Kiah and Matt

 Home, Image, Portrait, Strobist
Nov 142010
 

Kiah is our part time dog who is full time bananas.  She lives with her other mother and our friend Matt when she is not gracing us with her presence.  Kiah gets more beautiful with age and she is crazy fun to have around the house now that she is through her “troubled” teens.  Matt brought Kiah by for a quick visit today and we got to take a couple of photos before Bucket the Cat ruined everything (Bucket and Kiah are still working things out).  Laura rescued Kiah from the Australian Outback where she had been abandoned at just a few weeks old.  After nursing her back to health, Laura moved heaven and earth to bring Kiah back to the states to live out her years chasing American squirrels.  Kiah rules and so does Matt.  *snap*


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GEAR: Fotodiox 20″x20″ SoftBox kit

 Gear, Home, Image, Strobist
Nov 132010
 

I love my new softbox.  A Fotodiox 20″ x 20″ SoftBox Kit arrived in the mail today.  It came with everything I needed to transform my Canon 580ex Speedlight into one big ole sweet light source.  The 20″x20″ Softbox is small enough to handle yet large enough for portraits of 1-3 people (possibly more, I will have to see).  One thing I really like about this kit is that the softbox is on a bracket and the speedlight is on its own bracket, making the whole system a lot more stable than attaching the softbox right to the speedlight.  The kit also comes with a remote transceiver and receiver to control your speedlight so you are good to go, right out of the box.  This new piece of gear in my arsenal is going to be great on location when our studio lights are just too much or power is too scarce.  There will be more to report once I put it through some paces in the next couple of days…  I have a couple of shoots lined up.  :-)

While experimenting with the softbox this evening, Bucket couldn’t resist and just had to jump in the middle of things.  What a Diva.  He just has to be the center of attention…  Here is a little Behind The Scenes animation..

Eventually we caved and just shot Bucket (as well as the photo of Laura and I in the next post).  The results are sweet and I look forward to working with this new tool some more.

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Halloween with The Loverings

 Culture / SubCulture, Home, Image, Uncategorized
Oct 312010
 

We love Halloween here at Casa Lovering.  This year, with the help of our neighbor kid, we resurrected our World Famous Haunted Porch and staffed it with puking pumpkins.  Blech!




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10.10.10 One Day On Earth w/ Bucket the Cat

 Canon 5D Mark II Video, Home, Video
Oct 102010
 

I signed up to participate in One Day On Earth this year and when October 10th finally came around, I found myself at our studio cleaning up a giant mess made by other people.  C’est la vie.  Laura and I recently took on the Studio Manager position and it is what needed to be done.  I could have made a film about cleaning up other people’s trash, which would have been meaningful and all, but decided instead to film our cat Bucket drinking some water from our dog Loki’s bowl.  So here is my masterpiece, a minute in the life of Bucket the Cat, for the One Day On Earth Project.  Enjoy.  :-)


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Bucket The Cat and Laura

 Home, Image, Life
Aug 302010
 

Our cat Bucket is a Maine Coon.  He is 5 months old and he is very big already, it’s his breed.  He is a constant source of entertainment for us and my new photo project.  Today I captured Bucket & Laura, my 2 loves, in some sort of a face off.  I imagine they are talking about me.  :-)  Beautiful.


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