Day 6 of 365: The Great Tate and Foxy Roxy.

SO I got this one out pretty late in the day, I know. Two minutes to spare. Whatever, my day doesn't end at midnight...

We had a dinner party at my buddy Joe's house tonight.  A wonderful crew of friends was there, including these two, some of my favorite people in all the world, Tate and Roxanne. We ate and drank like kings; the table was covered with dishes like goat cheese stuffed mushrooms, Chili con Fritos, pork soup, brushetta, vegetable frittata, fried chicken, and blueberry cobbler. I knew I wanted my first 'strobist' picture to be a shot of Tate and Roxanne, but I kept putting off it off as we drank, ate, and laughed. I wanted it to be outside as well, and it was COLD out there, so again, let me sit and drink this port for a spell before this nonsense of the picture-taking.

(Warning: the following paragraph contains langauge some may consider Geeky, Nerdy, and generally Dorkish. Apologies.)

Then, suddenly, people were yawning and putting on coats and hugging goodbye. I sprinted out the door to my car and tossed up a Canon 580 EXII into a large shoot-thru umbrella on a stand. I put another 580 EXII on my Canon 5D Mk2 to wirelessly fire the off-camera flash. Used a slow shutter speed (1/4 sec I think) and wide open aperture to get the street light to expose a little brighter, especially on their backs and the street. The trees had a cool motion blur in the raw frame (cause I can't hold a camera steady), but I decided to add a lens blur in PS, which I think looks better and doesn't distract from the subjects.

Thanks for reading. More coming...