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It was a great week here, so I hope it was for you, as well. I am a bit under the weather, so it was a slow week for new videos, but here’s what’s shaking…
I’ve been working with a very cool Phone-to-Camera Satechi Bluetooth Smart Trigger that I’ll be reviewing very soon!
If you were lurking in the forest this week, you may have seen me experimenting. Is that a scary, mean bear in the forest? Nope. Just SnapChick. 
I’ve been scanning a ton of my old 35mm film and slides with this scanner. It will scan 120 film and transparencies, as well. Oh, and it does larger prints and documents, too, but I’m in it for the film!
Everyone except us Nikon 1 users who know about Nikon’s best kept secret hated this new lens release.
Dragonfly! with the Nikon V1 + FT-1 Adapter + 70-200 f2.8 + 1.7X TC
We got all funny, sad, weird and philosophical talking about this video.
Some of us missed our awesome old-school vinyl records.
And we all went on a Flashback together with some moody, selective lighting!
I recently found myself in the forest with a couple cameras so I did some experimenting! I experiment all the time with my cameras – new techniques, new looks… Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. But I always learn something. 
This time I messed around with panning…
I also found some interesting areas to play with…
And some cool backgrounds…
VIPs, log in to read more about my time in the forest, plus see a gallery of images and a video where I talk technical specifics and tell you the story behind some of the photos!
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As always, I’ve had a busy week! Here’s the rundown…
SnapChick’s New Paper Backdrops – from Unboxing to Photos I posted my first photos with my new roll paper backdrops! This post included a video where I unboxed and set up the backdrops and talked about how I could get different looks from each one. I showed you photos of each look in the video. Plus, VIPs have an extra video where I go more in-depth about each of the setups (and a full gallery of photos of course)!
SnapChick Reviews the Grand Canyon I posted a review of the Grand Canyon, which included LOTS of pictures that I’ve amassed in my years of visiting my favorite place in the world.
Northern Arizona I went to Flagstaff, AZ last weekend and had a blast. I hiked so much and had such good food. While I was there, I filmed a question-and-answer video on Slate Mountain. This one was fun because if was about everything EXCEPT photography. I also took my First Sunday photos!
Chroma Key Backdrops – SnapChick VIP Question of the Day For VIPs, I answered a question about chroma key backdrops – what I use and what I find is more helpful than chroma key for still photography.
Life, the Universe, and the Digital Age, Part 1 I’ve been thinking a lot about the process of photography – specifically, MY process. I got pretty philosophical for this one!
Rewind This morning, I posted a rewind photo to my Facebook page. It’s from a post from 2 years ago called Double Trouble! I was experimenting with using a mirror. It makes me want to do some more reflection portraits…
On the personal front, I got my teeth cleaned, which I always love. And I lightened my hair! I’m so fickle when it comes to hair color.
Up Next You will be seeing some more photos I took while in Northern AZ last weekend. I experimented with some action shots in the woods! I gave you a sneak peek on my Facebook page earlier this week! You’ll also be seeing more of my film cameras…
I bought some new seamless roll paper backdrops and was eager to get them set up in the studio so I could take some portraits with them! So I unboxed them and took photos right away. Here’s a sample but you can see a bunch of the photos I took in the video below.
Technical Details:
D800 + 85mm f/1.8
Aperture- f/4
Shutter Speed- 1/250
ISO- 100
VIPs, log in to see the photos from the shoot plus a video where I get into the technical details of each setup!
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I take impromptu portraits all the time – whenever I find myself struck by inspiration, I shoot! This portrait session was inspired by the forest I was driving through! Here’s one from the shoot…
Technical Details:
D800 + 85mm f/1.8
Aperture- f/4
Shutter Speed- 1/160
ISO- 800
…and here’s where I talk about taking this type of photo!
VIPs, log in to see the full gallery of images and a more detailed video about the shoot!
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I took a trip to a riparian preserve to take some delightfully disheveled photos, and then I took more in my studio! Here are some sample shots and a video where I talk about the shoot.
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