Happy Holidays :)

Hello everyone, I'm wishing you all a wonderful thanksgiving, and a great holiday season. Drive carefully for all of you that are traveling today and over the weekend! I'm going to stuff myself with turkey in t-minus 31 minutes :D.

Richie

New Location Discoveries - Great for Fall Portraits!

Rob - Park
Originally uploaded by West Coast - Rich Grieco

After lunch on Sunday, me and Rob (my slave labor assistant/brother) went up to PV to check out some of the parks I remembered as a kid. I ended up making a strange phone call to my Mom, asking if she remembered what park I was trying to remember, you know, the one with rocks and leaves and trees and lots of shade... ? Oh, and Dogs. My memory has a funny way of fragmenting so that I only remember a few picture like images, and in this case - rocks and leaves and dogs were the images I remembered. I'm sure that I had been to this park plenty of times before but, she got it right on her first guess and me and Robbie found our way without a problem. It was fairly close to what I remembered, except being somewhat smaller.... But nevertheless, Its a great park! I was very surprised by the number of places I could just sit Rob down and get great light! This picture, obviously isn't a conventional type of portrait lighting, but I like it - It works for me. I could have bumped up the light on his face with a reflector too, but I didn't have one handy since we were sort of wingin' it. Anyway, I found another park too, which I wasn't too impressed with but would work in a pinch. Shoot me an email if you'd like to set up a session here, or anywhere else for that matter :). Peace.

This was also taken there, on a little bridge down by a walking path. Cool little thing, you should check it out! BTW everyone, I'm still giving away free 8x10's for those of you that sign up before the end of November :). Remember, Fall only lasts so long, and I know that you're going to want Holiday Family portraits for those Holiday Cards... Right??? Of course you do! Email me for details :)!

(This has just been added to my gear bag)

Well. I hope all of you appreciate how much money I just spent to make photo's of you look about 1000% better :). This is the Canon 70-200mm 2.8L IS lens, the cost is up there in the range of small cars - and should make for some really impressive photographs! It ranks up there are one of the best and most professionally used lenses on the market in the Canon family, and I have a lot of expectations for it. I've used one at work, and even though the lens is all beat up and not babied in any sense of the word, it still functions great and produces fantastic images.

Its going to be my primary portrait lens, while 50mm is about what the human eye see's, this focal length (70-200) is great for people. I decided on this lens specifically because it had a f/2.8 constant aperture, which will create a really pretty background blur (also called Bokeh). I'll get it Monday if the shipping Co. follows through, very, very excited.


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On another note, I will be giving away 4 free Pro Matboard mounted 8x10 prints this month to those that sign up for a Individual or family package (That would be $100 otherwise!) . To get this offer please sign up by November 30th, 2008.

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