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more SOL inspirationJune 23

I was looking over my wife’s shoulder as she was working on a recent wedding… She is just on fire with some of her attempts with flashflavor recently. Specifically, I was noticing that she is doing a brilliant job of fooling the eye.

I wrote about her attempts to lead the eye out of believing that there is any flash involved in this past FF article. Here, she is at it again with a pretty nice portrait attempt.

Sol used a full power flash with a 1/4 CTO warming gel. Slave triggered by pocket wizard. 1/200 f22 at ISO 100. She was able to under expose the sky by bringing the flash very close to the subject (5 feet or less). The sunburst almost tricks the eye to believe that there isnt any strobe used at all… Well, most pros will know what is going on but to the common observer, its magic

Same portrait session, another creative usage of light. I really like the lines and dynamic use of light here. Definitely a different way to take a groom’s portrait!

1/200 f10 ISO 100 full power flash 1/4 CTO Warming Gel.

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Neil Cowley on photoshop flavor & flashflavorJune 19

Neil Cowley is a photoshop guru and an off camera lighting wizard. I would like to send congrats out to Neil and Liesel. They are leaving NY and headed for their new move over to Charlotte. If you are a NC photographer, please be sure to
connect Neil to your social network. He has made a serious contribution to the photographer society. Neil has taught workshops throughout the US on seeing the light. He is currently shooting weddings, traveling, and teaching all at the same time.

I checked out Neil’s profile on the WPJA just to revisit some of his award winning stuff. Neil was an influence to me during my first seasons working as a pro wedding photog. He has some seriously nice stuff… Check out a few of his WPJA winners. How are the prospects for 2008 coming?

 

Neil Writes:
Flash flavor + photoshop flava

Flash flavor starts with your shaping of the subject using your photo flashes - but need not end there!

Here’s the original image, and you can see it’s flaws from my overly quick setup….

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back to playa del carmenJune 13

I was Stateside for 2 weddings and have returned to Mexico for a few more weeks to close out the season here. We are taking 3 weeks off in July and even more time off in August.

After spending time away from the wife, its good to see some of Sol Tamargo. Its especially nice to turn around to see one of her killer images staring me in the face. I love this flashflavor image with the bride and groom walking, shutter drag, some kewl editing.

She was in bright sunlight and used our Pocket Wizards to transmit to a slave Nikon 2b-28 at 1/2 power.

Sol has some nice stuff on her blog. We are getting ready for a new blogsite design for www.delsolphotography.com, so look for way more and way BIGGER images coming soon. At this point, we are trying to recover from early 65 weddings so far this year. Production is pretty thick around here

Currently looking for hot submissions. If you have something sexy, please send it my way.

Cheers!
mateo

 

PS. I was informed that a local coordinator recently abused copyright and regarding some of our images and used them for their promotion for their upcoming season in the cur

atlanta pictage user group meeting thursdayJune 3

While I am in the US, I am giving a small chat about getting the flash off the camera at the local Pictage user group meeting (pug) at Java Vino tomorrow at 7pm in Atlanta GA. These meetings are set up by Pictage so that users can get together and network and talk about business. I’d love to invite you to join us!

Please come to visit if you can

The meeting is at: THURSDAY June 5th
7pm-9pm
at Java Vino in the room upstairs!
579 N. Highland Ave NE
Atlanta GA 30307

***UPDATE***

Thanks to Jen & Adam Linke for setting everything up. The PUG meeting was pretty successful. It seemed like there was 30 people there. I hope that everybody enjoyed my presentation and our crazy and fun approach to shooting wedding photography with the off camera flash. Hopefully, we can do it again.

Thanks to Mark Adams from LaCour for taking this photo!

Check out the Atlanta PUG website for more info!

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Pro on my shoulderMay 27

I’ve been doing a bit of jet setting lately and recently ended up in a beautiful outdoor Atlanta city setting for David & Laura’s wedding. The day prior to the wedding, Laura told me that she spoke on the phone to her future Father-in-law for the first time every! He had a ton of questions about ME and when I was shooting and where etc…. I knew from the beginning that David’s father was a photographer. I didnt have a problem with the father of the groom toting around a rig and shooting all night, if that is what he wanted to do. However, laura informed me that he was forbidden to pick up a camera until the reception

Wedding day, I meet Van White. Van tells me that his photography club in Virgina is anxiously waiting to see the photographs from his son’s wedding… Initially, its a bit of pressure when you start to shoot for a man and woman to be wed and one of the fathers is a pro, standing right next to you on just about every frame. Every now and then, asking questions and getting answers from me… Hopefully he was able to have fun and not drool over the 85 1.2 and the 50 1.2 that I was using He also had his eye on my Radio Poppers….

I just wanted to say THANK