How do you get to Carnegie Hall?…Practice! Practice makes perfect, so Nicole and I occasionally take to the streets to practice our craft and keep sharp.  Recently, another local photographer, Erica Hayes, who we are friends with thanks to facebook groups, asked if we would like to get together to practice some off camera lighting.  We love sharing what we’ve learned with others and we love learning what others may be able to teach us…so, of course, we said yes!

We met up with Erica on Wednesday afternoon for our practice session.  Erica’s daughter, Lexi, was kind enough to model for us and, as you can see from the pictures, she definitely has some experience in front of the camera!  The purpose of our practice session was to get a very dramatic look to the image by using off camera lighting. If we were shooting these images with natural light only, we wouldn’t get the same results at all! Lucky for us, mother nature was kind enough to provide a gorgeous sunset as our backdrop! (Mother nature also provided us with about a thousand mosquito bites, but it was worth it!)

Erica, thanks for coming out to practice with us! Nicole and I had a blast!

Have a great weekend!