Foodie

25Jun09

I had a few minutes to kill in the studio yesterday so I decided to try my hand at some still-life photography. I stole learned the basic lighting setup from Strobist, but I cheated a little. I didn’t use the DIY Macro Box. I used my medium softbox. The setup is pretty simple. Large soft [...]

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Tags: Daniel Williams, Food, Learning, lighting, photography, rochelle, Rochelle IL, rochelle illinois photography, Still-life photography, Strobist

Headshots

20Jun09

I haven’t had time to talk about this lately, but we will soon be offering a business headshots/modeling portfolio package. Details are soon to come. As many of you know, I believe heavily in photography education. One of the blogs that I follow is hosting a lesson every few weeks as part of their Bootcamp [...]

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Tags: Bobby Govea, Daniel Williams, Headshots, IL, lifeworks imaging, photography, rochelle

First engagement session of 2009

19Mar09

As I promised on my other blog, here’s a quick post about an engagement session I did with a couple the other day. Steph and I had booked this couple for a wedding a few months back and they decided they wanted the engagement session at that time too. We had actually planned to do [...]

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Tags: Daniel Williams, Engagement photography, Engagement Photos, lifeworks imaging, lighting, Location Photography, Portrait Photography, rochelle, Strobing, Strobist

Things I promise to never do

20Jan09

NOTE: Dear readers, just a quick warning, this may bore the heck out of the average reader. This post is more for advanced photographers. I promise to never use my crazy little setup for a portrait if you use my services. I really wish I would have taken a photo of the setup to show [...]

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Get the rust out

11Jan09

I posted all the photos last night from the Hubs basketball game on my Flickr site. Unfortunately you probably can’t see them unless you’re my friend on Flickr. Last night’s shoot was primarily a ‘get the rust out’ shoot. I’ve been in a ‘down’ shooting time lately. A combination of not much too shoot along [...]

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Tags: Daniel Williams, Hubs basketball, lifeworks imaging, photography, photojournalism, Rochelle Township High School, RTHS, sports photography

Pardon this interruption

10Jan09

I wanted to throw a few up from the basketball game tonight. It took me all winter long for me to finally get to a basketball game, but I’m glad I did. It always takes me a few games to really get the hang of it, but I think I really found the money spot. [...]

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Tags: basketball, lifeworks imaging, photojournalism, prep sports, rochelle, Rochelle Hubs, Rochelle Township High School, RTHS

Wrestling season

04Dec08

I got back to shooting sports last night. Had a good time shooting wrestling. I’ve never covered an entire season of wrestling so far. I shot a few times at the News-Gazette and requested to shoot the state meet, but that’s about it. I actually like shooting wrestling a lot.  Lots of emotion and anguished [...]

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Tags: Hubs wrestling, lighting, Navarro, Rochelle Township High School, RTHS, Sports, wrestling

Not sure what to expect

07Nov08

This past weekend, I had the joy of shooting my first maternity photos for one of my friends. I’ll admit, I was a little nervous about shooting maternity photos as I had never done any and I don’t have a full studio to bring people into to make them feel comfortable. Instead, I opted to [...]

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Tags: expecting mother, IL, lifeworks imaging, lighting, maternity photography, Portrait, rochelle

Lighting Metal Pt. 1

14Oct08

I’m back to learning lighting a little bit. I’m mostly learning about lighting metal in the chapter that I’m in now. Most photographer’s cringe at the thought, but as the book points out, you really shouldn’t. Metal is one of the few items that never strays from the rules. It either gives off direct reflection [...]

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Tags: family of angles, Learning, lifeworks imaging, Light-Science and Magic, lighting, Lighting metal, metal, rochelle, RTHS, SB-24, studio

My new family (of angles)

11Sep08

Today I’m learning about the family of angles from Light-Science and Magic. If you’ve stumbled upon this site for whatever reason, you might already be familiar with this lighting concept, but if not, I hope I can explain it well enough for you to understand. I’m going to assume people know a little bit about [...]

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Tags: copy lighting, copy work, Family of Angles photography, lifeworks imaging, Light-Science and Magic, lighting