I’ve shot a wide variety of events since the last time I posted.
My first wedding:
My first pin-up shoot:
Another session with one of my favorite models, Kameron Derek:
And a nice shot of my daughter at the zoo:
I also shot the Fremont Solstice Parade and two conventions in the mean time. More on them later.
Enjoy!
I spent some time with Asher and family on Saturday for Asher’s 18-month-old pictures. He was a dream to shoot and I took some of my best strobist shots yet with him as my subject. Kids are always a challenge to shoot, but if you just play, joke, and act silly, they’ll eventually move or pose in just the right way and *click* that moment is captured forever.
The family and I headed up to Skagit County for the Tulip Festival and spent some time walking around the fields.
You can view it here. Enjoy!
I organized a photostroll last Saturday for the Seattle Flickrites meetup group. They’re a great group of people and I encourage anyone who has even a passing interest in photography and any kind of camera to join us at our meetups and member sponsored events. Here are a few shots I took on Saturday.
Our illustrious leader, Paul, came with his two daughters and I captured this moment after he and one of his daughters boarded the roller coaster at Seattle Center.
This is a 23-exposure, 123+ megapixel freeheld panoramic of the west side of the Experience Music Project. It took almost an hour for Photoshop CS3 to stitch this together in Photomerge. I wish I could post the larger version here, but it would destroy my blog. I love what’s going on in the bottom left corner with a fellow Flickrite pointing his camera up at the side of the EMP and a stranger looking wistfully out of frame to the left.
I took and processed this image on my I-Phone. I love the apps and the I-Phone camera that allow me to do this and will continue to use the I-Phone as a viable photographic medium.
Also taken and processed on the I-Phone.
Also taken and processed on the I-Phone.
I’m fascinated by shapes and how black and white photography can change them.
I tried for several minutes to get this shot just right, firing off 10 or so frames before I settled on this one. Then, in CS3, I applied a faked film processing to it and the results just sort of blew me away.
Sometimes I’ll be holding my camera and focussed on a subject when something will catch my attention elsewhere. I’ll quickly direct my camera there and rapidly fire off a few frames before determining what caught my eye. This style most often results in junk, but this time I got a single capture that speaks volumes about the person I only partially photographed.
-Josh
Here’s a few I took of Lacey.
Model: Lacey
Naked slaved Vivitar 283 lighting the back wall
Canon 430 EX camera right and slightly above shooting through a diffusion umbrella
Reflector camera left and slightly below
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Model: Lacey
Slaved Vivitar 283 snooted and lighting from camera right just behind and to camera right of the model
Canon 430 EX camera left and slightly above shooting through a diffusion umbrella
Reflector camera right and just out of frame
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Model: Lacey
Slaved Vivitar 283 snooted and lighting from camera right just behind and to camera right of the model
Canon 430 EX camera left and slightly above shooting through a diffusion umbrella
Reflector camera right and just out of frame
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS US
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-Josh
Model: Amy
Naked slaved Vivitar 283 lighting the back wall
Canon 430 EX camera right and slightly above shooting through a diffusion umbrella
Reflector camera left and slightly below
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Model: Amy
Slaved Vivitar 283 snooted and lighting from camera right just behind and to camera right of the model
Canon 430 EX camera left and slightly above shooting through a diffusion umbrella
Reflector camera right and just out of frame
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Model: Amy
Slaved Vivitar 283 snooted and lighting from camera right just behind and to camera right of the model
Canon 430 EX camera left and slightly above shooting through a diffusion umbrella
Reflector camera right and just out of frame
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Model: Amy
Slaved Vivitar 283 snooted and lighting from camera right just behind and to camera right of the model
Canon 430 EX camera left and slightly above shooting through a diffusion umbrella
Reflector camera right and just out of frame
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Model: Amy
Slaved Vivitar 283 snooted and lighting from camera right just behind and to camera right of the model
Canon 430 EX camera left and slightly above shooting through a diffusion umbrella
Reflector camera right and just out of frame
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Model: Amy
Slaved Vivitar 283 snooted and lighting from camera right just behind and to camera right of the model
Canon 430 EX camera left and slightly above shooting through a diffusion umbrella
Reflector camera right and just out of frame
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Hope you enjoyed seeing more from this shoot!
-Joshua Frost
The rain was nice enough to force the cancelation of the wedding shoot I was going to do today, so I wrangled a few models, one of whom (Amy) I’ve worked with twice before, and took over the lower level of a UW parking garage with my gear. It was a great shoot. Amy, as always, is a fantastic model to work with. She brought her cousin Lacey along and despite Lacey’s assertion that she wasn’t photogenic, well, she was. I’m not sure if she wants her photos posted, though, so I’ll just post two of my favorites of Amy.
Model: Amy
Naked slaved Vivitar 283 lighting the back wall
Canon 430 EX camera right and slightly above
Reflector camera left and slightly below
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Model: Amy
Naked slaved Vivitar 283 lighting the back wall
Canon 430 EX camera right and slightly above
Reflector camera left and slightly below
Triggered by Pocket Wizard IIs on camera and 430 EX
Shot with a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
I’ll post some additional shots as I process them. Welcome to the blog of Joshua Frost Photography! Sign up, sign in, and post!
-Joshua Frost
… less than 10 days.
-Josh
