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Well i finally did one… I’m not one who likes pictures of myself unless its riding. But i figured it was now time to give a try at a self-portrait. So here is my first go at a self-portrait:

I always wanted to try a shot with a black background and the subject lit. I used Trevor and his bike to try out this shot. I was a little nervous about all the shinny parts of the bike and the flash and how they would interact. We spent about an hour and a half trying to get a good shot. We came out with a couple cool shots:

After a fun little surf near the Waves Pier, I got out the camera because i thought that the dark and storm immanent would make for a very cool backdrop. Ill preface that i spent most of the morning reading and studying different flash techniques, so i was lets say eager to get out and try out what i had learned. I again tried to use an off camera flash to start dialing in the strobist in me. So after the surf session I grabbed a couple friends and started shooting.

I shot with the 430 off camera (Mel was my human tripod for the shoot). I had the 580 on the camera with the diffuser. I kept the 430 at about 1/2-1/16 power and the 580 around 1/2 – 1/8 power. I just switched up the power and distances of the shots to play around and see the differences would be. The first and biggest thing i need to work on is the power and controlling the shadows. Overall I was hap with the results. Here is how they turned out:

The wind never showed so we went wakeskating. here are a couple photos:

Here is another Video shot and edited by Tom Court. There are a few shots you can catch what i did all week.

Lauren graduated from College this weekend.

Yesterday was my first time really out shooting in Waves since moving up here. I shot a couple shots last evening after work adn then headed to the Rodanthe Pier to shoot the sun rise and go for a surf.

Evening shots (4/17) :

Sunrise shots (4/18) :

Ryan had one of his client come down for the last few days. After work The three of us headed to KP for a super boost session. It was well, windy! it was averaging around 35 and Ryan went out on a 7 waroo, Nuzzi was on a 6m havoc, and john was out on a 5 waroo. I decided to go out on my smallest kite a 8m havoc. I defiantly had my PR hang-time. It was a fun short session with tons of big jumps before the hands and feet went numb. The images below were shot my Ryan’s Student Alex.

These two pictures were taken from the House at sunup the photos were taken a day apart from each other. Not a bad view to wake up to every morning…

The following two pictures were taken during my lunch at the Lighthouse parking lot.