Here are some images from a recent beauty shoot of Anna Catherine. Hair and makeup by Monique Albritton.

My goal was to create interesting but clean images. The shoot was in my studio using a Nikon D300, 85mm f/1.4 and strobes modified with a gridded beauty dish and gridded soft box/strip box. Enjoy!

Sometimes, it pays to loosen up and have fun.

I had been planning to shoot with Sarah for a little while, and on Wednesday we decided to meet outside the World Financial Center in New York City. The sun was going down and for lighting I'd packed just a single SB-800 flash, one lightstand and some gels. But that was all we needed.

As the sun was going down, I put an orange gel on the flash to give it the look of the sun. Later, when it was dark, Sarah noticed the path was lit with blue lights. So, I put a blue gel on the flash and kept shooting.

By the time we were done, we'd made some neat images. The key was to go with the flow and shoot whatever the environment presented. You can view the whole set on my Flickr page.

Just saw this "What The Duck" comic strip and it made me smile.

Guess I've been spending too much time with Photoshop!

I was in New York City yesterday for a meeting, and brought along my D300 to take some photos afterward.

Well, my initial photowalk turned up absolutely nothing. So I had some sushi -- it started to rain just as I got there -- and came out again just after the rain stopped. I love shooting after a rain, as the wet surfaces create great reflections. Add sundown to that and you have a recipe for some nice images.

I was quite pleased with what I got. I put a slideshow with all my images from the set on Flickr. Enjoy.

Joe McNally has to be one of the best Nikon photographers on the planet.

On the Strobist blog, I saw the following video of a shoot Joe ran in the Dubai desert. The Strobist's post is very entertaining -- I think David actually shot the video with a Canon G9 -- so go ahead and read it for details about the shoot itself.

However, it's the video that is truly wild. At one point, Joe has 7 SB-800 flashes firing at once from a single stand. It looks like a giant flash lollipop!

I just reconfigured the Farrell Kramer Digital Images site to better reflect my focus on fashion and beauty photography.

There are now two portfolios: fashion/beauty and personal work. They are larger, with the sidebars removed and the images extending nearly the entire width of the page. I've also reworked some other sections.

Please stop by the site and check it out. Leave a comment if you have any suggestions.

I attended a fashion workshop last week in New York City given by Bruce Smith, a well-known British fashion photographer.

The workshop was a great deal of fun and I learned a lot.

Below are some of my favorite images from the 4 days. Overall, I shot more than 2,000 frames with my Nikon D300, using primarily my 17-55mm f/2.8 lens. If you'd like to see more, I've built a Flickr slideshow.

(UPDATE: new Snapshot Syndicate photo site.)

I attended a workshop held by the Snapshot Syndicate meetup group in New Jersey last weekend. It was a lot of fun and I got a few nice images.

These were shot with my Nikon D300 with my 35mm f/2 and 85mm f/1.4 lenses. Enjoy!

When I was in New York City earlier this week, I stopped by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and noticed two street performers doing a routine for people gathered on the steps.

They were very entertaining and I took these pictures.

I just finished processing some images from my lastest studio shoot. We used a number of different lighting setups to create different looks for the images.

The model, Erica, did a wonderful job with different types of poses. You can see some more of the images in this slideshow on my Flickr page.