How To Photo

Location - a bathroom

Utilize card house building skills

Available light on subjects

Light using 3 off camera flashes with remote triggers.

Diffuse light through semi opaque foam.

Narrow depth of field requires 3 focus points and exposures.

Roll-on in focus

Peppermint and Thieves Hand Sanitizer in focus

Toothpaste in focus

Using layering in photoshop, compose

Image is part of a fathers day catalog, direction, masculine, cool tones, bold lines.

Between Locations

I don't have luck with airports. Being Friday 13th can't help.

I found I was booked on the right day but wrong month. So instead of cutting it close I'm spending a very fuzzy sleep deprived day in Salt Lake City International 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Then 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. in Phoenix International.

I took some pictures.

Airports are the only buildings that are never, ever, made to look retro. The best they can muster is "Mid - range contemporary Mall" - is that an architectural style? Phoenix is a fusion of 80's mall meets military bunker.

This was the flight I was supposed to be in - really.

Lavender Fairies

Magic is what once explained what we could not understand.

Why does frost appear on windows only on winter mornings? Magic.

We know so much now about ice crystals and other natural phenomenon. No room for magic.

But there is still some, an echo of magic.

Why do girls love horses? Magic.

Why are little girls inexorably drawn to fairies? Why do we look on, feeling a strange wistfulness stripped of our cynicism?

Magic.

Cerimony

I resist wedding shoots, the high drama factor, the you can't re-shoot factor and the fact that my partner, when ever weddings come up will point out how unhappy she is with our wedding photographer - 17 years later.

But, I will relent on occasion. This was one such occasion. I knew the bride, not well, but liked very much what I knew. When she asked if I would take pictures, she said - it would be very low key.

The "Low Key", + subject & location drew me in.

If I am happy with my images, I am happy I accepted an assignment.

I am happy.