April 09

April 09

April the month of the fools a month to celebrate for many reasons a month to crunch the numbers, search for eggs a month to celebrate the greens and of course arbor day and earth day, and lets not forget Buddha's birthday, New year for Thailand, Cambodia and lets not forget April 24 Arminian Remembers day. April the month of the Diamonds, Daisy's and Sweet-peas. The month of the Ram/Aries, and fire, also the month of my birthday April 3rd 1986 in a small house in Mexico City.

I have come a long way from my native home, with such a long and interesting intro April 2009 was a month not to be forgotten, I got to see Steel Panther visited WA Everett and Seattle, had some fun times with the guys and interesting job opportunities, and of course some photo shoots, a Sweet 16 Brenda Campos, a 25th anniversary Lupe and Big O and Ashley Duree's College Graduation Pictures, ohh and lets not forget i got a new puppy, Canon... yes he's named after the camera company. well with no further do lets check out the pics i took this month.

Brenda Sweet 16
With Brendas pictures i shoot with the ambient light and a strobe at 25%, I open all the windows and sliding doors so i can have a natural feel of light... Main light was the windows and the strob at the left side was my fill light.

Camera:Canon 5D
E.P:Manual
Format: L Raw
Lens: Canon 24-70 2.8
1/50 sec
F-stop: 2.8
ISO: 640
Focal Lenght 28mm



Camera:Canon 5D
E.P:Manual
Format: L Raw
Lens: Canon 24-70 2.8
1/60 sec
F-stop: 2.8
ISO: 640
Focal Lenght ?




25th Anniversary Wedding
With this pictures i used the sun as my key light and only light and a strobe for the fill lighting.

Camera:Canon 5D
Lens: Canon 28-105mm f:3.5-4.5
E.P:Manual
Format: L Raw
1/400 sec
F-stop: 10
ISO: 125
Focal Lenght 35mm



1st picture
Camera:Canon 5D
Lens: Canon
E.P:Manual
Format: L Raw
1/ 200sec
F-stop: F/11
ISO: 100
Focal Lenght: 70mm

2nd picture
Camera:Canon 5D
Lens: Canon 28-105mm f:3.5-4.5
E.P: Manual
RAW
1/400 sec
F-stop: 10
ISO: 125
Focal Lenght: 70mm




My Cuzin in WA Seattle (ima post more pics of Seattle )
Natural light

Camera:Canon 5D
Lens: Canon 28-105mm f:3.5-4.5
E.P:Manual
Format: L Raw
1/1600 sec
F-stop: 4.5
ISO: 50
Focal Lenght: 28mm

Camera:Canon 5D
Lens: Canon 28-105mm f:3.5-4.5
E.P:Manual
Format: L Raw
1/60 sec
F-stop: 4.5
ISO: 100
Focal Lenght: 28mm

Ashley Duree's Graduation Pictures
with this pictures i used 3 lights one behind the back drop at 50% shooting down up my key light was at left and 45 degrees right above ashely with a softbox the fill light was at the right of ashly shooting at 35 percent with a umbrella

Camera:Canon 5D
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f: 2.8
E.P:Manual
Format: L Raw
1/125 sec
F-stop: 14
ISO: 50
Focal Lenght: 150mm

Camera:Canon 5D
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f: 2.8
E.P:Manual
Format: L Raw
1/125 sec
F-stop: 14
ISO: 50
Focal Lenght: 150mm

This is a before and after of my own work...(Bridgett)
this pictures i shoot with a strobe in location and i retouched it with photoshop i cut her out and i added some motion blur effects with some layer blend modes and some cool textures and colors...
Before
Camera:Canon 5D
Lens: Canon 50mm 1.8
E.P:Manual
Format: L JPG (yes i shoot .jpg [it was an accident])
1/125 sec
F-stop: 11
ISO: 50
Focal Lenght: 50mm
After

Well this is it i hope you guys enjoyed it if not well let me know what you dint like or what you did... i think im going to post a weekly blog and a summery the month at the end of every month... well take care and thanks for taking your time and reading... much love


Ricky J. Hernandez
RLP Graphics
714.200.3032
RLPGraphics@gmail.com