Waverider Graduate!

I recently took photos of a graduating Waverider Celena Rasay, during the commencement ceremony for the class of 2009, and at the last second she also wanted me to shoot some photos @ her graduation party held this past friday, no problem. You've been to one party you've been to them all right? What was most interesting about this party is that it wasn't the usual, sit down and eat food party, the planned entertainment set this party apart from most.

Strobist info: The fire knife dance was shot using a single SB-600 placed on a low 3ft tall table slightly off center and to the right of the dancer, about 8ft from the subject, camera left. Strobe was fired using a SU-800, group A in manual mode, with 14mm zoom @ 1/8th power. These shots were not set up either. At the spur of the moment I decided to set up the strobe and see what I could get, I'm glad it worked out great! Lenses used: Nikon 18-200vr, 70-300vr, 10-24

Kisha

I had an opportunity to take some pictures of my wife (which doesn't come all that often) and I did. I have to give my wife the credit, she is the driving force behind what ever I want to do, she always supports what I do and I love her for that.

Strobist info: This first shot was taken using off camera flash, two nikon sb600 speedflash units, one light is on a tripod positioned behind her and to the right for the rim light on the hair, the other in front and up to the left. the SB600's were controlled with a SU-800 Speedlight Commander in manual mode. The good thing about the Su-800 is that you have the ability to shoot both wireless TTL & wireless manual and control your different groups or flash units from the commander unit itself. No more walking to the flash unit and making adjustment then walk back to your shooting position. This is an option you don't have when you go with wireless ebay flash triggers, and it makes setting up the shot a lot faster.

The second shot was shot using natual light coming through a glass slider adjacent to my subject. The second shot was I was just playing around, I dont normally use photoshop to process my digital shots, but decided to mess around a bit, and enhance some of the shadows. Nothing spectacular, but I like that shot for some reason, probably just becuase it's my wife and she really doesn't let me take pictures of her all that often. Destructive editing, eh.