a.k.a. a blog by Jeffrey
family, photography, & soccer
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.
Olivia and Mia headed out to the big open blacktop behind Olivia's school, Jackson Park, on father's day to ride bikes. Olivia is working on losing her training wheels and I suspect it will only be a few more times out before she is ready for me to take them off. However, she might not want them to come off, but she will be ready. Once Olivia is no longer using training wheels, it would not surprise me if Mia takes hers off as well and is up on two wheels this summer.
I hope you enjoy the video. Sorry for the poor quality and camera shake, but it was shot using my little point and shoot digital camera in video mode, what kind of quality can you expect? You can see a couple still photos taken that day on my flickr page with the tag, bicycleraces.
Mia had her birthday party over the weekend. I was playing around and had my flash off of the camera for the whole time. (Thanks to the brilliant Strobist.com blog) Anyway, they are not amazing photos, but fun none the less. View all the photos on Flickr.
