Monthly Archives: February 2010

Keris Collage

While in Honolulu visiting family last August, I received a phone call from Katie.  Hearing her sweet voice, memories of their beautiful wedding day flashed back.  Her voice softens to a whisper as if to tell me a secret…she and Todd are expecting.  My husband rolls his eyes at me as I’m shrieking with high...

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“Let’s Go to The Beach!”

When your dog looks as you as if to say “play hookey” and “let’s go to the beach!”, it is hard to turn him down when the weather was perfection!

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Techie Talk – On Location Bio Photo

In a previous post, I talked about playing with a directional light set ups using my camera flash units, Nikon SB-800′s.  The image above is using the Lastolite 15″ softbox + SB-800 on the subject and another SB-800 bouncing off an umbrella to light the Wells Fargo stage coach in the background.  ISO set at...

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Techie Talk – Softbox vs. Umbrella for Flash

For those who have been following my “Techie Talk” posts, I’ve been playing a lot with Nikon’s CLS (Creative Lighting System), i.e. using my D200 built-in flash in “commander mode” to talk wirelessly to SB-800 off camera flashes. Over the holidays while searching for a good photography book for a friend, I stumbled upon “The...

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