San Diego, California family portrait photographer, Chris Keeney, sets up a mini portable studio in the client’s home to create baby, children and family photography. Shot on-location in San Diego, February 2010 with Canon EOS 5D, 85mm F/1.2 and 50mm F/1.4 lenses.
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Tags: 50mm f/1.4, 580exII, 85mm f1.2, babies, baby, Canon EOS 5D, children, family, First Year, natural light, off camera flash, on-location, pocket wizards, portable studio, Portrable Home Studio, Portraits, portraiture, Prime Lenses, toddlers
One of the great things about being a portrait photographer is that you get to meet a lot of new and interesting people. Last weekend I had the pleasure of being hired to create a series of head shots of San Diego software engineer, Brett Drainer, who lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Brett contacted...
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Tags: 580exII, 70-700mm f2.8, 85mm f1.2, 92067, Ambient Light, California, Canon EOS 5D, Head Shots, Male, Morning Light, off camera flash, Portraits, rancho santa fe, SD, Single, SoCal
The other day I was experimenting with a series of portraits using my Canon EOS 5D, a 50mm f/1.4 lens, and two 580EX II speedlights (one on camera and one off-camera), triggered with PocketWizard II plus transceivers. In order to be able to focus in the dark I attached a 580EX speedlite on my camera...
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Tags: 50mm f/1.4, 580exII, action, children, dragging the shutter, experimental, experimentation, Light Painting, long exposures, motion, off camera flash, play, pocket wizards, Portrait, portraiture, San Diego, southern california, spontaneous acts of creativity
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Posted in Weddings
Photographs from Jeremy and Gisenyi’s wedding at a private estate in Julian California created on September 26th, 2009 by San Diego photographer, Chris Keeney
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Tags: 16-35mm, 2009, 24-70mm, 580exII, 70-200mm, 85mm, brides, California, Canon EOS 5D, celebrate, friendly, happy, Julian, Photographer, Photography, Portraits, San Diego, smile, SoCal, southern california, Wedding
San Diego photographer, Chris Keeney’s graffiti mural art portrait session with Culture Shock hip hop dancer and director of Mighty Shock, Cheyenne. High energy color and black and white photos of her dancing in front of a painted wall by graffiti writer, Romali Licudan.
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Tags: 16-35mm, 580exII, action, black-and-white, bw, California, Dancer, dancing, Graffiti Art, headshot, high contrast, Hip-Hop Culture, mural, on-location, pocket wizards, Portraits, Romali Licudan, San Diego, Wescott Halo Softbox, Wide Angle
I recently invented a simple and low cost do-it-yourself (DIY) snoot made from a 3 x 24″ mailing tube, tennis ball can caps/lids and black matte spray paint. Before this I had been experimenting with a soda/beer can koozie (pictured below) and realized that the mailing tubes I was using for another project fit...
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Tags: 580exII, 5D, beer koozie snoot, canon, Chris Keeney Photography, colored-gels, create, diffuser, DIY, do-it-yourself, experiment, explore, flash, green, Homemade, hot shoe flash, inexpensive, invention, red, snoot, strobe, strobes
