Playing in Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds // Grace Turns 4

Silver Balloons Make Me Happy

A good time for me involves a few things: cool balloons, a beautiful afternoon, good food, and taking portraits of a 4 year old full of energy. Thus, this shoot was a good time indeed.

The portraits took place in Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology – I love the IIT campus! It’s a great place to take portraits – it’s peaceful and full of locations and amazing backgrounds. The coolest part of Crown Hall was Andy Worhol’s “Silver Clouds” exhibit, as well as the Lego City exhibit. This made for an amazing and interesting photo shoot. Running through and around the silver balloons was a blast, and almost surreal. I could feel my imagination running at warp speed.

The portrait session ended at Pompei on Taylor street. I hadn’t intended on shooting there, but the location and lighting was perfect for some candid and posed portraits of Grace. Here are a few of my favorite pictures of the day:

Check out more of Crown Hall and the IIT campus.

Set-Up

Nikon D700 – shooting in RAW

Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8

Nikon 50mm f/1.4

Tamron 12-24mm f/4.0

Nikon SB-800

Nikon CLS for OCF

30″ Umbrella

Adobe Lightroom 3 for editing

By The Way: Be a kid in order to take some fun photos of kids. I had a blast running though the balloons, and I am sure that Grace noticed my willingness to be a kid.