Loveland Sculptures
While in Loveland, CO this past spring we spent a few minutes at Benson Sculpture Park. After all, the reason we visit Loveland is to see all the sculptures. Well I did not want to have the typical tourist photos of the sculptures so I did what I could to get interesting photos, mostly by changing the perspectives. Here are my favorites. To see all the photos from the day, look at my photos tagged “sculpture” in my Flickr photostream.
Red Hots Softball Photos
On a very hot weekend at the end of June, I was asked to photograph my niece Katie’s softball team, the BNGSA Red Hots. It is my niece’s softball team. I managed to make it though the day game where I am pretty sure it was 100 degrees in the shade, but of course there is no shade on a softball field.
I started with a team photo and then got some action shots of the team while they were warming up.
Jeffrey & Alicia
Here is my first test of the portfolio
Photo Of The Day 01/24/09 – Mark Barnes for U. City School Board
I had the honor of photographing Mark Barnes and his family for Mark’s campaign. I made a bunch of photos (hopefully some will be useful), but this is quite possibly my favorite. It is just Mark sitting on the steps in his house as I was setting up all of my gear to try to get a good family portrait. When I saw Mark on the steps I thought it might be a good photo so I grabbed a light stand and fired off a couple shots. Mark was great because he did not try to pose or do anything special for the camera.
Camera: Pentax K20 Tokina 19-35, 3.5 lens ISO 200 Aperture f/5.6 Exposure 1/180
Lighting: SB-25 @ 1/2 power (I think) into a silver umbrella to camera left triggered with AlienBees CyberSyncs.
Post Processing with Lightroom.
Mark’s campaign is one of the reasons I have taken so long to post this and Friday’s POTD. I not only got to photograph Mark, but I also get to help on his campaign with the website, or as I like to say, New Media Management. My hope is to get Mark a website (www.barnesforucity.com – but not live yet), get him on Facebook, have his photos on Flickr, and create his own YouTube channel. Perhaps I will even get him to post on Twitter, but I am not sure if there are enough U. City residents who Twitter to make it worth the effort. Maybe when he wins, we will get Twitter going and encourage people to follow his progress for improving University City Schools on there.
I hope that I don’t miss too many more days of photography, but the campaign is really exciting.
Plus if that is not enough, I have also started helping Steve Zwolak (a.k.a. Mr. Z) from UCCC with a video project he is doing. It is not being released yet, but if you are interested in early childhood education, specifically literacy, watch this five minute video, Developmental Lines.
See the rest of my Photo Of The Day posts here or just look at the photos on Flickr
Thanks for reading my ramblings,
Daddy Bill’s spot
Originally uploaded by ucitysoccer
Right now I am in the Denver airport waiting to catch my flight home. I traveled to Colorado for a sad occasion, my grandfather’s, Daddy Bill) funeral. (obituary) However, Daddy Bill had a full, wonderful life and lived for the past 50 some years on a lake in Loveland. This photo is where he would sit, relax, probably read the paper, and enjoy the beautiful view. I am sure you can see why it is such a great spot. More photos from Loveland on my flickr page with the tag, Loveland.
Updated 12/19/2009
Mia 3 times over
Originally uploaded by ucitysoccer
After reading the off camera lighting blog, Strobist.com for the past year or so, I finally took the plunge and bought a Strobist kit from Midwest Photo Exchange. Great customer service compliments of Moishe & Lily by the way. My new stuff arrived on Friday, so today (Saturday) was my first chance to play around. Mia was the only one home with me, so she became the guinea pig. Then I printed out these three photos and put them in a triple frame that Jennifer has been saving for the past four years. I liked the look so much that I wanted to replicate that on my flickr page.
I have started a new set on my flickr page specifically for my off camera flash (o.c.f.) practice so everyone can follow along and see if I can learn to do this. Wish me luck.