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Yearly Archives: 2009

Emily’s Maternity Portraits

  Emily approached me about doing some maternity pics of next month’s expected delivery of baby Ellee. I was a little nervous about scheduling a maternity shoot this close to the delivery date, because both of my boys were born four and three weeks early, but everything went great. Here are some of the images…

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Christmas Card Time

Well, it is that year again. Time to receive and send out Christmas Cards. This year I thought that I would do something different. After searching through various online card templates, and “wasting” about 2 days, I finally decided to create my own template.  All of the templates were designed to mass consumer demand and…

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Columbus Hello!!!

We traveled to one of our son’s hockey tournament at the Nationwide Arena yesterday and in between games we drove down to Wendy’s Undergrad Alma Mater, OSU. Of course we had to drive down to the stadium since Slade had only seen it on TV. I wanted to replicate one of my wedding shots from…

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McCabe Family Portraits – Cincinnati OH

Yesterday, I visited with my old friends from my June Wedding of Steve and Cindy. Michael Shawn McCabe is a financial planner in Hamilton and I photographed his wonderful family and did some corporate shots in and around the area. Brian Trester provided some expert assistance and some second shooting. I used some varying techniques,…

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Nighttime Car Photography

I wanted to get outdoors this evening and tryout something that I’ve been contemplating for a while. I love the blurred look of the background, but wanted to achieve this look in camera rather than in post process. Here are my favorite 5 shots after taking nearly 50 images.

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Center Weighted focus and “Bokeh”

I am ofter using a center weighted focus on my camera to allow me to select the best focus point for my subjects. The result of a center weighted focus and a “fast” lens, allows for a great “bokeh”. Bokeh is a photography term borrowed from the Japanese meaning blur. Incidentally, you can somewhat surmise…

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