baseball is starting....

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Anonymous says:

Now that's a cool frame.

(03.17.11 @ 01:28 PM)
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Meet Maggie: SHG 2011 !


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Okay folks, way behind on the blog (we're talking 40+ sessions in the past 6 weeks and I've only blogged a few.  Sorry for the tardiness, I'll try to back post some in the future.  For now, might as well give a preview of this morning's edits.  Meet Kala, Sr from good ole Pleasant Plains.  


Julie Johnson says:

To everyone out there looking for a sincere AND easy to work with photographer - here ya go :-) Seeing these pics today about brought tears to my eyes as they are all so creative and well thought out. Mr. Shultz kept imagining different props they day we did this - and these were so worth the wait. Well worth the money and time.

(10.26.10 @ 04:03 PM)
Kyle Shultz says:

Well that's awfully nice Julie :) Thx much to you guys as well! Obviously, my job was easy this shoot :)

(10.26.10 @ 05:11 PM)
Rhonda Baskett says:

Very nice photos! WIll be hard to choose which ones, they all look very good.

(10.27.10 @ 09:03 AM)
Cheri McCafferty says:

These are some of the best senior pictures I have seen so far....awesome!! Kala, you look absolutely amazing. Love all the creative ideas ~ great job Schultz Photography!

(10.27.10 @ 09:10 AM)
Patty Stoutamyer says:

Great variety of backgrounds. Looks like Kala could be a professional model.

(10.27.10 @ 09:12 AM)
Lisa says:

Beautiful!!!!

(10.27.10 @ 09:15 AM)
Kelley Shaw says:

These pics are beautiful!!! I cannot believe this is the little first grader who used to come running down the street to play with Karley!!! loved all of the poses!!!

(10.27.10 @ 09:20 AM)
Pat Lanctot says:

I love Kala's pictures!! They are really great and ingenious as well. How could you choose - just get them all.

(10.27.10 @ 09:28 AM)
Mary Reed says:

Amazing Pictures, Julie you have a beautiful daughter

(10.27.10 @ 09:34 AM)
Heidi Allen says:

Pics turned out great & I love the creative backgrounds. Definately, order the 1st closeup shot & the car.

(10.27.10 @ 10:09 AM)
Alyson Hughes says:

I love all of the pictures. Kala is too gorgeous in all of them to pick just one. I like the 3rd picture, but the first one is awesome also. Great job on the photo's! Congratuations to Kala, also.

(10.27.10 @ 10:27 AM)
Coni Rogers says:

Very nice pics..Everyone of the shots really show off Kala's eyes and beauty. I wish I would have had you take my son's pics when he graduated a few year back.

(10.27.10 @ 04:02 PM)
Tracy Weiters says:

Love the ones in the jeans; love the jewels you know I'm all about the bling!

(10.28.10 @ 09:14 AM)
Joyce says:

Awesome pics Julie!

(10.28.10 @ 04:50 PM)
Roger says:

Incredible photos! The 1st closeup shot is beatiful and the one where Kala's leaning on the car makes me think that she should seriously look into doing some modeling.

(10.28.10 @ 06:06 PM)
Robin Johnson says:

Great pictures. They look like they should be CD covers! Very professional.

(10.28.10 @ 06:50 PM)
Rick says:

Outstanding photos, looks like you made the right choice in photographers. I remember going through this last year and you have a tough job ahead of you. Knowing you, the choice is easy, just take all of them!

(10.30.10 @ 01:33 PM)
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Sarah is the IL State High Jump Champ from Springfield High School.  Last night we went out to her mats at the track to grab some shots. When we arrived, there were a couple things to work around:

1) A Freshman football game.  HA!  Not really the best backdrop :)
2) Busy backgrounds of spectators, houses, cars, fences, scoreboards, a bit of everything really.  

I was envisioning Sarah arching over the bar with an open sky sunset in the background.  Under exposing the ambient by a stop or two and bringing in some flash to carve her out of the scene. That wasn't happening folks. Too much in the way of the horizon.  

Considering the ever changing backgrounds of the two points above, I cranked up my Profoto D1's all the way to see what would happen to the ambient.  I kind of chuckled at the result first, but then decided to stick with it.  It being that it totally killed the ambient.  

Thanks to Bryan Throckmorton for shooting some behind the scenes pics and for helping me load / unload a bunch of equipment.  

So, here are some of the setups.  We started shooting around 4:30, so we had a little over an hour of daylight.  Everything is pretty normal: gridded reflectors, gridded strip boxes (outer baffle only to harden it up a bit), etc.  Only thing unconventional was a bed sheet on a 6x6 ft scrim jim frame.  Yep, it's a ghetto way of getting a big light source. Thank Joe McNally.

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Sarah does back flips to warm up :)
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Was pretty much just metering lights here for her to go over bar, though ended up using one of the shots.
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I'm actually in the end zone :)
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The bed sheet soft box:
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By killing the ambient, I meant killing it...as in black.
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The fence barely shows up, but not the fans and houses, so I just kept them at full power.  Might as well experiment...
SarahMaxonATH-2012.jpgThe bed sheet pic:
SarahMaxonATH-2014.jpgSun was setting behind trees.  Dialed the D1's down to half power to get some sky.  Sara has her eyes set at 6 ft. to clear this spring.  Which means she can jump over me.  Nice.
SarahMaxonATH-2016.jpgAnd a couple shots of her warming up with stretches and backflips.
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Thanks to Sarah! I look forward to doing it again...can't believe how fast an hour of shooting goes by, especially when messing with studio strobes the entire time.  Need lighting assistants :)  Next time there's a couple tweaks that will put them up a level.  For the first go around, we'll take it!
Karin says:

You. Freaking. Rock.

(10.26.10 @ 12:39 PM)
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