Sometime I want to shoot flowers with the new continuous soft box we just picked up. It’s quite fun shooting with those type of lights. This image is not one of the winners, but it could be a lot better I think.

• The light should really come into the flower more.
• The side light shows too much texture I think here.
• Also there is something at the bottom of the frame that catches attention and distracts.

I don’t know if any of you have seen “Flight of the Navigator” but for some reason this image reminds me of that show. The way the ship was shaped and how it changed shape like liquid at one point in the movie.

• Love the shape of this large drop.
• I think it would be nicer if the reflection in the drop was uniform.
• Love the focus, the drop is sharp but most everything else isn’t.

This is one of my favorite images from this shoot.

• I really like the soft detail in the flowers.
• I like the simple direction of the light.
• I’ve often wanted a different transition at the bottom edge of the frame. I could cut out those last two partials, but I don’t know.
• Like the angle it moves through the frame.

This was a fun image to make. The original came from three shots then stitched together like a panorama. So the result is very high resolution and can stand to be printed very large. I’m one of these silly people that must have the utmost in quality when making an image. I carry my tripod almost everywhere. I shoot at the best F-stop for sharpness, if I can make the image 1% better by doing something slightly different, then I will. So rather than cropping down and losing all those pixels, I shot tight and put them together to make more detail and clarity. If I was just going for the web I wouldn’t shoot this way. But I’m aiming at vary large prints. So the details are important to me.

• I love how you have to travel up and down this image with your eyes.
• The simple background and even the glass at the bottom.
• I would like some of the flowers to be in better shape.

This image kind of takes you into outer space or something like that, doesn’t it? It’s actually inside the custom track of a snowmobile we were taking images of for a calendar. Shot with the Nikon 14-24 2.8 lens, I love that lens by the way.

• I like the leading spiral of the spring and then the next one as it leads you down something. You don’t really know what it is.
• I think the wonderment is fun.
• I naturally should have moved the sled so you can’t see the studio in the sides.

Tonight at 6:00pm is the lighting class. It looks like it’s going to be a ton of fun! Light is the language of photography. Let’s learn to speak fluently and eloquently when we speak with light. The principles we learn about light and lighting aren’t only useful when setting up flashes or other lights, they are also very helpful when shooting with existing ambient light. Come join us tonight at 6:00pm

I’m looking forward to updating my macro lens. I’ve talked about this before on the blog. So when that happens I’ll post my feelings about it. I have lots of fun in the macro shooting world. Time seems to evaporate as I work on getting close and keeping focus. Adjusting composition is fun when a tiny movement is amplified a million times due to the magnification.

• I think the light from the other direction would make this image have more impact.
• I do like the sliver of light on the pink flower edge.
• Maybe a little back light would be fun.

It’s not even spring yet and I’m looking at pumpkins? This was on my Mom’s porch last fall. I liked the stem and the backdrop so I shot some images. I would never have done this if my camera didn’t happen to be around my neck.

• I like the coloring of this image.
• The depth of field is good, nice soft background, but not so soft you can’t tell what it is.
• There is almost a tension with the split of the colors…

This Thursday we’re having a lighting workshop/forum. 6:00pm @ Cory Adams Photography Studio. No admission fee, but please contact me to let me know you are coming. Tips will be accepted as well as cookies. We are going to look at light and ways to modify existing light as well as add our own. Light is Light I’ll take it in any form I can and make images with it. We will look at the Nikon speedlight system CLS, Studio Monolights, and Continuous Light sources. We’ll look at different ways you can fire the flashes and some DIY reflectors and diffusers. Light is the language of photography. Light is your tool. Let’s learn the qualities of light and what we can do to help make our images sing!

You may notice I use a black background regularly. It’s one of my favorite looks and it’s so easy to get. I have a big black sheet at my house, I don’t think it’s ever been on a bed. Speaking of bed sheets as backgrounds, they also work as light diffusers if you need them too, I’d use white though. Also if you are looking for something inexpensive for background choices, check out the shower curtain section of your local store. Shower curtains are cheap and trendy, oft times good things for backgrounds.

• I like the close arrangement of the flowers.
• I would like the light a little more in the front.
• Also front light would eliminate some of the extra texture.