Hi, remember me??
Ah how the holidays do take up our time. Anyway, after a long time away I’m back with a few new shoots!
My sister site, Rushmonkeys.com did a couple of features on paintball and my partner, Tasha, and I came back to do a photo shoot!

It was a nice, sunny day (if a [...]

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 [...]

Stopped into Bicycle Sport Shop in Austin, TX today to see who I could see! I came across a very friendly staff that was very eager to participate in my portrait madness.

My subject ended up being Stephen, one of the resident rental mechanics. Stephen learned how to work on bikes up in Denton, [...]

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 [...]

Hi everyone!
I had the pleasure of photographing the BMX racers at the ABA State Qualifiers this past weekend.  It was a blast, though the hottest event I’ve ever done portraits at.  It stayed a pretty steady 102 degrees for the duration. But I manage to get some fun pictures of some cool riders of [...]

On Thursday, June 25, I had the opportunity to shoot the captain of the Austin Aztex, Gifton Noel-Williams. The shoot took place at Avila Soccer, a soccer training facility in North Austin. It’s run by Eryck Avila, a former pro player for Puerto Rico. Very nice guy!
The environment was great for doing a portrait. It [...]

As promised, here is the second part of the shoot: Low Key lighting with basically the same setup.

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The lighting setup is the same as here, but in the first shot, there is no rim light at all and the beauty dish is moved even more overhead to accentuate the shadows. Also, the reflector [...]