Green Monster
Sometimes Connor gets tired of having his picture taken and just stares at me looking very annoyed. That is when his toy takes his place and I get to shoot something that doesn’t constantly move. Key light is through an umbrella and the blue edge light is bare.
Back Porch
Connor is walking down our back steps in to the back yard. He is lit with two lights. One is through an umbrella to my right. The second is bare and at the bottom of the steps, pointing up at him. Nice hat!
Connor’s New Bed
“Surely there aren’t any monsters under my new bed!“
Connor is almost two and a half and he has a new brother on the way. I figured that it was about time to move him out of the crib and into a bed. I found some great plans and went to work. Modified slightly because I wanted a railing. It’s actually a little snug for a modern crib mattress, but it still works. I would make a few minor adjustments if I were to build it again.
All shots were taken with two off-camera flashes. I have lighting descriptions on various flickr pages: Naked Furniture, Monsters, Morning Light, B/W, Froggies.
Reading To Connor
I make periodic self portraits with Connor and myself. I took this one partly to test out my new second speedlight. I have the main one pointed through an umbrella in front of us and the second one is on the floor behind me. You can see a little bit of blue light on my shoulder from that one. I’m also wearing my new Star Wars apron – taking a break from cooking.
Seattle Zombie Walk 2011
The 2011 Seattle Zombie Walk has come and gone with another world record.
It’s now the end of October and this weekend’s ZomBcon has reminded me that I never posted about this event from July!
The record was successfully broken with 4,522 registered zombies.
Here’s a small collection of some of my favorite shots.
I shot the zombies using 50mm and 24mm lenses in natural light. Click on any of them to zoom into the large size.
If you spot yourself, send me your info so I can get you a larger copy.
Zombie walks on Wikipedia.
Connor at the Log
Connor climbs onto our log table on a sunny day. He’s lit with a softbox to the right.
Connor and the Fence
Connor takes a moment out of his day to pose in front of the newly completed picket fence. He is lit with a softbox on camera right with the sun as a backlight. The fence is one of the three projects that I finished this year. The other two are a sandbox and a bed. I’ll show some pictures of those soon.
Q13 Anchor Headshots
Some of the news anchors at Q13 recently asked me to shoot some new headshots for social media sites.
Snack
Connor enjoys a Cheerio and milk break while we take a walking tour of the University of Washington campus. We’re currently at Red Square and in the background is Suzzallo Library.
Sleeping
Connor took a nap on the couch today and I couldn’t help getting a shot of him in the sunbeam from the front door. I had my 20″ softbox ready so I added it behind him as a backlight. My favorite shot ended up being this one that I was going to use to document the lighting set-up. I ended up replacing the background with another shot of a blue backdrop. Loving the single sock on the ottoman…
Greenbird!
Emerald City ComiCon 2011
Last weekend was the ninth Emerald City ComiCon and I was there to photograph the atmosphere. Click on any of the images to see large sizes.
Having been a huge Star Trek: The Next Generation fan it was amazing to meet William Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes. I was able to tag along with my station’s press crew and get a little more access to a few stars. Also below is is Tron, Bruce Boxleitner.
The Blue Period
Above: Bare strobe on floor pointed up at Connor. Color temperature pushed cool and then slightly desaturated.
Below: Full CTO on strobe at eye level. Shutter speed set at 1/6th second to give me time for a quick pan move while shooting. Flash freezes Connor while the deep blue sky washes over him.
Vashon
We finally took Connor to his Nana’s house on Vashon Island recently. It was both his first time on a ferry and an island. I managed to take over three hundred pictures and then deemed over one hundred good enough to be processed. All of the pictures in this post were either taken with my 50mm 2.0 or 24mm 3.5. Click on any of the smaller pictures to see them full size.
Here’s Connor on a Washington State ferry. He has a great time getting help walking up the aisles on the passenger deck by Leah. Below he’s enjoying the benches up front with the great views and hanging out by the emergency life rafts. There was a really good photographer on board that took a great family portrait of us.
Valerie made a great shrimp po’ boy lunch for us. Connor enjoyed the fireplace and crawling on the new floors.
Connor hangs out on the dock and the beach. I really love that wooden sculpture that someone built years ago.
Petting Zoo
We recently took Connor to a petting zoo for the first time. I have a bunch of shots of him looking at/touching the animals, but I thought that these would look more interesting here. That is Leah and Connor in the way out of focus background below.
Everett Marina
These shots are from the guest moorage dock at the Everett Marina. Everything here was shot with the 50mm 2.0. I really loved the structure over the dock. It provided some great perception of depth when shooting from end to the other.
Magnum
Let’s begin with the shot above. Connor is giving us his best attempt at “Magnum”. I think he’ll have “Blue Steel” down in the next couple of months. These shots are from Howarth Park in Everett. We were shooting with a very bright backlight coming from the high sun. I used my gold reflector to get some of that light onto his face. I’m also a big fan of the Monkey Butt shot down below.
Magnuson Park
These four shots are from a trip that Connor and I took to Seattle’s Magnuson Park by ourselves. We were hanging out while Leah and her mom were attending an event in another part of the park. He had just started crawling at the time and it was hard to keep him in one place to get some shots. Everything was shot with the Pentax 50mm 2.0. I really love the black and white shot from behind. He’s watching some kids playing basketball.
Seattle Zombie Walk Part 4 – Slideshow
Here’s my final post on this year’s Red, White and Dead Zombie walk in Seattle. I just put together a big photo slide-show over at Flickr to use here on my blog. Be sure to hit the full screen button on the lower right! I had a great time shooting this year and I’m looking forward to being there again next year. Every shot was taken with a Pentax 50mm 2.o lens with the Pentax K10D.
Backyard
These shots are from a shoot in the backyard on June 14, 2010. Connor had a great time pulling up weeds and playing with a nice stick that he found. He also really liked sitting in my reclining lawn chair.
Seattle Zombie Walk 2010 – Part 3
Here’s Frank the Bunny and his girlfriend from the Red, White and Dead Zombie Walk last week in Seattle.
Seattle Zombie Walk 2010 – Part 2
Here’s another image from my time at this year’s zombie walk in Seattle. Don’t forget to check out the video that I made for the event and showed to all of the zombies that stayed for the movie. It’s a behind the scenes featurette for The Book of Zombie.
Seattle Zombie Walk 2010 – Part 1
The Red, White and Dead Zombie Walk was another huge success. Seattle once again set the world record and reclaimed the title from the British! Both my wife and ten month old son participated in the walk while I tried to capture as many zombies as possible with my camera.
Wilderness
Connor and I made a trip into the deep wilderness for this photo shoot. He really liked trying to eat the grass. It turns out that it’s hard to shoot and keep him from eating things than I thought. Especially when shooting with a 135mm from twenty feet away.
OK, I lied. We’re just in the back yard.
