Grandparents Day

I had a loooooooong day at the elementary school doing Grandparents' Day portraits. Last year it was a sunny day, so I had ample light coming through the huge wall of windows and I didn't need to use any other lights. Today it was rainy, and the light coming in the windows depended on how thick the cloud cover was at any given moment. I had to use a strobe in a 2'x3' softbox and continuous light w/ shoot-thru umbrella, and a reflector, and sometimes even an on-camera speedlight, to get good lighting. Even still, I'm going to have to adjust the lighting on about 30% of them in photoshop. Dangit.

Anyway, below is one of the photos where the lighting was fairly decent (just a hair dark, though). This one was not chosen for a portrait package, but it might be my favorite of the day. I love the way Grandma and Grandpa are blurred just a smidge, laughing at Mr. J, who is being silly.

Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/25
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 47.0 mm
Lens: EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Flash: Strobe w/ softbox
White Balance: Custom (not sure what happened--that's actually a gray background)