Trib Nation – Life Lessons: Photographing Chicago

Jason, Lena, and I took a class with two Chicago Tribune photographers. It was a good walking tour of downtown near our office, but more valuable was the quick photo review the photographers did after the walk. Having professionals look and comment was very cool and having a large group of people taking shots in …

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Photo(s) 364: The home studio

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:

Photo 349: The US Capitol (yet again)

Took another shot of the capitol now that I can do better night shots. I did a longer exposure to get building detail besides the highly illuminated dome. I had the camera on top of “tourist” binocular, I’ll need to bring a tripod next time.

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: