After a full day of photo documenting a training session for school principal and the importance of their relationship with their secretaries, this was the last shot of the day... To me it shows how comfortable the two are together.  Who's the boss?

Location Photograher.

The assignment was to photograph these four people for the web site of Anytime Fitness.  I got there, set up two lights on stands using umbrella's and immediately felt trapped.  I love photographing people on location, in natural settings.  Having them pose together with their feet up on a bench  made much more sense to me.  To me it shows that they enjoy working out with each other and shows the tone of the facility.  While the "formal" shots worked, there was not that layer of naturalness that I look for in my work.  As soon as we hit the gym floor, the smiles got broader and the shyness of being photographed vanished.  Natural, comfortable photography.

Photographing the serious body builder and golfer

This photo of golfer and body builder, Michael Minavian was used for his "Atomic Golf" book which was published a few years ago.  The book contained physical exercise routines for  the golfer as well as exercises for anyone wishing to easily improve their golf game. 

River Garden's 2014 Golf Outing.

It's always my pleasure to donate my work to River Garden.  It's a spectacular facility.  I hope that as I age I won't require assisted living or elder care...   But if I do, I hope I remember River Garden's telephone number.  Every one involved in the golf outing worked hard, played hard, dodged thunder and lightning-and in short, everyone had a great day.

Image of the week...

Not shooting sports on a regular basis my timing is not always dead on.  Yesterday I got lucky.... caught it just right.  Coming out of the bunker and catching the sand in the air... makes up for the duffs.

Best Friends

It's always difficult to find the "right" words when someone is hurting.  Gator was being put down and John had to part with his best friend of many years.  Converting the image to black and white added some specialness to this image.

Giving Back To The Community

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I've always enjoyed giving back to the community.  The JCA's Purim Festival was a huge success.

Family Portait

Quick and easy family portraits.....  I call this my "beam me aboard" pose because of the spacing between couples.  It reminds me of the Star Trek transporter.

Two Shots...

It took two shots to capture the essence of Alan's personality.  He smiled for me on the second shot.  I used two Quantum 5D's shot into umbrellas and a Canon 580EX bounced off the ceiling as a background and hair light for this shot.  I metered each umbrella separately and then metered them together and decided on iso 400, 1/80th of a second at f.6.3.  The exposure was dead on when put it into Lightroom and printed really well.

Restoration

How long do you think it took me to restore this 1917 wedding photograph that was emailed to me as a rather small file?

To Flash or Not To Flash....

The museum doesn't allow flash photography.  Technology gives us the ability to shoot at a high iso.  I'm just not used to the "soft" look of available light.  However, I do think the shot works...

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

There was no way to make this bouquet look like it belonged in any of my pictures at this wedding.  I think brides look at too many magazines when planning their wedding.  I remember at the time thinking that this bouquet would have worked better as a chest protector for a baseball catcher or umpire.

Choosing images for the new www.tallisphoto.com website took a bunch of time but turned out to be a lot of enjoyment.  Seeing clients and assignment that hadn't been seen in a while reminded that the success of our business was built one assignment and recommendation at a time.  This unformal-formal family photo shows my candid yet comfortable style of posing.