Bill Weaver Photographers

This past year I donated some shooting sessons to Circus Juventas as part of their annual fund raising gala. One of the lucky winners asked me to photograph her 5 year old during the spring "little Kids" performance.

I really get a kick out these kids and how they so willing embrace the obvious alternative nature of circus performance. They get far more out participating in this program than they would most other programs. Kids in Circus Juventas programs get a wide range of training from athletic to dance to performance any one of which would greatly help a child’s development but when combined the result is amazing.

A few more from the performance…

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I did a recent PR shoot for Circus Juventas  to use in the advertising for their up coming show. Katie the model was suspended from the ceiling of the big top to look like she was flying. I love working  with these guys it is always fun!

She will be cut out and placed into a larger graphic image so capturing the feeling of a ghost bride searching for her lost love was important. I opted to use my SB-800s with 2 small Chimera soft boxes and California Sunbounce reflector placed as a gobo in front of part of the light to the left of the image. I set a 2 stop difference between the two lights with brightest on the right of the photo. This created nice shadows to enhance the spookiness.

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Sunday we had the pleasure to photograph the newborn (8wk) son of Andy and Kim in their home. We photographed their wedding almost 2 years ago and they are the first of our recent clients to begin a family.
We enjoy photographing babies and kids so we had a great time with this guy and Mom and Dad. We used a different technique for the session. I mounted 2 of camera strobes (Nikon SB-800s) on light stands one with a soft box and another with a Flip-it flash diffuser. We also used a California Sun Bounce reflector mounted to a stand as a partial gobo to turn the softbox into both a hair light and a kicker light. The technique worked great…no need for heavy studio lights!! We also used a black background and the sheepskin seen in the photo above.

Here are some more photos of the Babe. Oh almost forgot….I processed the images as duo tones using different toning techniques to to increase and/or decrease contrast.

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One of my all time favorite feeds is Daily Candy a spunky and edgy site chock full of trends.The best part is…it is illustrated with watercolor  that brings and extra fun element.

Anyway they recently had a section on earth friendly weddings it is worth a look.

Enjoy!!

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