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Winter Wonderland

Posted by awcarey on December 16, 2010
Posted in: Canon 50D, Canon G11, Local Beauty, Switzerland. Tagged: beauty, landscape, snow. Leave a Comment

We’ve had so much snow lately.  It’s a pain to have to get out into it, but it’s a photographer’s dream.

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Happy Birthday

Posted by awcarey on December 11, 2010
Posted in: 5DmkII, Elinchrom, Kids, photography. Tagged: birthday, card, personal, photo, special. Leave a Comment

This year we did personalized birthday cards.  With just one session in the studio and we had several different images to use for our cards.  It was pretty fun too!

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Family Time in the Studio

Posted by awcarey on December 4, 2010
Posted in: 5DmkII, Clients, Elinchrom, photography, portraits, Switzerland. Leave a Comment

I had a great time with these guys – look how lovely they are!

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Autumn Colors

Posted by awcarey on November 11, 2010
Posted in: 5DmkII, Elinchrom, family photos, Kids, photography, portraits, random info, Switzerland. Tagged: 2010, kids, portrait, Switzerland. Leave a Comment

A few shots out in our back yard earlier this month.  I’m getting new portable lights for my birthday, so there’ll be more of this to come!

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Expelliarmus!

Posted by awcarey on October 15, 2010
Posted in: 5DmkII, Elinchrom, Kids, portraits, Switzerland. Tagged: 2010, Harry Potter, kids, photography, portraits, Wizard. 2 comments

We had a bit of Harry Potter fun in the studio this week.

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Blue Skies

Posted by awcarey on August 10, 2010
Posted in: 5DmkII, Elinchrom, photography, portraits, Switzerland. Leave a Comment

A little bit of photoshop magic and that grey backdrop turns into (sort of) blue skies.

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Freeze!

Posted by awcarey on July 29, 2010
Posted in: 5DmkII, Elinchrom, photography, portraits, Switzerland. 1 comment

Stop motion in the studio must be done with strobes rather than shutter speed.  It’s a bit of a balance act – not to mention the space issue!

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Hollywood Style

Posted by awcarey on June 18, 2010
Posted in: 5DmkII, Elinchrom, photography, portraits, Switzerland. Tagged: black and white, grid, hard, hollywood, light, portrait. 4 comments

Hard directional light is tough to manage, but it can create a classic Hollywood portrait style.

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Friends!

Posted by awcarey on June 8, 2010
Posted in: 5DmkII, Elinchrom, photography, portraits, Switzerland. Tagged: 4, boys, portrait, studio. Leave a Comment

One of the wonderful things about living all around the world is all the great friends you get to make.  We hadn’t seen these friends of ours in literally 10 years!  What a great reunion. :)

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1930 dustbowl

Posted by awcarey on June 3, 2010
Posted in: 5DmkII, Elinchrom, photography, portraits, Switzerland. Tagged: 1930s, America, drought, dustbowl, migrant, okie, poverty. 3 comments

Matthew helped me out with a theme I’ve been wanting to work on. He’s an excellent actor.

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