What a Weekend!Can you believe the weather we had this weekend, it was warmer in Chicago than it was in Southern California!? It was my birthday on Sunday and I can not recall ever being able to enjoy the outdoors as much on February 19th as we did this year! 70 degrees on Sunday, who woulda thunk it? Since nobody expected this to happen, we had a slow weekend professionally and we were able to get out there and finally shoot our own family photos. My wife is always saying "you take awesome pictures of everyone else's family, why not ours?" so we carved out time Saturday and Sunday to shoot ours. We have so much fun doing what I call "professional selfies" in our home, and this was the first time moved the operation outside. It also gave me a chance to experiment with a new setup for lighting photos and I am very pleased with how it turned out. Give me call if you love these, and let's get your family photos done, too! Enjoy! And to those paying attention, yes I did get a haircut Sunday morning so I look a little "rougher" in the Saturday photos :)
As mentioned earlier, we went out without the dog on Saturday and took some photos at Moraine Hills State Park, a great place for family photos with lots of good little spots with views. I was practicing my setups, and this one shows it off nicely. We used a tripod and the wi-fi feature on my camera to connect with the Nikon phone app that allows you to control the camera with your phone. It takes some practice, but is great fun. The lighting setup here is three, two speedlights and the sun. The sun is over our left shoulders (right shoulders looking at the pic) and high in the sky acting as our hairlight providing that halo around the top of our heads, something often done in studio to help separate your subject from the background. Then the main light is about two feet off camera to the left on the photo (our right while standing there) and a fill light is about three feet to the right of the camera, a little further back so as to still give those facial defining shadows, while properly exposing everything including the background and keeping those blue skies blue.
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