Everyone else is blogging I guess I should too

I an attempt to share a little bit of my love for photography I am taking a page from Bud Thorpe and starting this photo blog. Normally I would just hand Bud an image and a lighting diagram (unless he was gripping for me and then he would make the lighting diagram, he has the file with the cool icons) but this will be a place to share some more adult images that are not appropriate on the SOPHA blog.

Lately I have been, in a sense, rebelling against the studio and shooting a lot of narrow depth of field images. With studio lights and in the studio of course but at f1.8 with the 50mm lens Bud got me for my birthday. Most of the time in the studio my working aperture is f8 or f11 so these images are a bit of a departure and are more challenging for me.

These images of Rabbit was shot on the white cyclorama with a muslin tossed on the floor. The 7 foot Octadome mounted on a White Lightning x1600 was just to camera right. The x1600 lamps are great for this because they have the quarter power switch and I am able to power down enough to get the correct exposure at f1.8 at ISO 100 at 1/125.