tools of medicine

A shot for Duke "tools of Medicine".The first images was trying to simulate overhead garage light and it looked to flat ( overhead softbox and alittle fill). The other image were shot with the 20in beauty dish with grid upper left and a 7in grid coming from the right.

Giclée

Got around to ordering some Giclée prints 16x20's only $7.95 plus 40% off. Check out Winkflash www.winkflash.com.

Home based business American Gothic

Working on a story about home based businesses, women who juggle working from home and being a mom. A take off on American Gothic. Had the AB's out main camera left and a backlight coming from camera right behind the subjects.

Going to the dogs

I was down in Sanford shooting an article on the Bon-Clyde dog acting school. How can you take a bad picture of a dog ? The owners of the dogs were worried about the flash when the dogs were jumping. I tried to shoot ambient light ISO at 1200, mixed lighting daylight,fluorescent and sodium vapor the images looked really bad. At the end of doggie class I set-up some strobes, Profoto 1200 umbrella left and beauty dish on right on the jump, Profoto 600 with reflector for the ceiling.

jones street revisit

I went back to Jones street the other night, they seem to be making progress on the demolition. I'm shooting at @ 8:45 PM, the sky is totally dark to the eye @ f5.6 for 20-30 sec. with a tungsten color balance. To me it's like magic when the preview on the camera comes up the blue of the sky just pops.

foot fetish final

The final image from the "foot fetish" shoot. See the set-up at http://breganphoto.blogspot.com/2008/02/foot-fetish.html

Rose Post

I was in Salisbury NC the other day to photograph Rose Post for NC Our State Magazine. I seem to be back on my hard light kick again. All were shot with a 22in Profoto Beauty dish with grid and either a standard reflector bounced for fill or small grid. I broke down and bought the tenba case for the beauty dish $185, ouch bend me over .... it was getting knocked around and abused. My case fetish continues, my camera bag has been a disaster for awhile, I got a lightware 1420 as a new camera bag about a month ago, but haven't made the transfer. To get back to Rose Post, it was one of those neat people assignments. A very charming woman. It was like stepping back in time with the decor of the home. I took twice as many photo's as I usually do she kept talking and telling these great stories. She asked me my name about 20 times during the shoot.