All we need is one light

To crib from Nas. Sometimes all you need is 1 light.

I'll admit, personally I like to mostly shoot ambient light. I use the Canon 5D and 50mm f-1.4 (hopefully soon to upgrade to the 1.2L) to get a lot of light.

Sometimes it's good to go against your own style to create new stuff and to grow creatively.

The picture at left - f-5 / 1/30 / 42mm / ISO100.

I just used a single speed light (canon 430EX) to camera right to provide some modeling and shadow.

The results speak for themselves.

Try stuff that's a little different from your norm and you might even surprise yourself.

CPPA Print Competition

The August Meeting of CPPA will feature a print competition.

I'll have a few surprises there for everyone =)

My first column

Hey y'all

So this is my first foray into the blogosphere. I'm using this blog to talk about Photography and Image Processing.

My first column is for the Chicagoland Professional Photographer's Association and be found here

I'll also be answering questions from that column in this blog and any other retouching / photography types of stuff.

Hope to hear from you!