A recent thread has brought to my attention that our work has been missed by a few, so here are a couple of shots from this summer.

This was an interesting attempt to capture some night images in our backyard, above-ground (aka redneck) pool. Lighting consisted of a camera mounted fill flash and two floating flashes pointed down into the water in Tupperware containers. These I taped some string to and then taped the string to the side of the pool so they wouldn't migrate.

There was also a 60-watt incandescent lamp at the edge of the pool to provide light for focusing. This I shot over top of. Most of the shots were trash, but a few came out pretty well. Most of the keepers were shot at F5.6, 1/13th second exposure, ISO 1250. The long exposure allowed the modeling lamp to fill in a bit more of the model, and of course add blur, LOL. All the shots were manual focus and hand-held.

I should add that I shifted the hue of blue in a few of them to get the purple tone to the water.

My wife had recently stopped a regimen of chemotherapy and was starting to grow her back. Nightly swims in the warm water were almost a ritual at that point and gave us the idea for trying to capture some images there. I'm not sure what the neighbors thought, but they've always been pretty supportive. I have to tell you having a pool light up with flashes this way looks very strange, probably stranger from my neighbor's deck.