Three models in lingerie - iPhone application shoot

Yesterday I spent 14 hours in the studio shooting over 7300 images for a soon to be release iPhone application. I'll post more info about the application when it gets released, but these sample images of Shannon, Chrissy, and Krys below should make you want to download to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Photographing children takes a different set of skills.

Last month I agreed to photograph a coworker's young son at Prescott Park in Portsmouth. Daniel was such a ball of energy.

I learned two important lessons that day...

1. Use the fastest shutter speed you can manage, with the smallest aperture for greater depth of field. Kids are fast.. I mean real fast. You have to use whatever you can to avoid blurry images.

2. If you want to use bubbles to get the child to look where you want, make sure you are downwind, otherwise they will follow the bubbles away from you. Kids are unpredictable. Although I thought he would head toward mom, who was blowing the bubbles, Daniel had a lot more fun chasing the bubbles already floating in the wind. This gave me some great shots of the back of his head.

The was a fun, but humbling experience. Photographing children is something every portrait photographer should try at least once.