I rarely encourage models to sleep through photo shoots, but it’s perfectly acceptable for a newborn photo session.
This weekend, I was honored to capture some photographs of Jake & Nicole’s now 3 week old baby boy. We’ve come full-circle. A few weeks ago we were strolling through Fort Mill, SC shooting their maternity portraits. They’re proud parents with a handsome boy, and even though he won’t remember any of it he did great!
I shot these photos with my D300, 60mm/f2.8 and 2 SB-28dx flashes at the family’s home. One flash was on the camera. The other I positioned in random spots around the room, triggering it with my Pocket Wizard remotes. I’ve come to love the Nikkor 60mm Micro lens for portraits. The lens’ sharpness is perfect, and the macro focusing capability allows for tight, intimate people pictures. See a few more at Facebook.
I’m frequently amazed by other photographers who are able to make a beautiful image out of a scene most of us wouldn’t look at twice. The images that most inspire me are those that might never have been taken. The little details we pass by every day, and sometimes don’t notice. Maybe they’re even inconvenient things, but an artist will take it and compose a thing of beauty.
I’ve always thought that one of my short-comings as an ART photographer was that I have a hard time capturing abstract images that turn an unremarkable scene into a striking photograph. My self assignment lately has been to slow down, and notice the beauty that appears within the mundane.
This image was taken from inside my car one foggy morning. It’s condensation that formed overnight on the windshield. In my haste to get to work on time I almost didn’t even shoot this.
I may have found my new favorite sport to shoot… The image possibilities in kayak polo are sweet! You get intense competition, faces, player interactions and the dynamic visuals of a water sport.
This was my first time shooting kayak polo, but I managed to come away with a few good shots. The action is fast, but contained in a relatively small pitch. So it was simple shooting with single Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8. This club plays on Lake Wylie, and I was able to shoot from the deck that runs along one side of the playing area. Morning light was somewhat diffused, but at ISO 400 I was still capturing shots at around 1/500th to 1/1200th exposures with the f-stop between 4 and 5.6. Check out more of the keepers at my flickr page: http://flickr.com/photos/agoailam.
Baby Trace (and his mom and dad) let me shoot his first time in a swing. He loved it. I love this shot. It’s got the essentials, but I love it for what it doesn’t have almost as much. It doesn’t have any motion blur… doesn’t have any cheesy lens effects… doesn’t have a parent pushing him (not that his parents aren’t cool). We’ve all seen those photos. This is just a kid super-stoked in a swing. We’ve all felt it. We all like feelin’ it. And, Trace, we’re with ya in this one buddy!
We had great weather for a shoot last weekend in Virginia. The clouds were amazing, and added so much good depth to the landscape I tried to work them into a bunch of the shots. Even though it was turning summer, there were a few blooms left for shooting around as well. These shots pretty much came out of the camera like this. I wanted to keep this shoot clean and simple. Sky Meadow is a great place to shoot! I’ll post some more from this venue some time.
I liked this shot as an image of a teen in transition, walking away solo, personality and skill in hand, headed toward something unknown. Cool stuff for a senior session. Although it’s not likely to be a huge print seller, it’s a cool image.
This photo was shot in Fort Mill, SC behind a Chick-Fil-A restaurant actually. I used the Nikon D1x (of course), a 20mm/f2.8 and SB28dx. I ran a Cross Processing action on it in Photoshop CS3. I wanted to give it a little atmosphere.
We had the pleasure/pain of working around gray skies and intermittent rain, but ended up with some great captures for the day.
