January 1st, 2011 | by admin
In 5 days I’m out of Minnesota. I’m going to Hawaii to shoot a wedding and then have a family vacation. This will be my daughter’s first time on a plane! An 8 hour plane right! Thankfully, we have tons of things for her to do! I’m also happy we have someone coming to stay at the house to care for our dogs too so we didn’t have to put them in a boarding kennel! That makes me happy!
If you need to get ahold of me find me on Facebook.
I’ve needed this vacation for quite some time. I hope to shoot just for myself when I’m there too. I am buried in 3 feet of snow here in MN so it will be so nice to get in the warm weather. I really hope that 2011 is a lot happier year for us. We just lost my 95 year old grandma the day after Christmas and so I am still quite sad from that. I am hoping to come back to MN rejuvinated. It’s been a long year for me.
When I do get back I will be announcing workshops etc. Here’s to a very happy 2011.
Do you have any New Year’s Resolutions? I do. Lots of them and I hope to stick to them too! I hope you all have a wonderful day.
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December 31st, 2010 | by admin
50.00 off on the online book. code is newyear
If you do not get an immediate download please email me.
Happy New Year. 
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December 20th, 2010 | by admin
The other day I mentored another MN photographer and it was so much fun! We had a blast especially with one of the little models we had come in. We worked on studio lighting! I thought the photos are super cute and thought I would share them!
Thank you Angie for coming down and letting me mentor you!
I hope everyone has a great Christmas! I can’t believe it’s already here on Saturday!
I hope we find our lost presents!! Somehow we lost two of our daughter’s presents!
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December 2nd, 2010 | by admin
I came across some photos of my friend Jordi that I photographed in Utah and just wanted to you show you pretty much the same shot using just natural light and then ocf.
I love shooting both ways. They give me different looks and variety. I do feel like though when I shoot OCF I can shoot in pretty much any type of condition. It allows me to shoot in like funky shade with crazy shadows on the subject’s face etc.
Anyway, just wanted to show you the difference!
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November 29th, 2010 | by admin
Here are two shots, literally taken one right after the other. All I did was change the power on my light.
I went from f-5.6 to f-11 on these shots so I turned my light power up.
My camera was at ISO 100 and SS 125 on all of the photos.
When you turn the power up on the Alien Bee or whatever light you are using, the more power you have the more you are going to drown out your Ambient Light.
Now, if I were to turn the power down lower than 5.6 there would more ambient light.
When I was learning how to do OCF, I literally had to go out and shoot. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing for a long time and then one night I was shooting this girl and it finally clicked.
I had been studying my settings in bridge that day and I finally realized that the more power I have on my light the less ambient I’m going to have and the lower power on my light the more ambient I will have.
There are different variations too though which confuse people but it does take practice and patience!
Wohoo! I just went back to my photos and found a shot that was at 4.5. See, now look at the difference between the 5.6 and the 4.5 shot!
Hope this helps!!!
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November 22nd, 2010 | by admin
Today only it’s $50.00 instead of 95. The code is turkey. gobble gobble.
One on One Mentoring.
The first 3 people to email me will get three hours of online mentoring for 225. After today it will be 350.00.
We will go over anything you want to cover whether it’s OCF, studio lighting, if you need help with critique on your images, anything.
If you are signing up to do this, please email me specifically what you want to work on and dates that work for you to do this.
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November 21st, 2010 | by admin
Tomorrow I will do a one day sale on the OCF Online Book. I will post a code on Facebook etc.
Workshops: Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a workshop. I have had many inquiries just trying to nail down a few places to go in the spring.
One to One Mentoring: I am now starting this from the comfort of your home! If you are interested in doing some mentoring with me please email me at ali@rockthatocf.com
I already have a few gals signed up! It’s going to be awesome!!
We can go over pretty much anything you like: OCF, processing, studio lighting, marketing, critique on your work etc. I thought this would be an awesome option especially for the us stay at home mom’s who have a hard time leaving the house.
I will do a sale tomorrow too on the first 3 people that sign up. You have to watch the blog/facebook.
Finally, this week, I’m walking the Turkey Trot. I am so excited to do this yet very emotional over it. I have almost reached my 500.00 goal for the fundraiser.
And I honestly have to put out a huge shout out to COLOR INC in Michigan.
They are awesome. Seriously awesome. If you haven’t checked them out as a photo lab do so!
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November 11th, 2010 | by admin
Today, I just signed up to do a 5K Walk on Thanksgiving day to help raise money for IRIS. Some of you may not know what IRIS is. It’s a support group for families who have lost children. Infants Remembered in Silence. Many of you know that I lost my second baby April 3rd at 12 weeks pregnant and many of you know that I was completely devastated by this. I have decided to do this walk as out of shape as I am but I am going to do it not only for my baby but for the many many women who emailed me supporting me thru my loss. I have met so many amazing women that have lost their babies as well and I am walking for them.
Brekke, Michelle, Nichole, Rayni and the countless women I have talked to over the last 6 months this is for you and your families too. I am tearing up here writing this because it means so much to me. This means so much to me.
I am blogging about this asking for you to support me on this race. Not only emotionally but financially. I have never done anything like this in my life and have never asked anyone for money.
I am asking you now to donate to Team Max on the IRIS website and help raise money for IRIS so they can continue to support more women and families as they deal with the tragic loss of a child.
IRIS was there for me. I am so thankful and I want to give back.
Here is a direct link of where you can send a donation through paypal.
Even if it’s only 10.00 you will make a difference.
Thank you so much. I am so thankful to all of the people who emailed me. I want to walk for your babies too. Let’s raise money to help other women who are going through the same things we have gone through. Let’s not be silent anymore. Let’s as a photography community have a voice and say we support and we are there for each other.
SUPPORT TEAM MAX
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November 8th, 2010 | by admin
I am finally starting to catch up with my client work so I have a little time to devote to my poor neglected blog. I really need to post more! Please if you aren’t my friend on Facebook add me. I am on there more than any other place.
Anyway, the workshops have been awesome. The women have been awesome too! I’ve made amazing friendhsips in Illinois, Sacramento and Utah.
Here are a few photos from the workshops. And a couple of my friend Jordi out in Utah. Oh and a few from my studio lighting course from last week.
This one was taken around 3 p.m. using an AB 1600. f/16 1/200
When you are shooting down into the ground, don’t put your light power super high otherwise it will kill your ambient light.
This is a backdrop from Becky Gregory (intuition backgrounds) They are all beautiful backgrounds!
I will be contacting the people who have emailed me about a workshop in Hawaii very soon. I am going to be there January 5th thru the 14th. I am going for a family vacation and also to shoot my brother’s wedding but would totally do a one day workshop!
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October 12th, 2010 | by admin
October 28, I am going to be teaching in Pleasant Grove Utah a half day of studio lighting and a half day of Off Camera Flash. I’ve had a bunch of girls ask me to teach them studio lighting so I figured why not. It’s very short notice but it will be fun. It’s ONLY 265 for either one or 500 for both.
If you are interested in attending email asap to get your spot.
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