Like father like son

Here's a couple of shots of JCO enjoying a couple of his father's pastimes; photography and fishing. The first one was originally a grainy (due to high ISO) underexposed picture, but I liked the way the soft light (big window with blinds partially shut) wraps around his hair and face as well as highlights the camera. I also liked the pose; as if he was taking a moment away from his shooting to acknowledge that I'm there. I tried the black and white conversion and a little softness around the edges to give it that timeless look. What do you think?



The second shot was taken in the backyard where he likes to sit in his play boat and pretend to go fishing. I wanted to take advantage of the late afternoon sun and try out some strobist techniques. I placed my SB-600 flash on a tripod camera left put it into CLS mode. I shot in manual mode at the highest sync shutterspeed (1/500s on my D70s) and set the aperture to underexpose about 1 to 1.7 ev. I then set the on-camera flash to commander mode manual where I could dial in the flash output from the camera's menu. This is the first time I used the commander mode in manual mode...pretty cool. I was pleased to be able to dial in some fill from the left to balance out the sun to the right. I'm still trying to learn some of the off-camera flash techniques and, after this shoot, I feel like I have a long way to go.

Never-the-less, I'm glad to have captured these shots of my son doing (or pretending to do) the things I enjoy.