Shannon’s family photos
They wanted something a little more dramatic and interesting for their family photos so I shot with a bright AC slave flash hanging from the top corner of the white backdrop and a Pentax AF400FTZ mounted on my Canon 30d. In post processing I pushed the exposure level even further and increased the brightness in many of the shots to create the overly lit feeling in the shots.
I prefer to shoot photos that show the personality of the subject, rather than the simple, stiff, posed photo that many family shoots produce. I believe that these photos allow each person to show their personality while still maintaining a posed composition that makes sense for their family.
Fair Sarah Fairy
As a gift to a dear friend of ours I created this image from a simple photo that I shot of her daughter in our backyard.
I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania some time of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, II, i, 249