Amber joins the list of valued Solar Flare Photography clients with our session on the last day of July. She was searching for some shots to update her Social Media profiles. We shot a bit over 50 and chopped back to 10. It was a lot of fun and I really appreciate Amber letting me take them.
So I had on my calendar that there was going to be a full moon early this week… I took some pictures of a sunset the night of in preparation. I’m standing outside and I see the moon peeking out from behind some clouds so I got a couple of pictures, that was the last I saw of the moon that night as the rain kicked in and the sky was completely covered. The next night was more of the same. Very disappointing.
This morning I was letting the dogs out and I saw the moon hanging there… I went and grabbed my camera and caught a “mostly” full moon. heh
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We recently took a trip to St. Louis, Missouri to visit my wife’s family. On one of the days we spent some time at the Transportation Museum Association… I got to spend some time with professional photographer, Tom Rollins. We talked about techniques and he was kind of enough to loan me a few of his lenses. It was a great time. Here are my favorite shots from the trip.
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Our screened in porch tends to be a stop-over for quite the variety of insects.. the other day we had our first dragonfly visitor. Before we did the usual catch and release, I wanted to snap a couple of pictures so the boys could check out the bugs a bit closer up later. There’s a contest running on one of my favorite photography forums that I think it will qualify for too, so I’m pretty darn pleased with the whole series.
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A recent portrait client gave me the ok to share their gallery for potential customers to look at some of the work I have done. This was a great session we did in early May at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The little boy’s 3rd birthday was coming up and they liked my “6″ pictures I did with Carson, so we spent some time at the number sculptures and from there wandered around the IMA grounds for a while. I’m so pleased to be able to show these off, thanks again to the family for allowing me!
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My newest client, Straight & Narrow, Inc., and I just finalized their gallery. They have been kind enough to allow me to share it with everyone to view. The client was looking for some shots that showed diversity in a young, hip way in an urban setting. We met up around 6pm on Tuesday of last week at the Stutz Business Center building in Downtown Indianapolis. It had been raining for most of the afternoon but let up about an hour before we met up. It was a great time and we got a lot of pictures in that came out really well.
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Ok, so I got started tinkering with the last stuff and I couldn’t help looking at my new Photoshop Auto Tilt-shift Action. Whee! I didn’t have much quality material for tilt-shifting, but now that I know what kind of pictures work best I think I’ll keep my eye out for opportunities to take them. I put the original photo in with these as well so you can really see the difference.
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I’ve been wanting to get out and some more experimenting… specifically with HDR (High Dynamic Range) and Panoramas. My photo appointment got rescheduled so I took that opportunity to go take some photos next to where my old house used to be. There was a real lack of clouds in the sky so the HDR photos didn’t come out as dramatic as I wanted them too, but it was fun doing the process.
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Brought the camera into campus today to take along to our lunch at The Elbow Room, which was delicious. Being right in the heart of downtown it presented an opportunity to get some nice building shots. Later when I got home we headed to the park and I got some good ones there as well.
I’m active on a few Photography forums and I’ve started getting in on some of their Assignments… One I just finished was called “Jump!” The sky was very cool looking today, so I was trying to coax Carson into jumping over me so I could capture him against the deep blue background. It wasn’t until his mom stepped in as his jumping assistant did his confidence allow him to make the leap. I also got some shots of the boys riding around in the H3, the tulips in the front yard that suddenly added some red to their petals, and the good dogs.
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