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Adam and Laura E-Session

January 7, 2010

After I shot Adam and Laura’s proposal they told me they were interested in doing an engagement session during thanksgiving break. I was very happy to oblige! :-)

He and Laura had a ton of great ideas for photo locations, so I drove out to Marengo / Belvidere and worked my magic for a few hours. Luckily the weather improved from a cloudy and rainy Thanksgiving week to sunny and mild during the weekend. It started to get cold during magic hour, but Adam and Laura were troopers — and we got to take most of the photos we had planned out. Thanks guys!

Tags: Adam Borhart, Laura Gibbons
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Scholarship Studio

December 15, 2009

I finally got around to using Johnny’s full studio setup last month when Sindy asked me to take her portrait for some Philly scholarship she won. Here it is, I couldn’t get my speedlite to work as a gridded hairlight and trigger the AB800s, so I was stuck with just the two AB monoblocs for key and fill. I got my standard yearbook photo shot, and we took some play ones afterward.

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Tags: Sindy Wang
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Volleyball IOTW Portraits Take Three

October 15, 2009

The U of I Volleyball team is awesome, so the DI sports staff chose to feature players Ashley Edinger and Johannah Bangert as Illini of the Week this week. I got to redeem myself from the speedlite fail debacle of last week, and I stepped it up with two AB800s with umbrellas, PW plus IIs, a vagabond II, and my 580exII. Working under a time constraint sucks, but studio shots are fun stuff. Thanks to people who let me borrow their gear and my friend Trevor for helping me carry and setup all this gear.

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Images Copyright Dean Santarinala/The Daily Illini Oct. 13, 2009

Tags: Ashley Edinger, Johanna Bangert, Volleyball
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IOTW Take Two

October 8, 2009

This was my second time taking portraits of Kylie McCulley for Illini of the Week, and I came out with much better photos than last time (my first IOTW, which was full of basketball hoops) but unfortunately I was having some technical difficulties with my off camera speedlite not being triggered. So instead of spending 5 minutes setting up and 10-20 composing and taking shots, I spent 15-20 minutes frustrated with speedlites and 5 minutes actually shooting. I had more ideas but didn’t have time to implement them. Oh well. Live and learn.

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Tags: Kylie McCulley, Volleyball
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The H.A.M.M.E.R.

September 25, 2009

Sorry for the lack of updates. I’m going to start to catch up. A few weeks back I did a quick portrait of Tad Britt, a researcher from Memphis who was working on a device called the H.A.M.M.E.R. that collects geo-spatial data. He was very photogenic and super friendly to work with. :-)

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