Roxie – Home

12. January 2012 · Comments Off on Roxie – Home · Categories: Image a Day · Tags: ,

So for today’s Photo of the Day I decided to shoot the dog. (Not literally obviously although it has crossed my mind in the past). Anyway we put her on the sofa (where she spends most of the night anyway) and got the camera out. Would you believe it she wouldn’t sit still! She was all over the place. We have this blanket on the sofa and Roxie got in that and then calmed down for 30 seconds. Finally I got this shot. Of course the moment I put the camera down she lied down into the perfect pose 🙁 Typical!

I’m calling this one “afternoon tea”, thank you American Girl doll for the loan of the china.

Afternoon Tea

Flower Reflection – Home

07. January 2012 · Comments Off on Flower Reflection – Home · Categories: Image a Day · Tags: ,

As today is Saturday I decided to do something different.

I went out to QFC and brought some flowers.  Got home and put them on top of a clean piece of perspex and put a black reflector behind the flowers.  Set up a couple of lights (one soft box and one grid) and took a load of images.

This one came out well, the flower reflection looks really nice and colors were great.

I had this idea of a shot where one of the Halo guys is looking cool while a girl walks past.  But I didn’t have a girl for them to pose for!  Abi to the rescue, she provided the little dole and the picture was made.  It was only after the fact that Abi pointed out that the doles pants are falling down!  Clearly she is from a rough part of town 🙁

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Abi – Home

04. January 2012 · Comments Off on Abi – Home · Categories: Image a Day · Tags: ,

I’m finding this is either really easy to do, or amazingly difficult.  How busy I am at work also plays a huge part in my output (obviously), and today was a very bad day at work.

I got home pretty late at night without any idea of what I was going to upload.  Abi had her gymnastics class earlier in the day and still had her leotard on and kindly offered to pose for me.  She rushed upstairs to wash her hair while I set up lights.

This was a three light shot, soft box in the front providing fill, gridded spot on her face as the key and a hair light behind.  Being only 8 Abi is not the best at keeping still and kept adopting “poses” for the images.  The shot below was my favorite facial expression but she did move slightly to her left (camera right) so you can see more of the hair light than planned.

That said I’m still happy with the portrait and need to thank her as she saved my bacon – day three and struggling (isn’t this what all New Year Resolutions are like?)

For Christmas Lisa got me some little camera’s that you stick on your monitor.  They look really realistic so I set up a little camera shoot for the Halo dudes:

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