St. Louis Strobist Meetup

This past Saturday (1-31-09) my friends Jason, Eleisha, and myself all drove up to St. Louis for the Strobist meetup that day.  All told we probably spent 7 hours in the car for the drive there and back, but it was worth it.  We met so many nice photographers willing to help – it was nice.  No one was wrapped up in their ego, everyone was just there to shoot and have a good time.

The models were great too.  We had around 9 different models to use throughout the day, all with something different to offer.  It was fun to try all sorts of different light setups under such little pressure.  Most of the models had never modeled before, so it gave everyone an outlet to learn and improve in a casual, no-pressure environment.

Here are a few of my favorites from the shoot:

You can see a few more on my Flickr page as well as everyone else’s at the shoot on the St. Louis Strobist Flickr Group.  This guy Chinga was awesome.  And, he made me really jealous…man I would kill to look like that.