“Versus”…Project 52

Fine Art, lighting, Personal Project |

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“Versus”…Project 52

Okay, I’m at it again. Last night about 10pm I got the urge to be creative and the result is….”Versus”….my next Project 52 image. Now if you’ve lived on planet earth for at least the last 10 years, you’ve heard of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Well, the most well known of the MMA leauges is the “UFC” or Ultimate Fighting Championship. This image is my idea of what it would look like if I was in a UFC fight against…well, me. This is a little twist on my “Mirror, Mirror” image and ultimately the good and evil at battle within all of us. We’ve all felt it before….the battle within our hearts and minds between good and evil. It’s the battle that mankind has been fighting since the beginning. The Bible even talks about it in the book of Romans. Setting aside all this deep stuff I think I accomplished my goal of creating a really cool image.

Now for some techincal insight. I’ve included a shot of my actual set up for you. As you can see I’ve turned my laundry room into my shooting room. (My wife gets so annoyed…LOL). I have a 27 inch softbox camera right with a 300ws strobe on 1/4 power that I’m looking into. On the opposite side and slightly behind me I have an Off Camera Flash acting as a kicker light to give the shadow side some seperation. I believe it was set to 1/8 power. I used a 4ft white reflector below the main light to add some fill. My camera settings were 1/90 at iso 200  with my apature at f.5.6. I took both images in the exact same place and simply flipped the second shot in photoshop so it was facing the first one. That’s it. If you have any questions or feedback make sure to leave me a comment.

The fight of the century!!!

My laundry room turned studio….nice!

My boys |

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The Boys

Wow, it’s hard to believe that summer is almost over….at least at my house. My boys will be going back to school in a few weeks. I remember growing up we didn’t go back to school until the week before Labor Day. Well, I got the boys to model for me last night and I thought I’d share a few pics. These were shot in our driveway. The field in the background is across the street. We often see deer and turkey walking through the field. A week or so ago we had a coyote walk thorugh the field and cross the road. As always please feel free to leave feedback.

Central Indiana Senior Photography |

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Andrew

Last Friday I had a session with Andrew. We had a great time. He will be a senior this year at Lebanon Senior High School. One of the things I found out was that Andrew loves video games. So, we took a controller and created a crazy “Video Game Maniac” shot for him. We had a great time. Thanks Andrew for letting me create your senior pictures.

Fine Art, Personal Project |

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Attack of the Books

Here is the next installment in the “Project 52″ series entitled….”Attack of the Books”. If you want to know more about the project and if you want to see the rest of the series you can find it all here.  Here is the story for this shot. I love to read. I love books. I love to read books. When I was first married Julie would get so aggrivated with me because I would stay up into the late hours of the night reading. Well, little has changed. I have a garage full of plastic totes and those totes are filled with books. I love books. Last weekend while we where camping I managed to read a six hundred page novel. How, I stayed up late and read. I love books and reading…get it? Good. Well my idea with this shot was to create a “dream” like effect where my books have “turned” on me and have started to attack me. I thought it would be a fun idea and I’m pleased with how it turned out. I hope you enjoy. As always please leave a comment. Now here is some technical stuff for all the other photogs our there. This photo is actually 12 individual photos stiched together to form a composite. The first pic was of me. I have four flashed set up around the room and I’m shooting from a tripod set low in my entry way. I have two flashed on either side of me and slightly back behind me. I have a third flash on a boom arm over my head and slightly in front of me. The fouth flash is camera right. They were all fired wirelessly and the settings were….ISO 100, 1/180 sec at f 5.6. For the rest of the pics I had my wife throwing books, papers, etc. while I sat on the floor and shot them. Once I had the pics I pieced them together in photoshop and ….Walla!!

Camping, family, My boys, my wife |

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Brookville Lake Camping

This last weekend my family and I enjoyed the 4th of July celebration camping at Brookville Lake in East Central Indiana. We had an awesome time. We did some BBQing, fishing, swimming and sitting around being lazy. All in all it was a very relaxing weekend. I’ve attached a few pics taken with the iphone to this post. I hope your weekend was as relaxing as mine!!

4th of July at the beach….now that’s what I’m talking about!!!

Good looking just like his Daddy!!

The Dam at Brookville lake….180 feet high and over 3000 feet long.

Brookville Lake Overlook and my beautiful wife!!

Oh yeah, I’m looking good. This is my favorite summer time pastime!!!