Had a quick shoot at Stephen & Co. yesterday to grab an outdoor pedicure shot for an advertisement in SOCO magazine this summer. My model was my stylist’s daughter, who has dimpled you could fall into and a beautiful smile. She did great. My most favorite smile unfortunately fell to poor composition from me, I amputated the bottom of her heel and have been beating myself up about it since yesterday. I will bear my horrible screw-up to you, blog readers, because I need some accountability for my mortal photography sins.

Ugh. Way to suck, Pam. BUT I did get these other two that are better composed and still pretty. For all of these I had a 3/4 CTO gelled flash behind a shoot-through umbrella to camera right. We were in 9am daylight, in complete shade.

I also was assigned to get a new shot of the front of the salon. I saw the older one in ads before and it was shot in seriously harsh light, portrait orientation and tight on just the front door. I did the complete opposite. Complete morning shade with the sun just about to come over the roof so it backlit the trees really nicely, landscape orientation and got the whole salon in the frame. I tried to get some nice greenery framing the shot. I had my lovely assistant hold my flash, still gelled, over a puddle to light up that sign on camera right. I’m pretty happy with it.

Now I’ve got to get back to editing Chris and Betty’s wedding photos! More on my first wedding shoot later. Wedding photography: not for the easily stressed letmetellya.

OH! Almost forgot, you can head over to http://www.stephenandcompany.com and see my shots up on their brand new website! There’s a few that are not mine, the group shot on the main page isn’t me though I think I’m doing their next one, there’s a few stock photos here and there and obviously the old salon front shot isn’t me but the rest are! Yay!