Fall is here! We were able to spend the evening at the lovely Carmel Palladium amongst the wonderful architecture and gardens that fill the area. Zack was a natural and I can’t wait to work through the rest of the images! Click to view full size.
Hay Family Sneak Peek
Summer is here! I had the pleasure of spending an evening with the wonderful Hay family shooting family photos at the local Coxhall Gardens here in Carmel. They brought along their pup Lucy who turned out to be quite the photogenic character! I'm looking forward to working through the rest of the photos, it was hard to pick just four! Click to view full size.
The Birth of K & Updates
Indie Coffee Roasters
Before I talk about the pictures below I wanted to take a second to mention a neat new local coffee shop here in Carmel. Indie Coffee Roasters opened this past week and I had the opportunity to stop by and try their selection! ICR imports and roasts their own selection, offering a relaxing seating area where you can enjoy their roasts in whatever brewing method you prefer. Definitely worth a look!
K's First Week
What a week it has been. I've been fortunate enough to take the week off to help my wife and G adjust to life with our second newborn. I've been squeezing editing in to the few free moments we have after G is asleep and my wife is busy with K. I've been very happy with the photographs, and I'll be the first to admit that several made me tear just through the editing process. Moments like these are once in a lifetime and I consider myself very fortunate to be able to capture them in the way that I did.
Updates
January kept me engaged some corporate headshot work, as the Indiana weather certainly doesn't give much opportunity to work outdoors. Several great sessions are coming up in the next few weeks! I have an exciting opportunity to work with a client at the Focus On Studio in Carmel which is a terrific studio where you can rent the space by the hour. One of my goals this year is to learn more about studio photography and increase my skills in this area, and this certainly gives me the opportunity to do that.
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Introducing the Newest Team Member
My wife and I are thrilled to welcome our second daughter into the world. Both mommy and baby are doing great. IU Health in Carmel, Indiana has been tremendous in delivering both of our daughters. While we have some downtime here in the hospital I wanted to show off a couple of photos from the big day and talk through how I took them!
Lens Choice
For photographing the birth I wanted something that would work well indoors with no flash and I wanted the creamy 'bokeh' effect to blur any distracting backgrounds. To get that blurred bokeh effect you need a lens with a low f stop number. This reduces your depth of field, the ISO required in low light conditions, and increases the blurry bokeh effect. I rented a Nikkor 85mm f1.4 for the occasion and have been extremely pleased with it's performance. The only issue I've had with the lens was the minimum focus distance being 3', and the distance required to frame a person requiring to usually be about 4-5' away from the subject. In hindsight I might have been better with the 58mm f1.4 lens, but that would have reduced lens compression. All in all you can't always get exactly what you want out of a lens, but the pictures have turned out phenomenal and I couldn't be happier.
I wanted to get a few pictures up while we were in the hospital, and there's still plenty more to come!
