New Baby!

My new baby has arrived!

This is soooo exciting! Let's open the box!

Well it's definitely packed well. Thanks Dave @ LCE Canon Pro shop in Lincoln! :-D

I also a couple extras.

oohhh sexy, I love how the memory card matches the camera box. :-D Let's look in the big box now!

What I see first is my new lens! YaY! Can't wait to try it out. My friend and business partner Damon has this lens and it's supper fast and supper sharp. :-D

All my new toys! Let's open them! :-D

Camera box first...

Quick, charge that battery!!! Excuse me a minute while I go plug it in. ......

OK, now the lens... Ohhh what's that on top?

oohhh it's a lens case! Cool. :-D

YaY! My new toys! Can't wait for battery to get charged! I want to play!

New baby with lens... Battery still charging. Guess I'd better get some work done while I wait. Maybe it will be fully charged by lunch time. :-D

Happy New Year! 2009!

I spent New Years day doing a photoshoot with my two beautiful daughters. I can't think of a better way to start off the New Year! :-D Here are some of my favourites from today.

This is absolutely my favourite shot.

Photo Shoot with Lorca Simons

Today I had a fantastic time on a photo shoot with Lorca Simons. She's an actress living here in the Gloucestershire area and she's from Texas! :-D It's nice to have an American friend living near by. Anyway, I went to her house today and took all my studio equipment and we had a photo shoot. We had lots of fun and I think it went pretty well, but of course I thought of lots of ways I wish I'd asked her to pose after I got back home. Oh well, save it for next time. :-) Here are a few of my favourite shots from today of Lorca:

I really enjoyed this photos shoot with Lorca and I hope she will do another one with me again soon. I need more practice talking with and encouraging models in front of my camera. :-)

For the photographers out there this shoot was done with two studio lights, a reflector and natural light through a window. I set one light with a light box in front of her and slightly to my left. The other light, in the back and to my right, I aimed close to the ceiling near the back wall so that the light would bounce onto the back of her head and separate her from the background. I know a snoot would be better but I don't have one and this worked fine I think. There was a large window to my left so I placed a large silver reflector to my right and down low aiming the natural light towards Lorca. The black background is a large piece of black velvet and the white/grayish background is Lorca's bright white walls. I used a light meter to adjust the lighting to around an f stop of around 8. I say around 8 because I changed it a couple of times. With this set up I had to do very little post processing on the photos which saves me loads of time. It's so much better getting it right in the camera. :-)