Jungle Boy

My nephew broke his wrist last week and wanted a picture before the cast comes off. He's studying to be an actor so I thought this might make a good character shot. Had my 580 EX2 camera right going through my homemade beauty dish and a Quantum flash with no diffusion on the outer edges of the tree line pointing directly towards the camera. Shot this with my 70-200 f/4 at 1/30sec.

Fred

LINK

Hi everybody,

if you do weddings see this norwegian photographers pics. OK or wot?

Link: http://www.terjeaamodt.com/blog/2009/08/20/bryllup-andalsnes-stavanger/

regards, Bjarne

Capturing Movement

I'm now officially two month's behind in posting to the topic, but I thought I would share this one of my friend, Monica, that was taken with available light in the Boston subway. I used high ISO out of necessity, but really love the graininess and the sense of motion.

I am still planning to do a sheet shot. I'll post when it gets done.

Meanwhile, I have been shooting mostly portraits and am learning about the joys of photographing kids and their families when one or more of the kids do not want to be photographed. I've gotten some pretty amusing pictures, but, unfortunately, not what the parents are looking for.

I'm really enjoying the work that everyone is posting and continue to be inspired by Joe's blog and, of course, his work.

Virginia

August is Jumping Fun

Here's my submission for the August assignment (it is still August).

The setup I used was a full length backdrop, two umbrella's with remote triggered Canon 580EX2 speedlites. Both lights are camera left, the main light is coming in from above and the secondary light is coming in from below at a reduced lighting level. The camera is set to Aperature Priority so the shutter speed was 1/250sec, the lens is a 24-105mm set at about 24mm.

I then asked each young lady (Stacie, Amy) to jump up into the air. The trick was making sure to get all their appendages into the frame and to get a fun looking pose. I have to hand it to Amy who was jumping with heels on, very brave. The camera was tethered to my laptop, so we could see the results quickly and try different things. We certainly had a good time taking these pictures.

My best to everyone,

David Gralian

http://www.davidgralian.com/

david@davidgralian.com

August

Here's my assignment for August - single studio strobe with modeling light on high to capture the blur. Hope everyone is enjoying the end of the summer season. Looking forward to the fall.

Fred

Dignan at the cabin

Hey All--

Here are my shots for the August assignment. My family has a cottage on a little lake in Michigan, and my dog, Dignan, loves to "fetch" off the dock. Obviously I was limited in terms of light position in the shot of him flying through the air (difficult to mount a light stand on water), so the flash is almost direct (it was in the paddleboat with me). In the picture of him shaking off, the strobe is camera right. I wish I would've underexposed the ambient more here and bumped the flash power up, but you have to think & act fast to even catch this shot in the first place... you never know where & when he's going to shake off! The shot of him on the dock is a direct flash from camera left (cross lighting with the sun), and the fun one is just him finally checking out this flash business up close!

Motion

so here's the latest.  slow shutter, tripod and table top technique to fast shutter hand held.

That's the how, the why I'm finding more and more is the question I'm asking myself theses days.

What do I really want to say and what is trying to happen in the image.  In this case our friend Susie is a movement artist and soon to be dance student.   She's leaving us for school

and I wanted to comment on the potential of her talent before being refined.  That was the why

and it was the difference in achieving something technically and actually discovering something personally.

Fun with the EZYBox

I am really loving the EZYBox - my neighbors were having a yard sale yesterday so I had to grab this shot.

Grid for Ezybox

Hi everybody,

I am looking for a grid for my Ezybox 24x24" (60x60 cm.), but I cannot find any at Lastolite.

Does anybody know where to find a grid that fit the Ezybox?

Thanks, Bjarne

July Assignment

Here's my assignment for July. Took some begging on my part but I got my daughter to finally pose for a shot and to wear my hat as well!

This is a single 580EX II through a Days Inn Diffusor.

Here are the set

up shots - I used my kitchen counter top as a flag to concentrate the light on her face.

Fireworks from the East

Had to post a firework image from the East Coast, Jersey Shore. The one in the distance is from Ocean City, NJ. The main one is Margate, NJ, just south of Atlantic City.

4th of July Fireworks

We had a great 4th of July, I trust everyone else did. I took some photos of the fireworks and if you are interested I posted some at my blog that you can check out at www.davidgralian.com/blog.

Have a GREAT DAY!!!!

David Gralian
http://www.davidgralian.com/
www.davidgralian.com/blog
email: david@davidgralian.com