Isabella sticking her tongue out
Went out to a photographers’ meetup yesterday, and roamed the streets of downtown Sarasota with a bunch of fellow photographers. This made for some mighty interesting photographs, like this portrait in front of a busy sidewalk. It was a fun time all around, got to meet a bunch of other people and just generally have a good time. Afterwards I got to go pick up Danielle, and go meet our friends Ryan and Jessica, with my camera gear still in the car.
Danielle and I
So I’ve been dating Danielle for two years now, and got to come back to Bradenton for a couple days for the occasion. Hung out for a while today, and then went to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner. Of course they had to pick March 4th to have their 2 for 1 entree special, so we got a nice long wait, but all was well: some bunnies were munching in a retention bond nearby, so we had something to watch during the wait.
A shot in front of the pond. Lit by an SB-25 in a shoot-through umbrella to camera left, and a bare gelled SB-26 to camera right, for hairlight
Got a light meter recently, and I must say, incident metering is absolutely, immensely awesome. I can now just stick the meter right up in someone’s face and get a perfect exposure straight-off: no chimping or guessing. And as an added bonus, it even tells you how much of the exposure is made up by flash and ambient. So, new meter in hand, I took a trip out to the recently opened Robinson Preserve, to give it a little test run, and have fun in the park, of course.