Jeremey's Weblog

Our Boys

Our boys keep getting bigger! Surprising, I know. I had the studio gear set up and we threw them in there and took some pictures... love these!

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Sara - Senior Portraits

I had a fun senior shoot recently, where I got to play with some new toys. Specifically, portable power for my big strobes and huge Alien Bees parabolic umbrellas. Being able to use the strobes outside is awesome! Talk about controlling light. Anyway, a few pictures, out of many I loved:

10th Anniversary!

No, not of this blog, though it will be getting there in not too many years. :)

My wife and I celebrated 10 years of marriage last week! We went to Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island in Michigan and had a fantastic time. No motor vehicles are allowed on the island (except emergency vehicles), so everything is got to by foot, horse, or bike. We loved it.

I took a bunch of picture (you're shocked), and put together a collection of black and whites that capture Mackinac for me. Here they are:

If you're ever looking for advice on Mackinac dining, lodging, etc., hit me up on Twitter or email. I can't recommend it enough as a "change of pace" vacation. We went sans kids, too, which helped.

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Hello, 2009

I love the holidays, but I'm always a little relieved when they're over, too. 2009 should be a very interesting year, I'm looking forward to it!

To welcome 2009, here's a shot of Gabriel at the park on New Year's Day:

Definitely click through and then click the "Better Large" link. It is much better large.

50mm f/1.4

I totally love this... I shot this image at ISO 100 at 1/60th of a second! In not all that much natural light, indoors! f/1.4 is a whole new world of lots of light and shallow depth of field (I have an f/2.8 lens, but it has to be 6 ft from the subject, and I have the f/1.8 50mm, but its focusing is too unreliable for regular use).

Fun! Looking forward to sticking this thing on a 5D Mark II sometime soon!

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The Christmas Picture!

I forgot to post it! Here comes the cuteness...

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Christmas Cards!

Our Christmas cards from Apple arrived, very cool! (designed in iPhoto using a template... I didn't color correct or anything on these pics of the cards, apologies)

Americano

Just gotta say... I love a good americano. I basically don't brew drip coffee anymore, if I want a cup of black coffee (which I do, frequently), I make an americano. A proper americano is made w/ hot water in your cup and then you pull your shot onto the water. That's it. It is NOT a shot pulled for a really long time; that will massively overextract the coffee. Just a normal shot as if for a latte, pulled into a cup of hot water (not too much water).

P.S. you do want to pull the shot after you put the water in the cup... that way you get all that delicious crema on top. YUM.

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Poladroid: Fully Awesome

Go check out Poladroid! It's so cool... it takes time developing an image that you drag onto it into a polaroid... and you can save it mid-development for different effects. Examples (same image, first mid-development, second post-development):

LOVE.

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Engaged

I shot most of yesterday with a Lastolite TriGrip diffuser, or in actual shade... but this one was in the open sun, and I love how it works with the toned B&W (tritone in PS CS3).

Definitely worth viewing large, on black to really appreciate the tones.

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