Monthly Archives: October 2008

Check Your Straps…

October 29, 2008 – 11:55 am

My river-rat friends have a saying that “you can’t have too many straps”. But from time to time we should try to keep an eye on the condition of those straps. We use them for so many things, mostly for securing down things of value, and often take their integrity for granted. Here, I am [...]

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Family Portrait…

October 23, 2008 – 12:07 pm

We started off this family portrait discussing some props we could use and the ideas just grew from there!. Pretty soon we had a complete artist’s bedroom set on their deck, complete with objects d’art that are special to them. He’s a writer and she’ll be a midwife soon and we wanted the shots to say [...]

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Birthday Weekend…

October 23, 2008 – 11:56 am

You got to love it when your birthday falls on a weekend. My wife mentioned about a month ago to keep Thursday the 16th open after 5PM because she was taking me out for my birthday. Nothing special, she said, just a nice dinner out. It appears my really good friends from Arizona were visiting [...]

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Spidertime in SW Portland…

October 8, 2008 – 9:40 am

Lots of spiders around our studio this time of year and I love getting outside and photographing them. I always remember a line from a John Shaw seminar, “the closer you look, the more there is to see”! Tech info: Canon 5D, 100mm f2.8 macro lens w/12mm Extension Tube, ISO 1000, 1/60 sec @ f5.6

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Family Portraits…

October 8, 2008 – 9:33 am

Readers of my blog may remember this client from her maternity shoot a few months back, and here’s the latest. This was always the plan, to come back in the studio for some quiet, detailed portraits in B+W after her son was born. It was a lot of fun getting to know the new family!

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