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 [...]
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 [...]
Pouting & related activities
This is one of the first portraits I took using off-camera lighting. It’s shot against a pure white wall and was really a test shot to help me understand the effects of shutter speed & aperture on the photograph. Now, some of you may have not heard the one statement that really helped [...]
Mum & son at sunset
I’ve watched all of the Zack Arias photo critiques and the one constant theme in all of them is to not post multiple images of the same person on your site. Some of us have no option! I’m an immigrant so the only people I know are through work & are generally not [...]
Monkey silhouette
I have watched the Zack Arias One Light DVD’s a few times now & I believe I’m starting to grasp the foundations. There is a shot he does on the DVD where he turns the room white with Sunpak 120J and I’ve had a go at replicating it but I need more practice. [...]