50mm 1.2 L !!! It goes back to Glazer's rentals tomorrow.... :( http://flic.kr/p/iBrCZR

True Arrow

This is one serious Bow with an equally serious arrow. The tip of this particular arrow is essentially 4 razor blades that are serrated on the back end! You do not want to be on the business end of one of these bad boys! I still don't think I can comprehend the amount sheer force behind an arrow on a bow of this kind. This particular composite took me quite sometime before it felt right. There are countless adjustment layers dealing with color, light and sharpness to name a few. If I had tried to create this 3 months ago, I would have posted it on day one even though it didn't quite feel complete. I couldn't bear to do that to this particular image. I slept on it at least a couple nights and made incremental changes as ideas came to me. Sometimes it's hard for me to give a project, I'm so excited about, some breathing room and time. It's like putting together an intricate puzzle. No one completes those in one sitting, and when your run into a brick wall the best thing you can do is walk away and come back later! Matt brought his bow into the studio here in West Seattle so as not to scare the bajesus out of passers by in public. The background was taken at Lincoln Park near the bluff overlooking Puget Sound. I posted a similar image on my facebook page with the fence located on the opposite side of the frame. Matt was lit with a large octa right behind me and the rims were b800's through medium sized stripboxes. http://flic.kr/p/ikskvM

Julie

An all natural light shot at Lincoln Park with the Trusty 85mm 1.2. I sht at f2 to get a little more DOF here and used a reflector just below and to the right to bring a little more of that gorgeous light in. We worked hard for this one with the last direction being a little dip in that front shoulder. Photography is a game of inches folks! http://flic.kr/p/fw3q3k

Julie

A photo I took with Irish Folk singer at Lincoln Park in search for an album cover. One of my favorites by far! Lit with large PLM camera right. http://flic.kr/p/frafD1