It was a crazy year for me. My brother moved away with his new wife and I lost my father in October. I tried to stay busy most of the time and managed to meet quite a few interesting people along the way. It wasn't easy sifting through all the images to figure out my favorite portraits of the year. I also learned a thing or two about the opposite sex.

In no particular order:

[LeRolls]

Stunning....

Great work! Wonderful portrait photographer right here.

Thank you kindly.

[mcgregni]

Nice work if you can get it ! An inspiring selection with great lighting and flair !! Do you have any pull back shots showing the lighting gear and positioning, for us flash geeks ?

[Ex Finn.]

All great shots. If I had to pick... 1st and last.
Thanks for sharing.

[LeRolls]

Nice work if you can get it ! An inspiring selection with great lighting and flair !! Do you have any pull back shots showing the lighting gear and positioning, for us flash geeks ?

Thanks for the kind words! Flash geeks? Didn't know there were too many of those around. Most shooters I run into are scared of their speedlights. I use a simple setup with one 540FGZ II attached to the hotshoe via a flash sync cord and a lightsphere diffuser so nothing fancy or worthy of a behind the scenes shot. I hold the camera in one hand and the flash in the other.

[Reed]

There's a lot of us in here Do you use that lightsphere warming caps on it? I had a lightsphere difuser but never liked it. I mostly use Roundflash-dish(with cord/radio) and Roundflash diffusers.

[Storm Chaser]

Christopher, sorry for your loss first of all. And family will always be close in mind and heart.

Thank you for sharing these awesome portraits! If I may ask, are you using a parabolic, softboxes?

Just simply stunning images!

Thanks, Brian


Sorry, got my answer on post above. Lightsphere & 540GZII. Thanks

[alamo5000]

Thanks for the kind words! Flash geeks? Didn't know there were too many of those around. Most shooters I run into are scared of their speedlights. I use a simple setup with one 540FGZ II attached to the hotshoe via a flash sync cord and a lightsphere diffuser so nothing fancy or worthy of a behind the scenes shot. I hold the camera in one hand and the flash in the other.

In other words he's good at what he does

You seriously are one of my role models here on the forum.

[Mike L]

So many great portraits, I'm not surprised you had so much trouble choosing favourites.

[JACOBY]

Beautiful work beautiful girls Thank You

[LeRolls]

There's a lot of us in here Do you use that lightsphere warming caps on it? I had a lightsphere difuser but never liked it. I mostly use Roundflash-dish(with cord/radio) and Roundflash diffusers.

I generally don't care for the colored caps since I find it fairly easy to manipulate skin tones during post processing and I like to shoot at times of the day when the ambient light is already at the desired temperature. I took a look at the Roundflash products and they seem interesting. There are some fine photos in their gallery but the results seem a bit overly flashy for my tastes. I like my shots to look a bit more natural except for certain looks and the Lightsphere does that for me while still being super portable. I plan on setting up a studio in my house so I may look into using their dish for that.

Christopher, sorry for your loss first of all. And family will always be close in mind and heart.

Thank you for sharing these awesome portraits! If I may ask, are you using a parabolic, softboxes?

Just simply stunning images!

Thanks, Brian


Sorry, got my answer on post above. Lightsphere & 540GZII. Thanks

Thank you. I appreciate your kind and sensitive words. I feel my father's presence with me always.

In other words he's good at what he does

You seriously are one of my role models here on the forum.

Practice makes perfect. I'm a firm believer in working with what you have and making the most of it. I've never been anyone's role model before. Feels kind of nice.

So many great portraits, I'm not surprised you had so much trouble choosing favourites.

Beautiful work beautiful girls Thank You

Much appreciated.

[Reed]

I generally don't care for the colored caps since I find it fairly easy to manipulate skin tones during post processing and I like to shoot at times of the day when the ambient light is already at the desired temperature. I took a look at the Roundflash products and they seem interesting. There are some fine photos in their gallery but the results seem a bit overly flashy for my tastes. I like my shots to look a bit more natural except for certain looks and the Lightsphere does that for me while still being super portable. I plan on setting up a studio in my house so I may look into using their dish for that.

Well, their website is not really good example of what you can get with that modifiers. Mostly becouse there is to much postproduction on that pictures. There are some pictures with Dish on stand and off camera corded round flash in my signature galery