Chicago's beach and Tommy Mac

I shot this a while back and never had the chance to put it up. This was shot months ago when it was just getting cold and it yet snowed. Lighting two subjects, Tommy and the water at the same time with one 580EX II flash proved to be quite difficult. No genius idea popped up when I started to shoot, so I kept shooting and thinking till it came to me and it finally did! It came to me as I was going through the photos. "over expose" "underexpose" blah blah blah. then tada! Photoshop can save this shoot. Make two exposure one to light up the model just right and another one for the water and edit them together for equally lit model and water. Saving up for two more flashes for slaves. Having two more flashes that night would of been a dream come true. But we must use what we have and still rock it out.


Hire him! he is great to work with!




Link to his portfolio here.

Thoughts of today.

I find it beautiful when I see a happy couple, I have two wedding to shoot in October and one of them I went to school with and the second is a very fun and great person to have conversations with. I got a chance to photography my friend at Navy Pier about weekend ago and seeing him with the love of his life is quite refreshing. Cheers to all the happy couples. Here are a few shots from the frigid day.


tada! my friends from St. Louis. say Hi to Kevin and Krystal.


They both rocked the shades! I want a pair now :P


brushing hair off her hair face or pre-choke.


This is cute, they told me they have been bring this guy with them everwhere they went. So there he is at Navy Pier in Chicago.


My friend Che also tagged along and made it in this picture.

That is all for this post, drop by again and keep on blogging.

Redoing my blog!

width is 900...have to remind myself.