Monthly Archives: June 2010

Dog Photography – Bulldog Poses for Portrait

Charlie, the bulldog, is friendly and deceivingly strong. He brushed up against me to let me know it was my turn to pet him and he almost knocked me over! He is all muscle – wish I could just eat and catch a ball to be this svelte with solid muscle to my core.

Marc and I were photographing this Beverly Hills condo and while Marc was busy grabbing the last few architectural photos, I grabbed the only portrait lens I had on me, to sneak a few of this charming, yet studly dog. Usually I would use my 85mm 1.4 to shoot such a calm dog and give me lots of yummy light inside the house.  But alas, all I had on me was 24-70mm f/2.8.  Thank you Nikon for your ISO loveliness and thank you Lightoom for your new noise reduction.  It’s a symphony with only two instruments.

Oh, and doesn’t the decor just speak my name?  Ahhh yes, I hear it too…..(Tiffany, Tiffany….. Tiffany – you should definitely live in this chic Beverly Hills condo).

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Maternity Photos – Beverly Hills

Love these two. They are so fun to be around and as you can see Alexia’s smile is radiant. One of my favorite things is photographing confident and happy people! Alexia just has that great personality that lites up in front of a camera and I enjoyed every minute photographing her!

We went up to Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills and ended at our studio in Burbank. You might remember we photographed a wedding at Greystone and love the wonderful architecture and lovely gardens.

I love maternity photos with the couple together. You get to see the love and happiness they both share during this special time and of course the glow of a mother-to-be makes for some beautiful photographs. This is Alexia and Eric’s first baby and both Marc and I are looking forward to future game nights and backyard BBQ’s with these two – soon to be three.

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Studio Lighting for a Model

Just because I usually shoot natural light, doesn’t mean we don’t know how to rock the technical lighting. Some of these are in our new studio and while I did sneak in a few natural light moves in my new favorite field, you can see that this shoot was more about the dramatic lighting. The last ones were taken at night at our studio as well. Night photography is a first for us. Fun to shoot in a totally dark environment and really mold the light to do what we want without any ambient light filling the shadows. Most of these were done with 2-3 Nikon SB 800′s. Don’t need powerful strobes when there is no ambient light to overpower the flashes. The lighting is cool but everything looks better with a hot model!

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