UltraSound!

We recently found out that we are adding another girl to our family! I thought about pulling off the photographer hat for a little while and just being a dad as we looked at the ultrasound. But I didn't. I took a bunch of pictures. I loved the large, empty, white walls of the room. Can't ask for a better bounce than that!

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Anatomy of a Celebrity Image - Michael Grecco shoots Will Farrell

It's always fascinating to see how someone else does it, especially when that someone is Michael Grecco. Check out a time-lapse from a shoot he did a few years ago with Will Farrell. It's interesting to me to see how the images were made that we see in film promos and whatnot. In the end, it's exactly what all of us photographers do every day. He has an on-axis fill (a large one) and his key light is camera left for the first set and camera right for the second.

A Lavender Deluge - Zac & Jordan - Young Living Lavender Farm

Every young girl grows up dreaming of that bright, sunny, sunshiny day that will be her wedding day. It will be 72 degrees, even if it's February in North Dakota. There will be azure blue sky with wispy, white clouds. The flowers will be blooming--all of them, even the ones that are not in season. The birds will all flit down and land on her shoulder as she ties the knot in a world of love and harmony.
Reality is much cooler--pun intended--especially when the bride and groom are as fun as Zac and Jordan.
There was no sun, the birds weren't flitting about, and the clouds were anything but white and wispy. What they DID get, in large amounts, was rain. Huge cloudbursts at totally irregular intervals.
That's the point where a wedding can become a huge bummer or a priceless memory. In this case, there was a plethora of wonderful people who made it the latter. Everyone pitched in to move the reception inside to escape the deluge but they decided to keep the ceremony outside in the gazebo. Generous guests donated about 6 umbrellas that were used to shuttle everyone back and forth in a mostly vain effort to stay dry. It was one of the most fun weddings I've done and I was grateful the rain abated for 10 minutes so we could run and shoot some killer formals in the lavender fields.

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Vegasography

A look back at our week in Las Vegas. There will be more to come from the shoots I did down there but these are the touristy-type shots.
I wanted to take some real Vegalicious photos while I'm down here in Vegas. So what fits the city of Las Vegas better than a lens that totally distorts everything in it's path? So I broke out the fisheye lens and took a drive down the Strip. I actually solved my issue with purchasing a fisheye just recently. I've always wanted one but could never really justify the cost for a specialty lens that I don't really need. So I bought a Lens Baby. You can get the Lens Baby and the fisheye optic for about half of a normal fisheye and have the option for all of their other interchangeable optics as well! I like the solution and thank you to Berkley at Pictureline for playing around with me long enough to verify it would work for me. (If you don't shop for your gear at Pictureline you really should.)

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