Hewett Photography Blog

We’ve mentioned our friends Evan and Nicola on the blog before, here.  As we said, they were expecting their first child in early July, but Genevieve had other plans.  She arrived on Friday June 19th!  We’ve now done a couple of photo sessions with the three of them and are starting to build up a [...]

Jenn made this yummy cookie for the neighborhood 4th of July parade/party today.  As it happened, Strobist is running his summer Boot Camp at the moment and the second assignment was on food, so this was a happy convergence of lighting practice and sweets! And, since the winner actually gets some nice stuff I figured [...]

Our good friend (and Tom’s best man) Bill needed a headshot.  He’s recently been elected Secretary of the AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) and they needed a picture for the website and printed newsletter. This is a simple, 3-light setup.  First, we hung a white bedsheet from the ceiling (there’s no room in our [...]

David Hobby over at Strobist.com posted a tutorial on making water drop photography using a single speedlight last week, and I thought I’d give it a try.  I’ve tried this stuff before with little success, and the tutorial really helped explain why what I had done in the past didn’t work… I highly recommend checking [...]