Attended a great seminar in San Francisco on creative use of on-camera flash with Neil van Niekerk. I love using natural light, but a professional photographer should be able to get the highest quality shots from any environment – so effective knowledge and use of flash is a must. (For me, effective flash shots are those where the viewer can’t tell flash was used…)
Here’s a few pics of Bethany, one of the great models, that I worked up in Photoshop. Couldn’t resist putting a few texture layers on the one shot just off Union Square!
Some of these outside shots used a Canon 580 flash bounced off a near-by building (say 15′ away) for effective fill-flash. Complete eye-opener!
An excellent session – opened my eyes to the use of on-camera flash and all things tupperware I’ll be making gels, foamie-things and practicing the techniques. Thanks Neil!

Love making grungy images!

Welcome to the tobeadored blog!
www.tobeadored.com is all about photography, created by husband and wife duo Mark and Maria Woods.

Maria is a freelance artist, illustrator and photographer with over 20 years’ experience in commercial art, and over 2000 licensed designs in greetings, children’s books, fine art prints and giftware. (You can find Maria’s artwork on many sites, such as Amazon.com just by searching for “Maria Woods”.)
Maria’s artwork is featured on www.mariawoods.com.

Together, we shoot wedding and boudoir photography, and this blog will show our work and projects.

If you’re an aspiring model, or a model looking for fresh folio images, please get in touch – we have lots of ideas for photo-shoots!