Mark Shaiken

Here is a water splash shot with my 200mm micro lens. For the lighting and setup, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc
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A Sunday with Katlyn and more lighting. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc
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Here is Chris again with his patented look. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc
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a shot of Sabrina from a Sunday shoot. Three light setup with Nikon SB900s, Westcott Apollo soft boxes and a vintage hat for fun. Full description at http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc
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I borrowed someone’s studio (I don’t have one) to take shots of a co-worker’s lovely daughter as we played around with looks and outfits (she brought 8 for 1.5 hours of shooting!). Here is one look we came up with – high key. For the lighting set up, http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc…[Read more]

Jenna again with an f/1.4 lens. For a fuller description, http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc
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Another simple shot of Jenna at the boardroom table. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc
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The eyes. For the larger image, go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc.
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I decided to try my hand at a urban grit portraiture and then decided to use a touch of HDR also. The results are here. I use NIK HDR Efex Pro. It is extremely easy to navigate and it offers subtle HDR effects as well as the usual HDR look. I really like the NIK products and they are seamless to use — I use them through Lightroom as plugins.…[Read more]

I spent the weekend photographing things (food) as it impacts water. I haver a series of shots at my flickr site: http://www.fllickr.com/photos/shakeskc along with some detailed explanations of how to do it. After trying this for weeks now, I turned to YouTube and found several videos that had parts of the technique I used. I also wrote a blog piece…[Read more]

I have a series of food photos at the moment the food product “hits the water.” Here is one. The explanation of the technique can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskd
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Same basic technique as in the prior lemon post. A complete description is at http://www.fllickr.com/photos/shakeskc
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Lots of lighting on this one. Three speedlights and some patience. For a long description of the lighting and the setup, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc.
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This is an HDR image, and if that isn’t enough processing, I played with in in CS5. What I did is explained at http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc. this may be the beginning of a weird photo weekend.
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In a black and white mood. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shakeskc
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