Here comes the rain again

It's day two of a pretty epic storm in the North Atlanta area and the rain today is relentless.  As photographers sometimes we dread rainy days (sometimes not).   On one part shooting outside becomes either impossible or a chore.  You really don't want to get your thousands of dollars worth of equipment inundated with torrents of water, and also putting bags or protective gear on your equipment becomes difficult.  On the other hand not many subjects find a rainy day to be a wonderful time to shoot outside.

In short there's a lot of strikes against shooting outside on a rainy day. Of course there's always exceptions, and in this case it's my friend Holly, the most bad ass model in the world.

A Little car trouble

So I went to Atlanta to try shooting the 60D and my car was broken into.  Fortunately they only took my GPS, but you can imagine it placed a damper on shooting so the only image right now to put up is a iso3200 sample shot with the 60d and a 24 1.4L@ 1.4

Hopefully the day will end a little better tomorrow

Trying out a new 60D

Apreturent was kind enough to lend me a 60D to test out.  My other blog will have a hands-on review of the 60d, but this blog would be a great place to showcase some photos from Canon's newest consumer dslr.  Also my landlord Danna picked up a Canon G12 also and is letting me test it out, so some photos from the g12 will also be up.  How exciting!

Canon 60D with the 85 1.2L II

Here are some photos straight out of camera from the 60d today paired with a Canon 24 1.4L and a 85 1.2L II.  Tiffany and I decided to do some quick photos.

Canon 60D with 24 1.4L

 

 

Canon 60D with 24 1.4L

Using the New "Toy Camera" effect

More images soon (ones that aren't quick snapshots), I have several shoots planned the next few days.

Advance Portraiture Assignment 1 | Pet Portraits

The first assignment for our Advance Portraiture class at school was pet portraiture.  While at first I was very much interested in taking a picture of Copper, my amazingly awesome cat, I ended up having this cool opportunity to photograph a sugar glider.  My friend Maryn has the cutest little sugar glider named Stella Luna (after some popular children book about a bat), and Stella was the perfect little model.  We ended up shooting for about 45 minutes and Stella posed for some super adorable photos.  It was really a unique experience shooting something so small and so delicate.  Here are some photographs.  Read after the jump about what I was going for, how I lit these shots, and what equipment was used.