Daniel Tyack» San Diego Photography

Sherry the Yoga Mamma

danieltyack — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:20:15 +0000

Yesterday was my birthday. It was low key, I didn’t really do any real work, I had awesome Sushi for dinner, I modded another flash and built an external battery box, had a fine cigar AND got to take some pictures! (obviously those are in no particular order)

Sherry is my wife’s Yoga instructor and she is a champ! She has a little home studio here in Jamul and she can really bring it from what I hear. My wife practically comes home limping some times yet still loves it!

While I was setting up a couple lights I was telling Sherry that I never like to “airbrush” people, I like to capture who they really are. She bluntly told me “Daniel, I have been down a lot of roads in my life and not all of them have been paved”. Did I mention she is a champ So here she is, the real Sherry. I thought she looked great!

I lit Sherry with an Alienbees AB800 Ring Flash and 2 Yongnuo YN460s for hair lights.

The Burmeisters

danieltyack — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:37:58 +0000

We took some food over to the Burmeisters house this evening. Dinner was fabulous and the kiddo was in top form letting us all check him out. He even posed for some fun pictures. I didn’t capture a “Magic” shot of the whole family but hey, I’m still learning, it was fun playing with some lights

The Burmeisters!

Kisses from mom.

Micah showing off.

When on a shoot Adam requires a cool glass of milk!

The Molinas

danieltyack — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:44:20 +0000

Some long time friends came up yesterday for a BBQ, hanging out and Photo Shoot. We wandered over to Indian Hills Camp, which adjoins our property, and took some fun pseudo western pictures. This literally was my first photo shoot with a family, or people for that matter, so I was excited and hoping they would turn our great. I said something like “If I can get 5 good shots from this I’ll be happy.”, luckily I got more. I was shooting on Manual and experimented with an off camera flash a bit so I wasn’t working too fast. I was out of my comfort zone so I was glad to have some good friends that knew what I was all about and forgiving.

The shoot was fun, hanging out was great and the massive amounts of Tri Tip and Deer (that Tony shot) were fabulous!

Enjoy the Pictures, you can find the whole set here.

I Take Pictures

danieltyack — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:29:02 +0000

I just recently bought a DSLR, a Canon 400D to be exact. I never really intended to get into photography but I sort of just stumbled upon it.

I had a big model shoot coming up for Urban Sun Tanning and I was in charge. I wasn’t taking pictures but the weight success or failure rested on my shoulders. Since I had never done something like that before I figured I better know what the heck I was doing. I jumped on Youtube and started learning as much as I could. I learned about lighting, composition, gear etc. Pretty soon I knew all the basics and didn’t even have a camera. I realized that all the great photographers were doing was manipulating light and composing great images. That’s easier said than done considering theres are about 5 million variables and you still have to have raw talent to bring the magic. Anyway, I took it as a challenge.

The day before the shoot my friend started advertising a camera he had for sale. I bought it. Now I take pictures. I wouldn’t consider myself a photographer, I just take pictures.