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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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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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