Vows Renewed

Harold and Mary Boorne celebrated their 50th anniversary on Saturday. The family had a wonderful party at Banchetti's Banquet Hall in Amherst where the anniversary couple renewed their wedding vows. We were fortunate enough to be chosen to photograph this happy event for them and had a great time doing it. Afterwards we photographed many different family groupings and some candids at the party to give them a great selection of images to remember it by.

Holy Cow !

Today's economy is nose driving drastically. People are cutting their budgets to make ends meet. Gas prices are sky rocketing, along with food and utility costs. No one knows where this will lead us, except maybe the poor house. We are constantly hearing stories about how newlyweds can't afford the rising costs of a wedding. Articles in magazines on how to save, save save. We believe that every new bride deserves a great wedding and great wedding images. So The Portrait Gallery has slashed its wedding prices to give every bride the opportunity to get the best wedding memories possible. Check out our new pricing at:
http://theportraitgallery.homestead.com/Weddingpackages.html
and see the savings.

Time is running out!

June is Passport Photo Month

The Portrait Gallery will do your passport pictures. During the month of June you can get a 50% discount on passport pictures. Just make your appointment ( 283-0303 )and give the promotional code:
PAS-50
and receive your discount. This promotional offer is only valid for the month of June. Your passport photos are 100% guaranteed.

Is bigger better?

I took a field trip today to shoot some tree swallows. I borrowed a longer lens because I wanted to see how it compared to the 70-200 ED AF-S VR Nikkor lens that I had been using. These images were shot hand held with Nikon D3. I used Nikkor 300mm ED AF-S f.4 with 1.4X Kenko Teleplus pro 300 lens. On a full frame senor camera like mine this combination gives me 420 mm which is a lot more than the 200 mm I am used to. I was very impressed with the results and feel I didn't lose much resolution at all. I did notice the lens is slower focusing and it takes a little more patience to get sharp images.

Baltimore Oriole portrait. Today finally produced results. Our subject co operated nicely with a pleasing pose. I measured the ambient light and set the meter accordingly. I than added fill light from camera right and rim light from behind to add background separation. Nikon D3, 300 mm plus 1.4 TC.

Nate

Nathan and his parents stopped by the other day and I caught this expression. You can just imagine what his thoughts are here. I think , " Grandpa, I own you "

Today I moved the feeder closer to our blind and I am starting to fine tune how I want to portray this bird. Morning light seems best for this location. Today the male dominated the feeder and I grabbed this quick shot of him. Click on image to enlarge.