Wallpaper Wednesday

My husband and I just finished an epic series of trips. We flew to Scottsdale, AZ for our future God Daughters baby shower (Elle should be here this month! Very excited!), rented a car and drove to LA (got to see so many of my awesome friends and family), drove with one of my best friends and her sister to San Fran (where we got to meet so many new friends), flew home, had a visit from the awesome Cousin Pete, flew to Portland, OR (and totally fell in love with it out there). I think we completed all these trips in less than 4 weeks. Now I could promise that I’ll be better at posting Wallpaper Wednesdays and I was just flaking on these posts because of the nature of being on the road, but one quick look in the archives would dispell this myth fast. I’m terrible at it. This time last year (shhhh don’t tell anyone) I had my awesome intern (and super talented) photographer turned, assistant to the city planner, turned romancer of my little sister (she’s moving in with him this fall) Matt Mornick write all my blog posts. Go to his website and check out his blog posts. If he wasn’t distracted by his new socially responsible path of hopefully becoming a city planner someday he could deviate and make an amazing photographer. So now it’s up to me. To try and focus (ambitious). Can I do it? Can I actually buckle down and dedicate one blog post a week to an image that dear reader, you can post as your wallpaper? I hope so but won’t’ be holding my breath either.

My husband Sam posted this image on Facebook just after our trip, guess he was too excited to wait to show everyone (given my history with posting wallpapers I will let him off the hook). He’s had this as his background image since then (3 weeks?) he loves it and so do I. Making this a great image to start with!

Lighting setup, 3 lights, 3 ways.

 

Sam makes an excellent light testing model. This is a basic light setup that I like to use for portraits in my studio. It’s 3 lights, 2 on the background and one key light on the model. By simply turning the background lights on and off or turning them towards the model we get 3 entirely different light setups. Love it!

Biscayne Park vintage car show

On Saturday morning my shoot canceled. Always a bummer. But the good news was my friends and neighbors were bringing their car (and tiny chihuahua Taco) down to a car show in the center of our little town. So I walked down there and brought my camera, took some fun shots of their car (a Lamborghini named Hazzardo that looks very similar to the Bat Car) along with some of the other cool cars there. Maybe it was because of my love for UK Top Gear or growing up in a car family (thanks dad) but it was way too fun shooting these classic cars. In all the shooting excitement, I forgot to put on sunblock, which left me a nice burn. I think the pictures were worth it (and yes, that is Taco standing on  Hazzardo).

Update on the fine art prints for Imoto, Palm Beach

My prints for the Palm Beach new restaurant Imoto were due to be finished today, I drove down to Color House in Miami to do one last quality control and two of the three prints looked great. But the third print was a little off (they caught the mistake before I got there but this is why you have to check over everything you do) they had already started removing it from the plexi mounting. There is a  reason they tell you it is a permanent adhesion to the Plexiglas when you frame this way. Removing the print completely ruins it and takes 3 guys. It was awesome. This was one of the rare times I actually had my point and shoot Panasonic Lumix with me and so I grabbed some photo’s and a little video of the process to show how messy it is.

PDN’s 30 is out

Since college I watched PDN’s 30 (previously 30 under 30) as the landmark of who to watch emerging in photography. Over the years they dropped the under 30 requirement (which was always loose anyway). I turned 30 this year, guess I still have time….
Kill some time browsing the winners and the amazing work they are producing!

PDN’s 30

One of my favorites, this Mark Fisher of Fisher Creative image:

 

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