Manu & the grid spot
This is the second and final shot I’m posting of my friend Manuel from San Francisco Daily Photo. This was taken using a single Canon 580 EX II using a 1/8 Honl Speed Grid. The strobe was positioned to the camera right, about 6 feet up on a light stand, 1/4 power and [...]
A fun evening
Last Sunday evening, after shooting Manuel, I met up with my friend Jorge and his family for an informal portrait session. Jorge is a San Francisco lad and was keen to be photographed with a San Francisco icon in the background so we headed into the Marin Headlands and used the Golden Gate Bridge [...]
In a dark tunnel
As you may be aware I’m trying to get a time-for-prints project off the ground. It hasn’t been easy to get any takers thanks mostly to the recent Media Temple outage that took my site offline for a week. Thankfully Manuel over at San Francisco Daily Photo came to my rescue and came [...]
A softbox & a lot of itching!
Let this post serve as a warning, scout your location well before you or your subject enter the area. I didn’t and now we all have Poison Oak, and it itches like crazy!
Now, onto the shot. I didn’t request this surprised look, however it’s the only shot out of about 100 where they [...]