Nikki Meador Emporia High School

It has been a couple of busy weeks here! With school getting ready to start for most people next week there has been quite a rush to get sessions done before the first day of school. Today my morning session was rained out so it has given me time to work most of the day on images AND to spend some quality Blogging time!

OK so how about some photography 101 stuff today?

We photographed Nikki about two weeks ago and wanted to post a couple of her images. I have been having a lot of fun this year "playing" with light ever since Diane and I had the opportunity to study and to become friends with one of the best senior photographers in the country earlier this spring. Kirk Voclain from the New Orleans area specializes in seeing and capturing the "light" and applying studio lighting techniques in the outdoor setting. The image on the left here is a classic example of "short lighting" as you can see the light is striking Nikki's face so that the shadow side of her face is towards the camera. This is a classic studio feminine lighting style. It is fun playing with the sun as I we would do in the studio with our strobes.

In this image of Nikki I decided to take full advantage of the bright backlighting that is so popular in the fashion magazines and to play with the sun and wind a bit. As you can probably tell Nikki is a Coca-Cola collector!

Thanks as always for reading! Better get back to putting the finishing touches on images. I have tons of things to share with you over the next week or so. Stay tuned! Thanks for your business and for supporting our photography passion!

Tom