We’ll be flying out to visit the motherland in a few weeks! I can’t wait to take some (hopefully) nice shots of the Great Wall, Forbidden City and Olympic village. Kay and I will be flying out with a friend of ours who’s been to China multiple times already. Our itinerary so far is to [...]
Yearly Archives: 2009
baby logan photos
My new nephew is growing up so fast! Baby Logan is now 5 months old… and the most well behaved baby in the world. Baby sat through the afternoon w/o crying or any fuss.. what more could you ask for? He’s a champ!
Au naturale lighting
We found the perfect little grassy corner to practice shooting under natural light. It was a small landscaped grassy section alongside a small hill that blocked out the setting sun. The ideal condition for natural light shooting outdoors is always under a shade (or at best an overcast gray day… the clouds become a huge [...]
Natural light photosPosted in: Photography, Portraits Tags: natural light, Nikon 50mm f1.8 photos, Nikon D700 photos 5 Comments
Yummy night time bokeh
Depth of Field creates the blurry background that you will often see in photos. Bokeh is the quality of that creamy blurry background. My favorite bokeh shots are not the daytime ones… they’re the nighttime shots. Here’s a shot of neighborhood house lights a block away from our house. I thought it’d be fun to [...]
Summer is fading… Fall is here
It’s strange how we see things differently now that we’ve jumped into this photography hobby of ours. Everywhere we go, everything we do, we try to find the photographic element in it. Every magazine.. we’re looking at the poses. Every tv commercial we’re looking at creative effects… and just last week, every street corner is [...]
Posted in: Photography, Portraits Tags: edge light, Nikon DSLR, Photography, radio popper, sunlight 5 Comments
DIY mod: Radio Popper PX splitter
First off, a little back story just in case you’ve never heard of Radio Poppers. They are wireless triggers for your speedlights. I started using Radio Poppers a few months ago for outdoor shoots. Why use a radio trigger over the already wireless Nikon CLS system? Well… the Nikon CLS system is infrared based (like [...]
DIY: Radio Popper PX Splitter ModPosted in: Gear, Photography Tags: diy, radio popper, split, strobist, wireless triggers 12 Comments
Portland portraits
I went to visit my Sister and her family in Portland a few weeks ago. It was my first time in Portland, and wow it is beautiful up there. The blanket of green is such a refreshing contrast from the muddy brown hue of Southern California. While I was there, my nephew Eric mentioned he [...]
Posted in: Family, Photography, Portraits Tags: columbia river gorge photos, natural light 3 Comments
Chozen One Productions photo shoot
Quick recap: I helped photograph my sister’s dancers and promoters so she could use them for her awesome flyers. We were working on a tight schedule so I wish I could have had more time to get some of the girls comfortable with being in front of the camera but the girls were great sports [...]
Posted in: Photography, Portraits Tags: asian girls, headshots, Nikon, Photography, portraits, pretty girls 6 Comments
test shots: clamshell lighting setup
We took a few more pics using the clam-shell lighting setup. I wanted to see the difference with and without the bottom reflector or light. I forgot to take a BTS shot, but if you want to visualize how it was set up… you can put your fingers and thumb together as if you were [...]
Posted in: Gear, Photography, Portraits, Tyger's Posts Tags: clam-shell lighting, edge lighting, portrait, softbox 6 Comments
Tommy and Chau wedding pics
Yay, I finally got to posting my favorite pictures from the wedding of these two high school sweethearts! I wish them both a wildly romantic and happy future and…it’s about time! =p Enjoy these pics Babes captured while I was busy mingling…which translates to, stuffing my face. I had a partner in crime and cuisine [...]
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