1st Church Dress

Posted on: February 23rd, 2009 by Jeremy No Comments

McKinley was dressed up in her first church dress.  What a cutie!!

The lighting for this shot was setup using 2 strobes, a reflector and my 580 exII flash.  The first strobe was setup directly in front shot into an umbrella and bounced back.  The second strobe was setup behind McKinley on camera right.  It was placed above her and angled down, shot through the white umbrella.  The 580 exII was used to light up the background a little.  The background is a new fabric that I picked up this last weekend.   The reflector was used to give some fill light.

She is such a great model and loves to smile for the camera!!  Check out her big cheese in my first shot.

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Valentines Day Photo Shoot

Posted on: February 12th, 2009 by Jeremy No Comments

We needed a couple new pictures of the kids for a Valentines day card.  My wife is into digital scrapbooking and she needed a photo for her new card layout.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the shoot.  It was challenging because my son wanted to hold his little sister and was really mad when we kept taking her away.

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This setup was done on my white seamless background with two Profoto strobes.  One strobe was placed at a 45 degree angle to the kids, the other was used to blow out the background.  For fill flash I used a reflector on camera right.  The Profoto that was used to light the subjects was shot through a white umbrella.

The final product that we sent to our parents as a Valentines Day card was this.  Check out my wife’s scrapbooking page, she is doing a great job and loving her new hobby.  http://www.gettinscrappywithbritt.com

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Sunday morning pictures

Posted on: February 4th, 2009 by Jeremy No Comments

Just thought I would try some natural light pictures this past Sunday morning.  I really like the lighting that it produced.  We have a pretty good sized window in our living room which let in a lot of light plus there was snow on our lawn which gave even more reflected light.  The light was good and soft because there was no direct light coming through the window.  We live right next to the mountain and it is near impossible to get direct light in our front window.

Funny, it looks like we posed Mason on a few of the pictures, but he was actually just running around being his normal hyper self.

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New Studio

Posted on: January 30th, 2009 by Jeremy No Comments

I just put my new studio together and tried a couple test shots to see how it looks.  I think the pictures turned out pretty good for being my first attemp with my new lights and white seamless background.

These pictures were taken with 1 strobe shot with reflecting back into an umbrella on camera left, then I had a reflector placed on camera right for fill flash.  I used a second strobe to blow out the background and make it completely white.

In the next image I just added the green background in Photoshop.

This image I added the green background in Photoshop.

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Draper Utah Temple & Photowalking Day

Posted on: January 25th, 2009 by Jeremy No Comments

Saturday was a photography day!  First I got up early to get some shots of the new Draper Temple.  I am really happy with the results I got.  Getting there before the sun comes up is key.  It was a really cloudy and rainy morning which made it a little miserable.  I constantly had to keep my lens clear of spots.  To help increase the blue in the sky I set my white balance to tungsten.  This gives the white balance a cooler (temperature) look.

After that I met up with Luke Isley and went up Big Cottonwood Canyon.  I can not remember any time I have ever been up that canyon.  I have gone up Little Cottonwood a lot.  But we found a spot near the road and hiked about 10 min off the road to get some stream shots.  I used my polarized filter to keep glare to a minimum.  I shot at a slow shutter speed to give the water the silky look.  I also have a ND filter that I can put on, but didn’t need to because of the overcast day which made it dark enough to get the longer exposure I was looking for.

Then we had a photography meet up with the Photowalking Utah group.  It was at a greenery called Cactus and Tropicals.  We had a really great time taking photos with a great group of people.

To see more pictures from this trip.  Click on the following links:

Taken in a lightbox

Taken in a lightbox

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Few of the kids

Posted on: January 22nd, 2009 by Jeremy No Comments

Just playing around tonight, got a couple nice ones of the kids.  It was the first time I used my new reflector to give some fill light.

These were taken with a flash shot through an umbrella on the right side and the reflector on the left.

Camera position is standing above and looking down over Moms shoulder while she held her.

Camera position is standing above and looking down over Mom's shoulder while she held her.

Mason acting silly as usual

Same picture as the first one, but in color. I love her blue eyes!!

Same picture as the first one, but in color. I love her blue eyes!!

I’m excited, coming this next week I will be getting my studio strobes.  I have my white seamless background so hopefully get some nice shots in the coming weeks.

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Christmas photo shoot.

Posted on: December 15th, 2008 by Jeremy No Comments
We had a fun and challenging photo shoot with our children the other night.  Our goal was to get some good shots that we could use for our Christmas card this year.  We were really excited how these turned out.
It was very challenging taking these pictures with a newborn and a 2-year old.  Getting them to both cooporate at the same time and to keep our Maltese dog out of the shot too (he was so curious to what was going on).  
These shots were taken in our living room.  The children were sitting about 4 feet away from our Christmas tree, and I used my 70-200 telephoto lense and was in the kitchen about 8 feet away from the kids.  The shots had a very small depth of field which gave the subject a sharp look while putting the tree and bacgkround out of focus as to not take away from the subject.  
To throw the background out of focus you want to use a large aperature setting.  I used a f/4.0 aperature and zoomed in on the subject which gave these nice effects.
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Smugmug.com

Posted on: November 25th, 2008 by Jeremy No Comments


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Rock Climbers

Posted on: November 22nd, 2008 by Jeremy No Comments

Today I went with my buddy Luke on a photo outing.  We didn’t have any plans, but met in Orem.  After talking for a few we decided to go up Rock Canyon (the canyon above the Provo temple).  As we were going up there we saw some rock climbers and decided to ask them if it would be alight if we took some photos of them.  Well 200 photos later (just my share of photos, Luke had a bunch as well) we decided to say goodbye and walk up the canyon for a bit and see what was up there.

Here are a few photos from the trip.  (Hey “Rock climbers” — If you get on my blog, leave a post with your names, I am horrible with remembering names and have already forgot them :( – , Also I am posting all your pictures on my smugmug album, you are welcome to get them there.  Click Here to go to that album.  If you have any questions let me know.  –> jeremy.stowell@gmail.com)


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New Flash

Posted on: November 11th, 2008 by Jeremy No Comments

I have been extremely busy getting everything ready for the new baby coming in a few weeks, so I haven’t had much time for photography.
The other night I took a couple shots of Mason with my new flash and umbrella. This setup was using a 580 exII flash on camera and a 430 flash pointed into an umbrella off to the left on a stand. I post processed this image in Lightroom 2, and had to do some minor spot editing in Photoshop to remove a couple cracker crumbs he had on his lips. I was really pleased with the results.

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