eli turner » Portraits http://www.eliturner.com/blog contemporary lifestyle photography Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:07:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Holland in the leaves http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/12/holland-in-the-leaves/ http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/12/holland-in-the-leaves/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:12:55 +0000 admin http://www.eliturner.com/blog/?p=283 Had a few minutes with my daughter the other day and we got some nice shots.

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Holland in the leaves

Holland in the leaves

Holland in the leaves

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Melrose Trip – Images by Eli Turner Photography

]]> http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/10/trip-to-melrose/feed/ 0 Swinging with friends http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/07/swinging-with-friends/ http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/07/swinging-with-friends/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:57:14 +0000 admin http://www.eliturner.com/blog/?p=240 My friend Fozia asked me to take some portraits of her young daughter and her three close friends.   The girls would be going to different schools next year and the mothers all thought it would be a good idea to have a nice keepsake.   As you can imagine keeping four 5 year olds in one place long enough for a group portrait can be a bit of a challenge.  Fortunately there were swings and other fun obstacles everywhere.  These images were captured in all natural light with a 50mm lens.

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]]> http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/07/swinging-with-friends/feed/ 1 Mrs. Maryland 2008 http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/06/mrs-maryland-2008/ http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/06/mrs-maryland-2008/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:36:41 +0000 admin http://www.eliturner.com/blog/?p=218 Our good friend Siobhan Davenport won the Mrs. Maryland America Pageant 2008 and I was honored when she asked me to take some headshots for her in her crown.

Even though it drizzled on the day we scheduled to shoot the overcast skies provided us with some amazingly beautiful light. Instead of trying to recreate the light myself indoors I gambled a little with the weather and decided to set up the background outside on her front porch.  The cloudy sky acted as a gigantic softbox and I supplemented it with just a small flash unit over the camera for a little “eye pop.”

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]]> http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/06/mrs-maryland-2008/feed/ 1 CLS Test 1 http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/05/cls-test-1/ http://www.eliturner.com/blog/2009/05/cls-test-1/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 03:20:55 +0000 admin http://www.eliturner.com/blog/?p=191 Ever since I’ve started shooting with the Nikon D2x and more recently the D3 I’ve kind of avoided ever really learning or fully embracing the speedlight control system Nikon calls the CLS(Creative Lighting System.) Basically it uses a series of pulses of light from the on-camera speedlight to control one or several off-camera speedlights. I’ve cautiously employed this system on weddings in manual/dumb slave mode but after reading Joe McNally’smost recent book The Hotshoe Diaries I’ve decided to start playing around with the possiblities of the other modes.

My over-sugared nephew and son were willing test subjects for this little experiment. Holding one SB-800 in my left hand(with the sensor pointing towards the on-camera flash,) another SB-800 on the body as the master and the D3 in aperture priority mode in my right I tried to get a sense of how it all works. The on-camera flash was set to — so that it would not fire and only control the hand-held which was being told to fire in TTL mode.

I found the results a little eractic, but when it worked it worked well. Tilting the camera up or down just a small amount, seeing a little more or a little less sky, caused the sensor to make extreme adjustments to the exposure and the flash output. As with all things there is a bit of a learning curve but I hope to figure this out soon so that I can continue to keep carrying less gear on my jobs. As I learn more I will post more.

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