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Zachary’s 100 Portraits

matthewcoughlin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:48:45 +0000

Does anyone remember celebrating the 100th day of school back when they were a kid? I do! Well, my son Zachary was tasked with a first grade project of making a poster board with 100 objects of his choosing. Most kids would go for cheerios, pennies, paper clips, or cotton balls. Nope, not Zach. He wanted 100 pictures of himself. So we setup some lights in the garage with some white seamless and started snapping away. Toward the last 30 frames, I think Zach bumped the light aiming at the background and it turned more towards him. I didn’t notice while shooting because I was just firing away as he goofed off. Bottom line, we had fun and he turned in a cool and unique project.

All 100 pictures in 17 seconds.

These were some of my favorites from the 100 frames we snapped.

And here is a iPhone shot courtesy of my wife (whose feet are featured at the bottom)

Family Photo Fun: Hanna Lester

matthewcoughlin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:10:33 +0000

We took a trip up to Columbus, Ga the week of Christmas to visit with some family. While I was in town, a few of younger cousins that wanted to do a photoshoot with me. We found a pretty nice little area back behind the house in the woods. It was very overcast and rained off and on that day. I brought my softbox with a 430EXII and also used some natural light. We shot for about an hour and got some pretty fun images. This set is of my cousin Hanna. Hollywood better watch out, this girl knows how to strike a pose. Oh, and this 14 year old is a pretty kick @$$ soccer player too.

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I made sure to use some of that nice diffused natural light too.

And you can’t forget the indoor rock star with sunglasses shot

Pumpkin Patch 2011

matthewcoughlin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:53:43 +0000

Every year my wife and I look forward to picking out our Halloween pumpkins with the kids. This year we decided to go the distance and venture out to a real pumpkin patch so the kids can see that pumpkins don’t just pop up in the front of a church, they actually grow on a farm. We headed out to Jay, FL with Jenna’s mom (Mimi as the kids call her) for an afternoon in the country. When I saw the giant sunflowers, I couldn’t resist not using my lights. Enjoy.

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