Holiday Portraits

These come from Logan, UT, where Hayley, my most willing and most important, free model donned the cliche Santa hat for a few pictures.

Colorado

Heidi's friends in Colorado were generous enough to allow me to take pictures of their beautiful daughter in their home. Mom's decorating made the pictures of Baby much easier!

Lost

I took this in Blackfoot, Idaho at an elementary school. That's me doing the dumpster diving, in case you didn't recognize my receding hairline.

I have a feeling I'm going to have to do a lot more shooting like this if I'm going to make it through the dark winter!

Happy Birthday, Buddy!

My Little Dude turned three yesterday. His little personality brings so much color to our lives.

My Beautiful Boy

Liam was my test subject for lighting at the Buhler shoot.

Hayley

My sister-in-law Hayley agreed to help me with my most recent quest of figuring out the mysteries of the Canon Speedlite. I'm getting closer, but still have some issues to figure out before I feel comfortable shooting with them.

Hayley was such a sport and did a great job.

Business and Pleasure

I found this ratty old house just South of our project in Malad, ID. It's the perfect kind of subject for HDR: lots of fine detail, large tonal ranges, and tons of color.

The Pepsi bottles are sitting exactly like I found them. In fact, it looked like sharp edges from the broken tops had been dulled by time.

I've take some heat on this one because of the bright highlights behind the bottle tops. Is it too distracting or does it pull the eye to the subject?

Comments appreciated.