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Working It, Lake Sam Rayburn TX That’s me working my composition during sunset. I’ve been posting so many photos of Nini lately I was starting to feel left out! And since she loves to see photos of me too, this is a mini-gift to my beautiful wife on Valentine’s Day! Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! This is a single 15 second exposure. It’s rare that I’d be moving my composition around when the colors are erupting like this. Usually I prefer to set up my composition and just wait for the colors. But this sunset was giving me trouble because the puffy clouds on the left of the frame were moving out and the wispy clouds were moving in. My composition was being ruined by what looked like dark spots on the left side of the horizon because only those last few puffs of the puffy cloud were in the frame. You can judge my final composition for yourself HERE. CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today with Jen Rozenbaum and workshop titled “Building a Successful Boudoir Business.” Check it out FOR FREE 24hrs a day for the next three days at www.creativeLIVE.com/live1 Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 14, 2013, taken February 2, 2013
Shy Smile, Nacogdoches TX This is Nini’s favorite pose from our anniversary shoot over the weekend. The only problem was that the flash didn’t fire. The batteries were running low and the flash wouldn’t recharge very fast. But her pose was great! So she made me salvage the image in processing even though I probably would have never processed something so dark. I really like the result. There is more noise and less sharpness than I’d like, but the emotion of her pose more than makes up for what this photo lacks in technical quality. The crop is straight from camera, I’ve been practicing cropping into heads and I like it! If you missed it the other day, my favorite photo from the shoot is here. CreativeLIVE is live and FREE with Jasmine Star’s wedding photography restart. Check it out at www.creativeLIVE.com/live Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 13, 2013, taken February 9, 2013
Blue Hour Reflections, Lake Sam Rayburn TX The high water at Lake Sam Rayburn makes for some beautiful reflecting pools. I tried several different compositions, but this one was kept catching my eye as I scrolled through my recent photos. I hope you like it! A previous photo of this sunset can be seen here. This is a single four minute exposure with no filters. The clouds were moving right at us and I really wanted to capture some cloud movement. This was the last photo I took before hiking back to the car in the dark. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 11, 2013, taken January 21, 2013
Nini in Black, Nacogdoches TX We had a busy day yesterday with our anniversary gifts. Nini had her massage, hair and makeup done at a local salon, and then I got to take her photo. The sky was perfectly overcast for the first hour or so giving us great natural light, but when we took a lunch break it got too cloudy to shoot without adding some flash. It was 60 degrees, which was perfect for me, but Nini was chilled. You can see her goosebumps in larger sizes. For this portrait Nini is lit with a single speedlite shot through a beauty dish with a grid on it. The grid helps to prevent the light from spilling too far in any direction, creating really cool light falloff that is fun to work with when you have a nice background. We shot it downtown Nacogdoches with a beauty dish on a stand, on several sidewalks and alleyways, and no one ever bothered us a bit. One of my goals was to do a wider shot like this that will look good printed in large sizes. It was a fun day! Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 10, 2013, taken February 9, 2013
My Love in Black and White, Nacogdoches TX I don’t usually post the same photo twice but I was really happy with how this turned out in black and white. And I think it’s fitting since Nini and I are celebrating our anniversary today with a photo shoot. For this photo Nini was lit with natural window light. There is a big styrofoam reflector just out of frame to the camera right of Nini. I also held a 20 inch silver reflector to the right of my camera to add the catch light in her eye. She is the catch light in my eye! Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 9, 2013, taken February 3, 2013
Colorful Sunset, Lake Sam Rayburn TX A colorful sunset on our favorite beach. Hopefully we’ll be there again this weekend to have an anniversary picnic. Today is our actual anniversary and we’re celebrating with friends tonight. Tomorrow we are giving each other our anniversary gift. Nini is getting an hour and a half massage, hair and makeup at a local salon. I’m getting a photoshoot with my wife! Then we’ll go out to dinner. It should be a fun anniversary for the both of us. Thanks for all of your anniversary wishes yesterday! CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today for the third day with wedding master photographer Marcus Bell. Catch the FREE re-watch all night long if you miss the live version. I actually like the re-watches better because they cut out the breaks. www.creativeLIVE.com/live UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this is a three exposure HDR. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 8, 2013, taken January 21, 2013
My Love, Nacogdoches TX Nini is the love of my life. We’re celebrating one of our third anniversaries this week. We had three weddings so that’s why we have three anniversaries every year. Tomorrow is our third, American and legal wedding anniversary. But we’re celebrating tonight so I wanted to share this photo of my angel. CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today and tomorrow with wedding master photographer Marcus Bell. Catch the FREE re-watch all night long if you miss the live version. I actually like the re-watches better because they cut out the breaks. www.creativeLIVE.com/live Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 7, 2013, taken February 3, 2013
The View, Lake Sam Rayburn TX The view from the camera that is featured in my photo from yesterday. The colors erupted after sundown as these wispy clouds moved across the horizon to cover the area where the sun had just went down. It was a very unique sunset for sure. This is a single 30 second exposure. I used a three-stop soft-step graduated ND filter and a two-stop soft-step graduated ND filter to reduce the exposure above the foreground. Critiques are always welcome. UPDATE: CreativeLIVE is live and FREE with wedding photography master Marcus Bell. The FREE re-watch just started. Visit www.creativelive.com/live often over the next three days to get a free education from one of the world's best. Daily photo: February 6, 2013, taken February 2, 2013
Front Row Seat, Lake Sam Rayburn TX We were back at Lake Sam Rayburn last weekend and were witness to a very unique sunset. The puffy clouds started to move out and the wispy clouds on the right side of the frame started to move in. The sun actually set in between these two different types of clouds and it made for a weird looking composition that I didn’t really like too much. But I got some very cool time lapses of the clouds moving across the horizon. This is a single 10 second exposure taken with my 7D on a tripod. The other camera is my 5D Mark II with a couple of graduated filters on the lens (I bought the camera used and it came with a set of 7 filters). The little square on the tip top is a three-way level mounted into the hotshoe on my wireless tranceiver, which is mounted into the hotshoe on the camera. The tripod is a Bogen 3036 and the ball head says Mod 168. Both are very heavy duty and together weigh probably 15 pounds. I bought the tripod with head for about $100.00 on craigslist. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 5, 2013, taken February 2, 2013
My Love, Nacogdoches TX

Nini is the love of my life. We’re celebrating one of our third anniversaries this week. We had three weddings so that’s why we have three anniversaries every year. Tomorrow is our third, American and legal wedding anniversary. But we’re celebrating tonight so I wanted to share this photo of my angel.

CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today and tomorrow with wedding master photographer Marcus Bell. Catch the FREE re-watch all night long if you miss the live version. I actually like the re-watches better because they cut out the breaks. http://www.creativeLIVE.com/live

Critiques are always welcome.

Daily photo: February 7, 2013, taken February 3, 2013
My Love, Nacogdoches TX Nini is the love of my life. We’re celebrating one of our third anniversaries this week. We had three weddings so that’s why we have three anniversaries every year. Tomorrow is our third, American and legal wedding anniversary. But we’re celebrating tonight so I wanted to share this photo of my angel. CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today and tomorrow with wedding master photographer Marcus Bell. Catch the FREE re-watch all night long if you miss the live version. I actually like the re-watches better because they cut out the breaks. www.creativeLIVE.com/live Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 7, 2013, taken February 3, 2013
My Love, Nacogdoches TX

Nini is the love of my life. We’re celebrating one of our third anniversaries this week. We had three weddings so that’s why we have three anniversaries every year. Tomorrow is our third, American and legal wedding anniversary. But we’re celebrating tonight so I wanted to share this photo of my angel.

CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today and tomorrow with wedding master photographer Marcus Bell. Catch the FREE re-watch all night long if you miss the live version. I actually like the re-watches better because they cut out the breaks. http://www.creativeLIVE.com/live

Critiques are always welcome.

Daily photo: February 7, 2013, taken February 3, 2013
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