There are frequent times throughout the year where I find myself frustrated with my photography. In fact, I have been remiss with updating my blog due to a lack of inspiration since my last shoot in October with Eddy at The Padre.
At that point, I postponed shooting for the remainder of November knowing I was traveling back to Bellefonte for Thanksgiving. This trip I decided I would shoot some film of PSU and Bellefonte using my Dad's Rollei and several rolls of 120mm film; some Black and White, some Color and one roll of Fujichrome.
Since November of 2009 I've been in contact with John, a Penn State College Professor and photographer, and we decided we would shoot together at least once while I was there. Last year I purchased an Apollo Softbox and light stand to leave at our Bellefonte house so I would only need to bring my camera and a flash.
I drove to John's house in State College and spent several hours photographing PSU Senior Karisa. I had a blast working with Karisa and tried numerous lighting styles. We produced some pretty decent images both outside and in John's studio.
Before we left to head home, I did a quick family portrait shoot with Teresa's best friend Lori and her two daughters. Again, pretty simple lighting, Apollo Softbox with an SB-900 triggered via Nikon CLS. I was surprised how well CLS worked in the bright daylight inside the soft box, even when receiver of the SB-900 was not visible to the pop-up flash.
- I brought my heavy backpack, but in the end I only needed my D700, 24mm-70mm G lens and my SB-900 to accomplish a majority of the shoots
I definitely needed the break to just shoot around without any set goals, or expectations. I came back feeling rejuvenated and ready to try something different.
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