Tag: macro

Apple Cider With A Cinnamon Stick Straw

If you can’t tell, fall is one of my favorite seasons. I love all of the colors and the crisp air. I particularly love being able to come in from the chilly fall air and cuddle up with a nice hot cup of apple cider. When I was little my

Firework Sugar Cookies

I realize it isn’t quite the 4th yet, but I wasn’t sure when I’d get the time to do this so I decided to just go ahead and post. This year I won’t be able to make it home to celebrate with my family so I wanted to do something

Advanced Color Portrait Assignment #5–Alien Bee (On Location)

Yesterday one of my former co-workers, Jamie Pickett was very generous with her time and posed for my newest Advanced Color Imaging assignment. This assignment’s goal was to use the photographic lighting equipment called Alien Bees. It was rather open ended aside from the lighting requirement. Spring is bursting into

A day with blueberries

I went shopping for prop supplies this weekend and picked up some really nice porcelain measuring cups with blue floral details along with some new linens. I thought they would look nice in a set about blueberry muffins and blueberries. Here are a few images from the shoot. I used

Winter Blues and Antique Blues

Hello all- I’ve been trying to practice using color to bring out small objects particularly in jewelry.  January has always been a month that reminded me of blues and whites so I decided to find some of my favorite unique jewelry that showcased blues and photograph them in a way

POM Wonderful

So it seems as though I didn’t think 5 hours of photographing to create my outdoor/indoor assignment was enough for one day. When I got back home I wanted to take some pictures and make use of the 6 pomegranates I suddenly needed to eat. I thought it would be

Casey Caught a Wild Rat Snake

My lovely neighbor and even lovelier friend Tara Schlotzhauer, came a knocking at my backdoor late this evening. Her boyfriend and avid snake lover Casey Blystone had captured a wild rat snake at Pertile Springs here in Warrensburg and they were about to release it. She thought it was a

Editorial Photography-Assignment 2: Jewelry

I decided to try my hand at photographing jewelry for my most recent editorial assignment. I used my 105mm 2.8 Nikon macro lens paired with alien bees, an EZ cube lighting kit, and oodles of trial and errors to produce the following of what I consider to be the 21

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