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Skater Dude

My nine year old son Trey wants to be the next Tony Hawk. The problem is we live in the country and have a gravel road and gravel driveway. The only place for him to practice is inside the garage. Now here is a moment of complete honesty. Our garage is a “MESS” and it’s not the best place for a nine year old Tony Hawk wannabe to practice. So, he ends up taking his skateboard with us in our van when we go places in hopes of being able to skate. This last weekend we spent time at my parents for Father’s Day. Well, Trey brought his skateboard and we even took him to the local park where they have a “skatepark”.  He was in “nine year old heaven.” I took this pic of him last night in my parents drive way. Here is some tech info for any other photogs out there who might be interested. I used two small sunpak flash units off camera. The one on Camera right was a little bit above head level pointed down with a shoot thru umbrella. The other flash was on camera left behind Trey about 5 ft and at about his waist level pointing back at him and up. The camera was set at ISO 400 and the shot was made at 1/10th of a second to allow the ambient light in the sky to show up a bit. It was shot at f5.6. The main light was set to 1/2 power and the kicker light was set to 1/8th power. In photoshop I just tweeked levels and curves a little bit. Other than that this is straight from the camera. Let me know what you think.

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Project 52…week 9

I started a personal project at the begining of the year. The idea was to do one “self portrait” per week for 52 weeks. My hope was that I would push my creative juices. Also my wife and kids were getting tired of me pointing the camera at them .  The year started off good but I quickly got behind and now here we are half way through the year and I’m only on week 9. I’ve had several people drop me emails asking me for my next installment. So to all those faithful viewers I make a vow….well, atleast a heartfelt promise…errr, it’s my sincere goal. To get back on track and to catch up with this project. With that in mind let me present….”Old McDonald”…this image was shot at 3pm in my back yard using off camera flash. I then tweaked it in photoshop, added a texture layer, used a sepia action and added an old border. I had a blast creating this one and have several more good ideas for the next few weeks. So I hope you enjoy this and please let me know what you think.

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Ashley’s Quinceanera Photo’s

I had the privilege to do a shoot for Ashley yesterday. Next week is her 15th Birthday. In the spanish culture the 15th birthday for a girl is like a sweet sixteen. Ashley and all her best girlfiends got all fixed up and we met up at memorial Park in Lebanon, In. We had a blast. We got a bunch of fun shots with her and her friends, her sisters, and her nephews (although the youngest did not want to be dressed up). We then went down town Lebanon and got some shots in one of the alley’s.  Ashley, thanks for letting me help create some memories for you. I hope you love you images. Here are a few of the shots that we got.

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Slip and Slide and summer memories!!!

The boys pulled out their “Slip and Slide” yesterday and of course being the Dad that I am I ran outside to grab some pics. I absolutely love summer time with my family. There is nothing better than spending time with Julie and the boys during the summer. I decided a long time ago that I’m going to take advantage of every moment I can to make memories with my boys. Their only going to be young for a very short time. I want to fill their memory banks with incredible memories of being with their family. So, if you find a lot of posts on the blog that show my kids it’s because my family is what I’m most passionate about. The reason you don’t see a lot of pics of Julie on the blog is because she hates it when I take her picture. Ha!  I’ll sneak some shots of her this summer and when I do I’ll post those too.  Here are a few pics of the boys.