Category Archives: Lighting

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Cinthya and Kyle’s Cutting of the Cake

Cinthya and Kyle had a beautiful cake. I had a strobe set up on the bar to camera left for the sidelight seen. Gotta love Nikon’s CLS!

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Light Capture

As a photographer I try to capture light in a creative way. This little boy was taking it much more literally. He was running and grabbing at the DJ’s lights as they danced across the floor.

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My Father in Law Testing Lee’s Sig

Lee (my wife who is a Dallas Police Officer) has a Sig 380 for her backup weapon. It has been jamming recently so my father-in-law and I went out in the Ozark Forest this weekend to test it out. This shot was in the rain and I used my Radio Poppers to trigger the off camera flash mounted on my tripod.

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Virginia and Brooks with Stormy Clouds

This is another shot that wouldn’t have been possible without my Radio Poppers. These things are great. More post processing was done with the awesome Totally Rad Actions in Photoshop.

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Virginia’s Bridal Portrait

I love how Virginia’s portraits turned out. This was in the the ceremony room at Lawton Estates in Garland, Texas and it was unbelievably dark. Thanks to Nikon CLS (creative lighting system) and my RadioPoppers for reliability. The Radio Poppers are a must have item for a wedding photographer. The off camera flash was on a small C-clamp attached to a lamp on the wall to Virginia’s left.

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Waiting for Friends

This image is simple enough.  I liked the back light from the doorway through the glass.

It’s called  “Waiting for Friends”

RadioPopper Taking Orders This Week (I hope)

The RadioPopper is a new device that has the potential to really shake up the way photographers handle remote lighting.  Until now there has been no reliable way to control the settings of remote flashes from the photographer’s location.  The RadioPopper seems destined to change all of that.  Finally, i-TTL with Nikon’s CLS (Creative Lighting System) with reliable long distance and outdoor use.  I can’t wait to get these to use at receptions!  And if that isn’t enough, how about high speed radio flash sync all of the way up to 1/8000 second!! The product is the brain child of Arizona wedding photographer Kevin King. It is awesome to witness true American ingenuity at work.  You can read more at Kevin’s BLOG and his WEBSITE.

Side Lighting and Cake

Side Lit CakeThis is one of my favorite cake shots to date.  This is shot on tripod with the SB-800 strobe attached with a bungee cord on camera right.