Its Geographic Composition over at Jason D. Moore Photography and the theme was shadow. Not my most creative submission. I just blew the exposure and black sliders to max. 
The new site went live this week featuring some of my photography. I did all on the home page and the new banners through out the site.
It was a classic snow day here yesterday! We conquered the hill at the middle school later in the day!! Freezing rain all night so its a ICE DAY today! 5 day weekend for Michael!! Yes to all of you north of us, we got 2 inches of snow in the nations capital and the schools were closed.
Michael was out of school yesterday for a teacher work day. We went to the Spy Museum after we dropped Olivia at school. It was a good father and son day. As I am typing this, it is snowing and school is closed for today. I guess some snow action shots are in order!! See you tomorrow.
I had lunch to discuss some business dealings with the owner on Friday last week. I am going to be handling some print marketing materials & creating and maintaining a blog for the restaurant this year. Go Check it out. Link
Yesterday, I met up with long time pal, Judy Davis of Haochlander Davis Photography. They just recently moved the studio they work out of to the heart of Adams Morgan. We ate at a Mediterranean place called Astor. I should have composed a bit better, that fork is killing me, but I was hungry and I did not chimp. I just took the shot, (D200 with 50 1.4) and went to business on the lamb kabob. Judy knew I was looking for images for the blog, so she offered to scare the pigeons on the street corner. She is in the purple jacket and sunglasses. Hopefully with a little more prodding I can get Judy to start a blog and share her FANTASTIC photography and tips on how to be one of the best architectural photographers in the mid atlantic region.
For today's theme "Green" of Geographic Composition over at Jason D. Moore Photography. I am including the set up shot so you can see what I used to make the shot. I did some experimenting with the light and reflectors that I will share next week. Have a great weekend. Thanks for the nudge Jen.
We did a party for Olivia and her 20 closest friends at The Little Gym for her fifth celebration.
Its just that time of year when you have to pull out of the archives to have a daily post. When I was picking images for the 2008 blurb book, this image of Julia in the distance worked, I like the contrast of the LARGE yellow Sorry piece compared to her for scale.
I was inspired this week by Scott over at Weekly Photo Tips with his set up for a Twilight shot. I was going to try something similar, and might still, but I choose to use the technique of using rim lighting in this sports shot. I used a WL Ultra 600 in a Medium soft box for main front @ F8, and used 2 SB800's Gobo'd with cardboard in manual mode at 1/4 power for the rim lights on optical slave mode. The background was a Chroma Blue pop up. I extracted Michael from the blue with Filter-Extract in CS3 (not upgrading to CS4) used a Faux Dave Hill Look Technique with some tweaks to fit this image.(You can find the REAL Dave Hill here.) Little Lucis Art on the jersey and pants. I did throw a curve in there also as well as the Friday Night Lights are from Istockphoto. I am going to tweak the lights a bit, move my rim lights up a foot or so to get more effect when I shoot next. Also want to get some grease for under the eyes and maybe a little vasoline and dirt for grim.
I finished up the edits I did for Tracks Chicks yesterday and they are already up at the site. This is a screen grab from the site. If you check out the site, the shots I did have the high key white background.
This is a screen grab of a ad that Katten Law made using a shot of mine in Georgetown.
This is the last of my holiday portraits that I did this year. It was a pretty successful considering it was all word of mouth with the local families in Potomac, MD.
This is a Edit for Track Chicks that I did for internet hat sales. 
