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Shuey Entertaining

A good kegger doesn’t always just happen.  Sometimes the right variables are finessed to create better than usual results.  This was one of those times, and with some help from the cold weather, everyone was forced to cram into the house and be more social.  It wasn’t the biggest keg, but what really mattered was everyone had a great time.  Many more came after I couldn’t hold the camera straight anymore.  Sorry, you’ll have to come earlier to get on this bandwagon.

 

Party Photos

 

Keg Party

 

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Strobe Prank

 I gave a flash to Shuey to experiment with.  He pulled some pranks on people and luckily nothing was damaged in a fit of anger.  If you look around the room, especially at the ceiling, you can see the peach tint from light reflecting off his skin.  He literally nuked the hell out of this guy’s face. 

 

Flash Prank

 

Party Pictures

 Enough of that, I’ll hold the flashes myself.

 

Keg Party Pictures

 

Kegger Pictures

 

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Girls at kegger

 

Bathroom Line

 Waiting in line for the bathroom.  This chick wondered what the hell we were up to.  I wasn’t about to leave my camera laying around so I continued to shoot a couple random shots without warning.  I entertain myself quite well thank you.

 

Bathroom Picture

 

Keg Party

 

Drunk Girls

 

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 To smile or not?  The never ending question.

 

Playing Pool

 

Party

 

Keg Cup

 I had crappy shadows all night because I didn’t hold the flash high enough.  It’s honestly not easy holding a heavy camera with one hand and your beer and a flash in the other, while trying to move around the room.

 

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 Chad came and posed for a money shot.  Uhh, you know what I mean.  He’s trying to push forward in his photography post-processing career.

 

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 Lucky for me, models tend to show up wherever I go… if I don’t bring them.  On this fine day I didn’t have to deal with any models that aren’t approved.

 

Crazy Joe

Crazy Joe practiced his disco dancing, I think he’ll win the comp this year.

 

Flying

 

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Playing Pool at Party



gSaenz Said:
Sunday, November 11th, 2007 at 4:56 pm

Have you tried pointing the flash straight up with a diffuser? i think this may help soften your shadow’s.


Nick Said:
Sunday, November 11th, 2007 at 8:00 pm

Yeah, I usually use bounce flash in these situations. This time I was testing a different 2 flash setup. I had one flash bounced off the ceiling and the other one hand held, firing directly at subjects. I wanted the intensity of direct flash combined with the softness of bounced flash. I should have turned down the power on my direct flash and turned up the bounce. I liked the results in general, just not so much the shadows. Should have mounted the direct flash on a monopod to get the flash higher and shadows lower to the ground.


Nessa Said:
Monday, November 19th, 2007 at 6:48 pm

Love the picture of Joe lol


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