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Back from Fargo with a bunch of pictures of the kids in the pool. We met some of the family from Winnipeg in the middle. Each of us had to drive about 4 hours. The Holiday Inn in Fargo has a water slide park called Ship Wreck Bay. I am sure I got some pretty good pictures of the kids having fun. The best ones are probably on the Stylus 790, a waterproof camera. I was great. We were in and out of the water all weekend, and it just lived in my pocket. I could pull it out whenever, and never needed to worry about it getting wrecked. It is a great camera to have to just take snaps of the kids.

Kate likes it too. I can give it to her, and she can wander around taking pictures without us worrying about her dropping it. Waterproof, shockproof. Awsome.

Anyway, hope to have some pictures later.

The first evening in the studio when pretty well. It was good to get into a real studio with real lighting equipment, and get to use it. We had between 2-4 strobes in softboxes and grids going. This is the view from the back of the room.

The goal of this class was to look at how the use of the different lights would effect what the picture would look like. We had our model Maggie sitting on a stool. She had a couple of different wardrobe changes, and we used both a dark grey and a white background. These are the pictures from this shoot that worked out pretty well.

I am psyched. Today is the second day of my studio lighting class. The class is going to be down at the instructor’s studio. He is bringing in live models, and we will be using his strobes. He has some radio triggers (pocket wizards I think) that he is planning to use. He will have the recievers set up on the lights, and just hand us the transmitter when it is our turn. I will have more about the evening later.

I have a BlackRapid RS-2 (RS-2 is out of production now). Somehow I lost the star washer that locks the strap onto the camera. They call it the FastenR. I am kinda bummed. It works without it, but the chance of the camera coming off go up a lot. Makes me nervous. I guess I need to order another one.

Annie and I made fried egg roll things for supper. They are Mexican egg rolls, or Chinese burritos or something. They are Mexican type fillings in a fried won ton wrapper. They turned out great. The kids even ate a version that just had rice, chicken and cheese.

This needs a bit bigger depth of field. I shot it hand held with available light, which is just the light above the table which wasn’t very bright. I should have got out the tripod and maybe my flash, but hey, the food was getting cold and I was hungry.