B-Boy sings Mele Kalikimaka

Crazy-L sings Six White Boomers

Crazy-L turned five today! We celebrated with a trip to the Corn Maze and a picnic supper at Park Lake. Here is the recipe for the beef on a bun we had. Easy BBQ Beef on a Bun.

Crazy-L always makes a face. I used to think it was for the camera, like one of those fake smiles kids have when their mom says ’say cheese’. Nope, the more I watch him the more I realize he is always making a face. This is his normal.

This is a one light setup. Key light SB600 1/2 power about 3 feet from subject 45 degrees camera left shot through a shoot through umbrella. Camera settings are balanced for ambient fill at 1/80 f7.1 ISO 100 with a 50mm 1.4 lens on a Nikon D200. Flash was gelled with a 1/4 CTO for warmth. Learn to light at Strobist.com. Happy Snapping!

This is what a Crazy-L looks like as a zombie. If you play Halo at the park and you die, your brother will bury you in playground rocks and you will come back to life like this.

B-Boy and Crazy-L can now make popcorn on their own. The can get out the machine, measure the seeds, and pop it into a bowl without making to much of a mess or burning themselves. Mom still melts the butter. (Thank heaven’s they haven’t completely outgrown me yet, ha ha.)

Dude, you’re at the beach. Why are you so angry?

B-boy finally learns to ride his bike. Crazy-L isn’t too far behind.

Having fun with some new gear.
These were lit with a Nikon SB600 bare from camera right. The trick is gelling the flash to make it look more like sunset. I think I had either a 3/4 or Full CTO (color temperature orange) gel on it. You balance your flash output and your aperture to get the correct exposure for your subject. Once you have done that, you can pretty much move your shutter speed up or down until the ambient looks how you want it. In this case I had a higher shutter speed to make the background and sky darker.

I’ve always been convinced Crazy-L looks at the world differently.

Crazy-L at the new Spray Park in Lethbridge.