Natural Curiosities

Natural Curiosities
Originally uploaded by Cody Lee Dopps

This is one of my favorites from the night with the Scribners. I spent so long dialing in the lights. A little tweak here and then a reposition there, then take it down and start all over.

The funny thing about this shot: You know, I came over there to take pictures of them just as practice. To get more comfortable with proficient with my lighting setup. When it came down to the actual shot, I thought that I didn't really want to do a straight on serious shot so I told Sara to go to the closet and pull out some of the weirdest close they had. "Get dressed up," I told her. At one point Shane even had these gross fake teeth in. All the while, I had set my camera up on a tripod with a good composition so i could concentrate on the lights. When I finally got the lights dialed in and once I figured I had gotten a good capture I took the camera off the tripod and did a few "freehand" shots (this being one of the last one's I took) and it wasn't until then that I actually read the title of the book on the coffee table.