As a little present to myself, I thought I’d take a birthday portrait (No, not in my birthday suit, luckily for you!). I thought it would be fun to do a quick set up in a non-studio environment to show how you can take a place that isn’t particularly set up for shooting and [...]

Now that the dry part is done, it’s time for the wetness to begin! So about 30 seconds after we started shooting this setup, it started to rain in earnest. And then it just kept on raining more and more until finally we had had enough. But not before we caught some [...]

Sometimes nature has a funny sense of humor. But I guess living in Austin, TX I should have realized that by now.
Emily and I had planned to shoot for a while and finally the stars aligned so that we could get together and attempt to make some magic! The weather forecast [...]

On Wednesday’s shoot, we had Kaydence in front of a lovely shag carpet, lit from 2 sources with one reflector? Well what happens when we strip away everything but a blank wall and one diffuse light source?

In this setup, the only thing lighting Kaydence was one 4 foot octobox. She had no reflector [...]

Hi all!
Thanks for sticking with me in my time of few shoots! I managed to wrangle my equipment away from my commercial gig to get some time in with a model here in Austin, TX for some fashion/editorial work. Now, obviously the clothing isn’t terribly Haute Couture, but the lighting principles could be [...]

Down in South Austin there is a place where men, women, and children go to cleanse themselves of all things healthy. Where cholesterol flows in rivers of sweet, donut shaped goodness. That place is Gourdouh’s. It’s one of the most esteemed donut shops in Austin. The donuts are served out of an [...]

I had such a great time with Chloe at our country shoot that we decided to do it again!

Shooting fashion is always fun since you usually get to work with a team (stylists, model, art director and so forth, but this time it was just myself, Chloe, and our makeup and hair artist, Maggie Bosworth.  [...]

After taking a portrait of Jeff the friendly bartender, I ventured inside. The management at Opal Divine’s was nice enough to let me take a portrait of a cook, Felix.

In keeping with the theme of using ambient light, I brought the flash in, but slowed down the shutter long enough to let in some [...]

I swung by Opal Divine’s Marina in North Austin today to do some people watching and found a sucker waiter nice enough to let me take his portrait!

Since it was a pretty erratic day, weather-wise, I decided to focus on using my flash subtly to give the subject a nice modeled look without looking too [...]

For today’s shoot, my brave model, Chloe, and I braved 103 degree heat to shoot at Canyon Lake, just North of New Braunfels, TX.
The location was great, if a little hard to get to, and definitely worth the hour drive.

Setup:
The main light is a beauty dish’d strobe, above and left of the model, illuminating the [...]