Author - fishees

Saturday was, by all accounts, the best car shoot of my life. True, it was also the first car shoot containing all of the elements of a commercial production – beautiful rides, a beautiful model, a nice location, a makeup artist, assistants (the car owners), and lots of lighting.

Three strobes were used – two Bowens Gemini 500R lights on a small TravelPak and a Canon 580EX II on a stand, used as a kicker. The Geminis were triggered via a Pulsar radio  stacked atop a PocketWizard MiniTT1 for the 580. A softbox was fixed on the main light, with a reflective brolly attached the secondary.

Katie was a dream – so professional, laid back, and friendly. She was one of the guys, talking cars yet all the time being prepared for the next shot.

View more photos from the shoot, also check out Katie’s ModelMayhem profile, and like Fishees Photo Co on Facebook and Twitter.

The tear-down of the old All Children’s Hospital facility is fascinating, if a little bittersweet. Many babies were born within those walls that now were crumbling apart and being hauled away.

January 25, 2012

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March 1, 2012

I spent a great Saturday at Clearwater Beach and was very productive – this shot was taken from the eighth floor of a hotel pool deck overlooking the boardwalk and Pier 60. I used an ultra wide-angle Canon 10-22mm EF-S lens at f/11, then tonemapped a single RAW exposure at ±4 EV in Photomatix. This is my typical strategy when shooting handheld.