My Sunday Morning With Sophia

Yesterday I photographed a happy and playful six-month-old, Sophia.

These are fun shoots because I photographed her mom when she was pregnant, Sophia at 3 months, and now at 6 months.

It is difficult, though, to capture the speed at which these kids move.  My suggestion is to boost your ISO to at least 800 and set the shutter speed to at least 1/250 in Shutter Priority.  I used a 60 mm Micro Nikkor to get close and shot between f/2.8 and f/4.  If necessary, use exposure compensation to raise or lower the exposure.  Here, with white as the backdrop, I used a +2/3 exposure compensation to get the whites white.

Sophia was a wonderfully behaved subject, and took about 200 exposures to capture her essence.

Here are a few shots.  Enjoy, and till next time, happy shooting.

My Second Entry

Hi Everyone and welcome back.

Yesterday was my first post on the new WordPress blog.  I’m beginning to learn the interface so there’ll be changes as we go along.  One of those changes is the ability to move all my Blogspot entries to this site.  I’m working on that as you read this.

Two weeks ago I was involved in a C.L.A.S.S. shootout with my friend Laurie from Photogenic Images.  A shootout is just a bunch of photogs gathering together and shooting in a random studio sitting.

We were hosted by Anthony Decarlo and Steve Balzo, photographers out of New Haven who rent a large studio space.  C.L.A.S.S. is an organization devoted to shooting started by Collages.net.  Check them and the images out.

As things normalize with the website and blog, I’ll be posting regularly again.  Thanks for stopping and happy shooting.

My New Blog!

Hi and welcome back.

I haven’t been blogging lately or you’ve not been able to access my blog for some technical reasons.  After building my new site, I had issues with linking blogspot, but now I’m with WordPress and all is right with the world.

After a crazy two weeks, I’m finally back on track. Just a few more bugs to work out of my website and we are all systems go!

Here are a few images from the past two weeks.  Enjoy.

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