5511 Project – The Cameron Family

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I was asked to photograph the Cameron family so they can give the photos in an album as a gift to the childrens grandmother. The original plan was to photograph them at Monmouth Battlefield Park but we changed it to Lake Topanemus in Freehold, NJ. Initially I set up my gear at the small beach [...]

5511 Project – Janet’s first photoshoot

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Janet is a singer/songwriter from New Jersey who needed some photos for her myspace music page.  She has never modeled before so she was quite nervous.  Janet made it really easy for me to get good shots because she is a very photogenic girl.  We shot at Monmouth Battlefield State Park, in a few different [...]

5511 Project – Creepy Guy Self Portrait

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I was bored and waiting for Lost to come on and decided to take 5 minutes and do some self portraits.  I had the Nikon 14-24 lens on my D700 from the previous day at the NY Auto Show so I decided to leave it on.  I placed an SB900 underneath the camera aimed up [...]

5511 Project – Sami in the tunnel

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The second of my 5511 project is Sami. Sami was shot in a tunnel at Patapsco State Park in Maryland. At first Sami had some fun jumping in the air for me to capture. After a few of those (including one that looks like she is 20 feet up) I got a really nice portrait [...]

5511 Project – The Chicken Reading

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My first 5511 subject was my girlfriend’s brother dressed as a Chicken and reading a book. David was sitting on the left side of the couch (camera right). I placed a Nikon SB-900 w/ a Honl/Rosco CTO Gel and a Lumiquest Softbox III very close to him. With my D700 white balanced to Tungsten I [...]

5511 – a new photo project

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(pronounced: fifty-five eleven) Here is a new photo project idea that I will start doing.  5511.  It is quite simple really. Someone will pay me $5 to photograph them.  It’s not a lot of money and I know that.  With that $5 the customer will have a short 5 minute photo shoot where I will [...]