Sarah got me a swanky background kit, and this was my first attempt at using it along with the new 580EXii flash. I also have white and chroma key green backdrops. I’m pretty happy with how this came out.
2 more solo shots of the kids:
Archive of posts tagged Dinah
Photo(s) 364: The home studio
Photo 359: Christmas Morning
At Grandma and Grandpa’s
Photo 330: Shockley Family 2011
There’s a few people missing who couldn’t make it, but this is pretty representitive of the tribe. (I lined up the shot then used an IR trigger to shoot it.)
Bonus, check out our microcosm of this group:
Photo 328: Happy Thanksgiving!
Clay turkey by Dinah
Photo 309: Happy 90th Birthday, Richard Ladner!
We celebrated my Grandpa’s 90th birthday today. He was surrounded by his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and other extended family. He’s been one of the most influential people in my life and it delights me beyond words that he gets to know my children as well.
Photo 293: Picture day
We were practicing our smile for school picture day. I wish I had better lighting on her face, but what the heck…
Thanks, Steve
Steve Jobs passed away today at age 56 after a battle with cancer. Here’s a few random thoughts…
On this day, I own a buttload of Apple gear: iPhone, iPod, iPad, MacBook Pro, Apple TV, Apple TV 2, Time Capsule, Mac Mini… I’m planning on getting an iPhone 4S as soon as possible.
I was (and am) a big open source dork at heart, but Apple’s simplicity and ease of use, especially the past 7 years really spoke to the pragmatic side of me. It turned me into a fan boy, I guess. It didn’t hurt that OS X is NeXTStep is UNIX… I touch OS X and Linux every day.
One of Dinah’s first words was iPod which she taught herself so she could ask me to turn on music for her.
In college, I loved using the NeXT computers we had. My first class in college used scheme on the NeXT’s. The NeXT is one of the first places I played Doom. I took calculus using Mathematica on the Mac in college.
Steve also touched my kids’ lives via Pixar. (Okay, my life too, I saw Toy Story in the theater first run, long before I had kids.) Also through their first computer, a Mac Mini.
There were too other public figures who’s lives and deaths touched me the way Steve’s passing is touching me today: Jim Henson and Fred Rodgers.
