that wagon

I caught a glimpse of this wagon late last year as it drove down my street.  I sat at the window waiting for it to come back down the street, but it never did.

A couple weeks ago, I heard tire rubbing on fender as I was finishing the dishes that were in the sink.  I darted to the front door, and sure enough, it was that wagon!

Nicole was getting ready to leave for a couple hours which meant that I was in charge of Nova.  I moved from window to window looking for the wagon to come down the street again.  After what felt like years, I saw it coming down the street towards the house.  I flew out the front door and flagged it down.

I introduced myself and informed the driver that I wanted to shoot his wagon.  We chatted it up a little bit, and he was on his way, with no real plan made for a shoot.

Thanks to social media, plans were made via Facebook to set up a shoot on Saturday night after the “Profiling” photo session was completed.

I now have two new friends (one Polish, one Puerto Rican) and a full understanding of what “twerking” is because of my interest in this wagon.

Onto the photos…

Hey, this is private property you are on…

Profiling

I have wanted to do this shot ever since I seen it on Flickr.  I finally got around to doing it and it turned out been much easier than I thought it was going to be.

The first thing I did was make a snoot out of a Whole Foods paper bag to focus the flash on the face of the subject.  The snooted Canon 430 EX was placed about 4 feet directly in front of the subjects face and was set to 1/16th power.

The camera was directly to the right of the subject and about 4 feet away.  The backdrop was a piece of black felt from the craft store.

Nova was sleeping, so I used that time to take Nicole’s and my photo.  Once Nova woke up, we took her down while she was still in the process of waking up so she would be calm while she had to sit still for her photo.

All in all, 7 photos were taken.  1 of me, 3 of Nicole, and 3 of Nova.  Nova had no idea what was going on and just stared directly at the snoot, so that helped out a lot.

All photos were taken at [ISO 400] [1/125/second] [f/9]

The three photos were post-processed in Lightroom and layered in Photoshop.