Summer in October!

The weather this past week has been incredible!  Highs in the 70's, sun shining, light breeze, just beautiful!  The other evening I grabbed the hubby and the dog and went to Miramar Beach.  It was a -1.5 tide which left us with acres of reflective beach before you got to the ocean!  So incredible!!!

 

Coffee....

So, about a year ago I was having these, oh, I don't know, heart palpitations...kinda' racing, really irritating.  My Dr. hooked my up to a heart monitor for over a month, from which I was highly allergic to the stick stuff on the nodes that have to be stuck to you in three different places...lovely!  OK, so, the next step was to out the caffeine completely.  Wasn't thinking today, had a large coffee at 10:00 this morning and am still paying for it.  Yup, coffee (caffeine) is my problem.  NO MORE CAFFEINATED COFFEE!!!

Self Portrait

Ok, so what better way to study and understand lighting than to work it on yourself right.  Right!!!  Although I can get a lot of what I am trying to accomplish working with Gromit the Boxer Dog, it is the shadows on the face, the skin tones and the over all look that just doesn't always work with the fur kid.  Gotta love him though.  He just laid down next to the tripod and signed when I told him to go...
Even then he got a treat!

Here I was working with a single light source about 45º to camera right and a white reflector on my phyiscal right...your left.  I had two strobes set up on the background, blocked both of those from reflecting back on myself.  Still need to perfect the all white background.

Lightning

I photographed this truck last week (we had been trying to get on the calendar for almost a year now - coastal weather and a black truck - ha).  The weather was perfect.  Tried a bunch of different locations here on the coast and finally ended at the harbor for sunset.  Here are two of my favorites.  The one with the lightning is a composite.

Hanging out with the Pumpkins

Took a few minutes today to hang out with Gromit over at Farmer John's Pumpkin Patch.

 

I just love the look on his face.

Fabulous Photo Shoot with a beautiful 69 Camero