Steve Salt | Photography

Tim and Stephanie’s Wedding

We had a blast doing Tim and Stephanie’s engagement photos 10 months ago, and now I present to you their wedding:

Jason

Saturday we had a great workshop on Natural Light. Matt out did himself and we all (I hope) got some great shots. We worked and discussed diffusion and direction, composition and exposure. There was a little math (which glossed over my eyes), but not for long. After a presentation and some examples, we jumped right in.

In this shot, Jason’s torso is facing the light (a big window), and then looking towards me.

You can see a couple more pics in my Flickr stream.

Megan’s Senior Pictures

This weekend, spent some time with Megan for her Senior Pictures.
We started in the UW Arboretum on a mostly cloudy day, which produced some
great images, and mosquito bites! Wow, there was a constant buzzing in our
ears, and OFF! was prevalent and applied liberally, many times. she was a real
trooper, holding still for a few precious seconds while I shot, then swatting
away! We finally gave up and moved into downtown Madison.

Downtown we hit the a the parking garage, alleys, Museum of Contemporary Art,
and the Overture Center. The sun peaked out for a couple shots, but again,
mostly cloudy. Sun was often imitated with a flash and 1/4 CTO gel.

Good Luck your Senior Year!

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Visited the International Crane Foundation today. Un. Be. Liev. Able. This is a Grey Crowned Crane (or, more clearly, a crowned crane who has a grey body (see below). The crown is not grey.

*I’ll donate 10% of photos purchased back to the International Crane Foundation.

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Amazing. 5 photographers from Sydney Morning Herald speak out on Photography.

“There are 1440 minutes in a day. In these minutes photographers capture a moment. These moments make up a day which lasts forever.”

Watch the video slideshow with their commentary: Sydney Morning Herald Photos 1440 Exhibition

Welcome to Baby Whitney

Congratulations Matt and Jenny, on the birth of your baby girl! What a plesant baby to work with. She fussed just long enough for me to take some toy pictures, she smiled with her eyes at the right times, and then she fell asleep. Wonderful time and wish you the best of times, and good sleep!

Today’s Post brought to you by the Letter G

Ahhh… my friends at Gail Ambrosius Chocolates gave me a call and asked if I could get some “Action Shots”. Well, couple hours later and I had a slew of photos of chocolate truffles being made. I didn’t get the macro out, but I was very closely involved with many of the shots, trying to get the little details. It was a lot of fun. These aren’t really the big action shots, but these are some of the more artsy photos I personally choose as my favorites from the shoot.

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Clothesline in Black and White

I took a couple days off from work while my wife took the kids to her folks’ farm. Among the list was a sandbox and a clothesline (and many many more things). Summer=hot, and it makes sense not to have on an appliance whose main purpose is to create heat. Soooo, since the tools were out, an easy thing to do would be to add the clothesline. Of course, where to put the clothesline was the hard part. Anyway, here’s to saving some heat, and saving some electricity.

Evolution of a Photographer

I’m reinventing the wheel. People have been here before me. But until i got here, i didn’t know Here was a place to be, or a place to look around and see people with the same odd expression on their face that i have.

Gear makes you look cool. Gear makes you look professional. Customers/clients expect gear. Early on, I couldn’t afford gear, I had to see myself with my portfolio. Still can’t afford much, really, but my day job has a budget, so I can have gear at work. Over the last three years i’ve developed the department into a respectable photographic force to be reckoned with. But personally? Not yet. But there’s something i’ve noticed. The more gear I get, the more i dwell on the gear… “ok, i’ll need this lens with this scene, then i’ll switch to this one, oh i’ll need another light over there…” plus it’s getting heavy. My new outlook on life is if you can’t carry it (off the ground), you have too much with you. And even then, pair down a bit.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s time for the quadras and the octoboxes etc., but really, you need to be able to take a great photo with just one camera and one lens. If you can’t, all this other junk is just going to get you a mediocre photo and a backache.

Granted, there’s nothing like ripping open that box from B&H, and pulling out that nice new Thing and really, it can revitalize your creative spirit for awhile. But this too shall pass.

I have it if i need it, but my mind is returning to minimalist, because i WANT to. Shoot with one lens. Shoot with onelight. Whether that’s a speedlite or the sun, start there. Try to keep it there.

Gear becomes a crutch. Gear becomes the focus of envy. Gear becomes an addiction. Gear. I love gear. I admit it.

Forest Mushroom at Lake-Kegonza-3245

My buddy Paul and I took our sons camping (in a Thunderstorm, wind and 90+ heat index) I took only my 50mm lens, both freeing and limiting. Limiting, because it’s a fixed lens, and we spent quite a bit of time in the tents and even under the picnic table for a little while (well, not Paul and I so much). Freeing because, it’s all I had and didn’t have to think or worry about it…it’s lightweight (hiking), and pretty fast (f1.4), knowing it would be dark with the storms and firelight shots.

This is the first photo i took during the trip. The kids were distracted with some toy dumptrucks (and the rain had pretty much turned the campsite to one big wet sandbox), so Paul and I started in on the tents before the next rain shower. I almost stepped on the poor guy, amidst moss and forest floor debris. he was about 1-inch tall. The overcast day lent to some excellent colors and I could expose for details underneath the fins as well. Never NOT go shooting just because it’s overcast or even a little rainy.

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