JAMES HODGINS PHOTOGRAPHY

When we photographed the Leroy family earlier last week, I also photographed the daughters individually (In case mom wanted to create a wall college from the session).   As photographers we tend to stick with what we learned, and that is when photographing a portrait, try using a lens of at least 85MM or more.  I tend to use my 85mm F1.8 or my 70-200 MM F2.8 so that I can create a shallow DOF so that my subjects pop our of the image.    For this image below I thought I would break out my good ol trusted 50 MM.  A very standard simple lens (for most of us that started photography using “Film” this was the standard lens, no it’s all zooms that comes with the camera body).  I forgot just awesome this cheap lens is at achieving the same look.  I now have 2 50mm lenses, one is a macro lens for my closeups, but the other I bought a long long time ago for $149 and now they are available for $139 at most retail stores.    It’s small, it’s plastic, but it’s SHARP!  Personall, I think all photographers should carry a 50mm in their arsenal of equipment.

Why am I holding this “Delux High Back Boat Seat”?  Well, it will be a choice that some of you make in the near future.  Some will choose right, some will choose wrong.  You will soon find out. Stay tuned.

Well we are back home now but still on holidays.  We did over 7000 kms, no major problems and everyone is still alive and no-one is going to jail for murder.  The East Coast great and I am glad we were able to do it on motorcycles.  Stay tuned for 2 Wheels To Jasper coming July 2010.

If you haven’t been following our trip you can view it all at 2 Wheels To The East Coast

We just finished Emily and Wess’s engagement session.  They will be getting married this August just outside of Northbay.  We are looking forward to this wedding (as we do them all) as it will take place out of town, with lots of woodsy stuff like Apple Orchards, and woods, and fields, and trees and woods and stuff.   Something different, and different is sometimes good.