Hansen Photo Shoot

I did a shoot for some family friends the Hansen's. They had family in town for the holiday and wanted to get a few shots. The have a great home for taking pictures, a beautiful Alaskan log cabin. The only problem we ran into is that Jan thought that he wanted the house to be nice and cozy so he fired up the wood stove. As you can tell by the picture above we posed the family right in front of the stove. Needless to say it got a bit warm for the shoot. What you can't see is that I had stripped to my underoo's because it was so hot. OK, maybe I made that part up, but it was hot and the thought did cross my mind. Fortunately we were able to get some shots outside where it was close to -75 F. OK, maybe I am a compulsive lier, but it was around 0 F. The shots outside were a bit quicker because no one was wearing jackets and the photographer was cold. There are quite a few more pictures here.(Click it!) The outside setup shot is here (see if you can spot the ghost of Christmas past). The photographer even got a shot of himself courtesy of Becky. Need to stop talking in 3rd person, seriously annoying. ~Erik

Reed and Annie Photo Shoot

I did a mini photo shoot for my brother's family. They are here for a week or so and wanted to get a family photo. It had just snowed so the trees look very nice. The only problem was that it was really quite cold(0 F). They were adventurous and took off their jackets for a few shots. Living on the edge. Luckily the shot was taken in the front yard and they could run into the warm house. Here is the setup shot and a few more here and here. ~Erik

An ice fishing shack?

A buddy of mine wanted some family pictures, I am noticing a pattern here. Yeah, I spent a good part of this last weekend taking pictures. His wife wanted some indoor pictures but he wanted something a bit more outdoorsy. What is more outdoorsy than an ice fishing tent in Alaska. With young kids I thought that they were pretty brave to take them outside for the photo shoot. You can see that the pictures turned out pretty good. I think that it was about 15 or 20 degrees outside, not really warm but they did have a heater in the tent. Here is one of the setup shots along with this one. As always there are a few extra in the photo stream. I have to say this was one of the toughest lighting setups I have done. All in all it was a good shoot. ~Erik

Dude, was that a fart?

I did a photo shoot for the Law family this last weekend. Sometimes the kids can be a bit grumpy and it is hard to snap them out of it. One of my favorite tricks it to make farting sounds then blame it on the kids. You can see the picture of Trent above (in the yellow), not too happy. All it took was a little fart sound, assigning the blame to one of the kids and wallah, nothing but smiles. Don't believe me look at the shot below. The only side effect is that parents have to spend weeks undoing what it only took me minutes to do. A couple more shots here. Light setup, shoot through umbrella camera right, one strobe behind for rim light. ~Erik

Family Photo Shoot

Angela has been hassling me the last few months to get a family picture. If you follow the blog you will have seen that I have done photo shoots for quite a few different people. Unfortunately that hasn't left much desire to try and rope my own kids in for a formal family shoot. I will say this, the kids did very well for not having anyone taking the pictures. You can't see it but I was triggering the camera with a remote on a 2 second timer. Not really ideal but it seemed to work. Apparently the kids have had a camera stuck in their faces enough times that they know to smile and look at the camera. Also we are not above bribing. I know we shouldn't negotiate with terrorist, but candy goes a long way. There are a few more shots here. Lighting setup was a big softbox camera right with AB 400, shoot through umbrella camera left and rim light for the middle shot right behind Owen and Kaitlyn. Sorry for the lighting info. ~Erik