The music at this April 2009 wedding was provided by Janine.  It was held at the Cracked Conch…will you just look at the iron shore and blue blue sea.  Janine was absolutely wonderful.  While the wedding service was delayed and started quite late, Janine entertained everyone while we waited.

This photo shoot of Gabz was taken in March 2009 in West Bay, Cayman Islands.  We were on the Iron Shore so it wasn’t the most comfortable for the models, and it was a little tricky get the light stands to stand up, but it was well worth it.  One of the things that I absolutely love about the Cayman Islands is that you could do an outdoor photo shoot just about every day of the year.  Stobist Information: Shot with a Canon 5D Mark II and a Canon 580EX II camera left with the sun at the horizon.  Post processing is a sudo HDR.

In this photo shoot we decided to really go all out with the make-up.  I also tried something different and created a really shallow depth of field (right eye sharp, left eye blurry).  Strobist info: Shot in the studio with a Canon 5D Mark II, 85mm 1.2/L lens, Pocket Wizard and Alien Bee 1600 and 800.

This shot was taken for strobist.blogspot.com’s Boot Camp II, Assignment 1 (http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/06/boot-camp-ii-first-assignment.html).  As we were taking the "normal" headshots, Suzy commented that she free dives and has free dove to sixty feet!  I can’t even image how one can do that, but needless to say I am very impressed.  That got me thinking…while I am sure when they said in the assignment to "Make it Appropriate" they didn’t quite mean this, I thought what the heck and we headed out to the pool   And yes, in the bottom right corner is a photo of me.  The assignment also required that the model take a photo of the photographer.

Strobist Info: Shot at around 2100 Hours outside in the swimming pool with the pool light on using my Canon 5D Mark II and the new 24mm f/1.4L II lens.  A Canon 580 EX II camera left at approximately 1/16 and an Olympus Flash camera right at approximately 1/32.  Both were shot through 42" Westcott umbrellas.

We were originally photographing Liz (the model on the left) when I asked fellow photographer Janet to join Liz.  The two of them really worked well together with a great result.  We were in the studio using Alien Bees, Pocket Wizards and my 5D Mark II.

This was a great photo shoot.  Anna was wonderful and very cooperative.   Strobist info: Canon 5D MkII and 24mm f/1.4L II USM in the studio with an Alien Bee AB800 camera left and above the model on a boom shot through a Westcott white umbrella.  An AB1600 camera right with a Paul Bluff foldable Octabox and a Nikon SB900 camera right, high (approximately 7′) and close to the backdrop aimed at the model.

Both the AB800 and AB1600 were at 1/16 with a 7" Silver Field Reflector.

I love the expressions on Wil’s and Olivia’s faces. I also find the red background with the chain link fence really makes this photo pop. This photo was taken between photographing the models. Wil is a photographer who was also shooting and Olivia was the make-up artist for the photo shoot. This was taken in the studio with Alien Bees.

Many of the models that I have had the pleasure of photographing over the past year here in the Cayman Islands had their makeup professionally done by Olivia. Olivia was kind enough to allow herself to be photographed at the end of this photo shoot.

This was one of the last shots in the photo shoot. It was taken in the studio with the following lighting setup: Camera left – an Octabox with an Alienbee 800; Camera right – a softbox with an Alienbee 1600 and one snoot light back left. Post processing consisted of cropping and removing the box reflection from the glass.

With the Miss Universe pageant yesterday evening, I thought it would be fitting to post a photo of Miss Cayman whom I had the pleasure of photographing early this year. It was an absolutely wonderful photo shoot with my good friend and fellow photographer, Paul Aiken. The model was Nicosia (Miss Cayman). The shoot included an Alienbee 1600 in an Octabox camera left, an Alienbee 800 in a softbox camera right and a SB800 to the right and behind Nicosia. They were shot with the my Canon 5D MK II and 85mm f /1.2L II using Pocket Wizards.