Harbor West

I'M SUPER BUMMED I MISSED THE AWESOME SUNSET LAST NIGHT!!! So many great photos taken by phones of the amazing Seattle sunset! I was just a little too late! I did manage to get my ass down to alki with enough time to take this shot. Taken with a single exposure with detail and color brought out with some pixel massaging in lightroom and photoshop. www.nakean.com http://flic.kr/p/ojeYX7

Harbor West

Going back I found another image I really like mostly because of the foreground and warmer tones. This makes me only want to shoot at this time of day/night. I bet my portraits would be better! www.nakean.com http://flic.kr/p/ojeZ2L

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

Frenchie

This little girl was full of so much energy! I surprised I was able to capture this photo of her! According to mom this is her, "asking mom if everything is ok" face. Strobist info: Lit with two gridded stripboxes either side softlighterII boomed camera right with Einstein 640 EXD400 through Large PLM just behind the camera silver reflector camera left. http://flic.kr/p/nExb3W

Superman

A great session with Norris Frederick a couple days ago in the studio! He's an Olympic Athlete bound for greatness. With ridiculous airtime in the long jump and High Jump it's easy to confuse him with superman! Lit with gridded x800. camera right and einstein through gridded beauty dish boomed overhead set to almost no power. http://flic.kr/p/nVD6ns

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

JaybrieBrown-445-Edit

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

JaybrieBrown-371-Edit

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

JaybrieBrown-358-Edit

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

Keith-1900-Edit

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Keith-1831-Edit

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Keith-1827-Edit

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Beautiful Pup

This little girl is just to adorable! I lit her with two stripboxes in nice and close as well as a gridded beauty dish above and Large PLM behind me for fill light. Background splashed with a light just behind the pup. http://flic.kr/p/mCJGnD

Mr. Personality

I absolutely love this shot of Keith! It's screams, "hay! Here I am." Quite a bit of work be done in this photograph as these glasses were THICK! They reflected everything right back at the camera. Originally the fill light reflections were quite large blocking parts of the eyes. They are no more :) My second issue was the Beauty dish hung in the frame just over his head. It's gone now! The pattern and flare are from the strip lights on either side and that's something I didn't want to remove, as it give this image it's icing on the cake IMHO. Let me know what you think! The usual recipe with boomed beauty dish above softbox behind for fill. Two rim lights through gridded softboxes(grid give pattern on the background right). Shot in my West Seattle Garage Studio. http://flic.kr/p/mfbUC6

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

Golden Rims

One of my favorite shots from today's session! Diggin the gold rims(lights). Created with two strip boxes on either side gridded and gelled with full cto gels. Beauty dish boomed overhead and softbox behind through large Octa for fill. 1/2 cto gelled light behind for background light. — with Keith Naves at Nakean Photography. http://flic.kr/p/mc8xjX