Thursday, December 16, 2010

Night Shots and Senior Portraits

I have my last two photo shoots of the year that I’m post processing right now.  The first was a night time family portrait session I did last Thursday night for the Gilbert Family.  What an awesome family.  It was my first experience with doing night time photography with a group and all I have to say is that I need some more flashes.  I had one off camera flash, shooting through an umbrella, synched up with my on camera flash. I also had two 500W work lights behind them backlighting them and the trees.  Here is a sample.

2010 Gilbert Family-1-Edit

I’ll post more once I get through processing them.  On Saturday, I also did senior portraits for Taylor Tenney, who goes to our church.  Taylor is one of the best guys you’ll ever meet.  He took me to the Mesa Arts Center.  Talk about a lot of cool photography spots.  They are just packed in there.  I’m sure I’ll be using that place again.  There was a fair of some sort going on, but there were still plenty of great spots to shoot.  Here is a sample from Taylor’s session.

Taylor-Senior Portraits-33

I’m anxious to see what I can do with both of these in post processing since I’ve never had a night shoot or senior portraits before.  I’m curious to see what I can do with some of the training I’ve been doing on turning photographs into graphic art.  I also need to be sure I have my camera handy for all the Christmas shots over the next couple of weeks.  I don’t want to miss out like I did at Thanksgiving.

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