One of the baseball players I took pictures of for the cover of ESPN rise just graduated high school and was drafted 5th overall by the Orioles! Im really happy he went so high. Hes a great guy and I wish him the best.

Here are some photos.

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ISO: 250
Aperture: 10
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Lighting: Two hard side lights, one front light with a 20 degree grid slightly under so his glove casts a shadow on his face.

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Lighting
One light, with only a reflector hand held by my assistant straight in front of him.

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I used hard side light by using two strip boxes but I took off the diffuser in the front for a higher output. Also, my assistant (Ric Tapia) is holding the light up towards him so its gets under his hat.

Thanks for looking! I will should have another one pretty soon. I promise.

Here are some portraits I did for ESPN Rise magazine on one of the top female basketball players in the country. She was great to work with and was a natural in front of the camera.

Plus I felt pretty short next to here (shes 6′2).

This was for a cover and inside feature story so I tried to get some photos in her normal clothes as well as her uniform.

Here are some of my favorites.

Be sure to click on the photos for larger sizes.

3 lights, 1 beauty dish in front two lights in back with strip boxes. (same light set up as below minus the background light and background.) You may notice this pose from a recent post of mine.

Camera: NIKON D3
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
Lens (mm): 62
ISO: 200
Aperture: 13
Shutter: 1/250
Exp. Comp.: +0.7
Program: Manual
ICC Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

Camera: NIKON D3
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
Lens (mm): 70
ISO: 200
Aperture: 14
Shutter: 1/250
Exp. Comp.: +0.7
Program: Manual
ICC Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

1 beauty dish off to the right of the camera sun used for back light

Camera: NIKON D3
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
Lens (mm): 29
ISO: 200
Aperture: 14
Shutter: 1/250
Exp. Comp.: +0.7
Program: Manual
ICC Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

1 beauty dish with ab800 front, strip box upper right corner (behind)(for separation) a 20 degree grid spot on the basket (low power)

Camera: NIKON D3
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh

Camera: NIKON D3
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
Lens (mm): 42
ISO: 200
Aperture: 16
Shutter: 1/250
Exp. Comp.: +0.7
Program: Manual
ICC Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

Assistant Ric holds the Beauty dish and Christina’s mom helps out by holding the side light.

Ric again holds the beauty dish, up and over this time. AB800.

1 beauty dish with ab800 off to the left, sun from back

Camera: NIKON D3
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
Lens (mm): 60
ISO: 200
Aperture: 13
Shutter: 1/250
Exp. Comp.: +0.7
Program: Manual
ICC Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

1 beauty dish with ab800 off to the left, sun from back

Camera: NIKON D3
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
Lens (mm): 70
ISO: 200
Aperture: 13
Shutter: 1/250
Exp. Comp.: +0.7
Program: Manual
ICC Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

So, its been a long time since my last entry, I know. I have a few excuses! I swear! First, the magazines I work for have to print the photos before I can post them. Second, I’m lazy. OK, well I’m not lazy, but over the past few months I have been neglecting my blog. That is going to change. I am going to try and blog a lot more often. I have a few blogs I am going to try and post this week starting with this one, so please stay tuned.

For this shoot I was in Hawaii for one of my friends from highs schools wedding. He asked if I could come by and bring my camera and In return he would pay for mine and my wife’s plane tickets and condo stay for a week. Not a bad deal if I say so. He also gave me a little cash

Every day we drove by this sugar cane field on the way to the beach I wanted to stop and take a photo in, so finally on the day of there wedding the brides hair and makeup was late so I had an extra hour to kill. I took the my friend and his best man out to the field and did a few shots. This is my favorite one.

I used one Strip box with a grid on the front. The box was set up in the front right vertically. There wasn’t much going in the photo so I decided to have his best man throw up his tie to make it look like it was flying in the wind. I later added a plane in photoshop. There were planes coming and going over that location but we had very little time to shoot and he really wanted it in there.

Settings:

Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Firmware: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
Lens (mm): 24
ISO: 100
Aperture: 9
Shutter: 1/160