New York City: 1993-1994
The days of film. Slide film to be exact. These images were made over 15 years ago when only a select few could afford any of the digital cameras that were available. I love New York City. My wife and I went there a lot when we were dating and after we were married. It’s [...]
Westcott 28″ Softbox
I think everybody’s first light modifier is the umbrella. Why not? They’re cheap and pretty easy to use. It was my first and I still use them, especially when I need to work quickly. But I did want a modifier that still created nice soft light, but also was more centered around my subjects and [...]
Photographs in Starbucks – Yes Or No?
I go to the local Starbucks all the time. While my wife and I are not on a first name basis with any of the employees (yet) some of them do know us and we kind of know them. The biggest fault of this particular store is that it is only open until 9:00pm which [...]
Tom & Meghan
I connected with Tom & Meghan in the virtual world, specifically on Twitter. I made a recent trip to the Atlanta area and it was great because several online friends became in person friends. My wife and I had dinner with Tom & Meghan and some others one night and had a super time. The [...]
Fernandina Beach
I was able to recently acquire a Nikon D90 and will use my D80 as a backup. This weekend, we took a ride up to Mayport, FL where there is a place called ‘Singleton’s Seafood Shack’ which was recently featured on Guy Fieri’s ‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.’ We then drove over to Fernandina Beach which [...]
Using Two Lights
I love the ability to be able to work with two lights because of the possibilities it brings. I was recently able to acquire a Nikon SB-900 to go along with the Nikon SB-600 I already had. My son wanted me to get some images of him playing basketball. I could have easily shot one [...]
Lenzner Family
This family came in from Wisconsin and vacation and they took some time out for portraits. It was a windy day down by the beach but things went well and it was a lot of fun. What actually made this great was there were storm clouds in the distance which made for some nice contrast.
Kids – Spring Portraits
So I decided to drag the kids out yesterday during the beautiful weather we had in Palm Coast. No clouds, but the early evening sun made for nice light and then once it started getting a little dark, I broke out the SB-600 and the umbrella.
Mother’s Day Special
The picture above is Mom with my son about 12 years ago. As you may or may not know, my mother passed away on January 24, 2010 after a battle with cancer. I was thinking of a way to honor Mom along with providing families an opportunity to have portraits done for Mother’s Day as [...]
Clemency – Portraits
This was a shoot that came about in the time frame of about 24 hours. The band (consisting of Paul and Jason Watkins with various other rotating band members) drove down from Tennessee the day before to play at the ‘Battle of the Church Bands’ at Destination Daytona so there wasn’t large window of time. [...]
Simple & Fun
When I looked through images on the Internet and in magazines and saw the off camera lighting, I thought, “Man, that looks complicated.” Granted, there are plenty of images that use complicated lighting but basic off camera lighting really is simple and it just makes all the difference in the world with an image.
Dave Suleski – Palm Coast Real Estate
Dave is a friend of mine who is a real estate agent in Palm Coast. He needed portraits done for some promotional materials.
Anatomy Of An Image
When I got back into photography after my nearly 10 year layoff, I was intimidated by the photographs I saw where people were doing cool things with flash. I’d sit there looking at images and think, “How did they do that?” When I first got a hold of a flash unit I could operate off [...]
Bike Week – Daytona Beach 2010
Bike Week in Daytona Beach, FL is perhaps the largest motorcycle rally in the United States. The week long event attracts nearly 500,000 people to the area with their motorcycles. This year, I was able to get out and shoot some images for a few hours.
Free Portrait Session Winner Announced!
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Free Portrait Session!
**UPDATE: You do not need a Facebook account to enter. However, if you do have a Facebook account, please follow both steps. Do you want to have portraits done? Been awhile? Getting married and want to have portraits done with your fiance? Graduating high school in 2010 and want senior portraits done? How about having [...]
Corporate Photo Shoot
When I created a site, I needed something that was financially smart (Right now, I don’t have the $4000 it would cost to have a custom site designed by Flosites. Some day) but also had good SEO capability. What better than a WordPress? My site actually uses a combination of two different themes. One has [...]
Help For Those In Haiti
I have been thinking about ways that I can get more involved with helping the people of Haiti. I’m not able to go down there and there’s only so much one person can donate. So what I am going to do is appeal to people to donate and get something in return as well as [...]
HDR Images
I enjoy HDR photography in small doses. Often, people go crazy with it and overdo it. They take HDR to absurd levels and use it for everything including portraits. I always believed it works best with landscape photography (people can be part of it as one below is, but they’re part of the surroundings, not [...]
Prince/Farmer Family
This was another pre-Christmas shoot. It was actually a gift from the 5 siblings to their Mom for Christmas. 11 people total. It was fun and everybody was in good spirit’s despite the chilly weather. Here are some from that day.
Isernia Family
This was truly a last minute type shoot. Called on the eve of Christmas Eve, I was asked to shoot some family portraits – on Christmas Eve morning. I had plenty to do on Christmas Eve, but I figured if we got started early enough, it would be fine. It went much better than expected. [...]
Worship Band
Our church did something new one weekend and that was to have church “in the round” so I was able to get some good vantage points for images, including being able to use a second SB-600 for some backlighting.
Granada Bridge In Ormond Beach
My two favorite models: my daughter Ally and my son Mike. These were made under the Granada Bridge in Ormond Beach, Florida.
Print Special – Three 8 x 10 Prints With Session
If you book a portrait session before December 20th, you’ll receive three 8 x 10 prints with your order in addition to the CD/DVD containing your high resolution images. This also applies to senior portraits. More info about that here.
