Photoshoot with Brandi
A friend and fellow photographer and I had the opportunity to shoot a local young and rising model Brandi. The shoot held at a local state park. I brought along a Alien Bee AB800 strobe/monolight, a beauty dish, a Vagabond power supply and a Kacey Pole Adaptor to hold it all together. The Kacey Pole adaptor was kind of the missing link for me that makes bringing studio gear into the field manageable. We worked with Brandi primarily at a single site in the park but that site provided a lot of different looks all within a few hundred feet. ...
Edgy Sports Portrait with HDR
One of my favorite photographers work to follow is Joel Grimes. Joels is pretty famous for his "three point lighting" setup of models, athletes, musicians, or other characters mixed with a HDR background. I really enjoy the look of Joels three point lighting work because it is different than most and because for me, it really pops. Not to say he doesn't have a huge body of outstanding work beyond this style, he does. I just really enjoy his three point lighting style. Joel is very open about how his shooting and processing. He has posted several video and written articles ...
Allison
I had the pleasure of photographing Allison for her senior portraits. She is a really sweet young lady with a wonderful future ahead of her. She had lots of fun doing her senior photo shoot. She was quick to "strike a pose" and was just beautiful in her yellow senior high prom dress. All the shots shown here were and shot with a single white lightening strobe powered by a vagabond II.
Strobist Sports Portraits – Setup #1
Last weekend Jason Lykins and Shad Ramsey of Red Door Photography just outside of Cincinnati hosted a Strobist Meet-up at their large studio. If you're in the Cincinnati area, you should check them out. The do wonderful work and they support the photography community with regular classes for photographers and models. For this meet-up, I helped by hosting the sign-up forms for photographers and models here on LightandPixels.com. We had a good turn out of photographers and models. The theme of the Strobist Meet-up was "Sports". As the frequent readers of this blog know, I love sports-portraits or "Sportraits". It ...
Corporate Head Shots
I recently created head shots for a local office of a Fortune 100 company for use in their literature, organization charts and such. My job was to shoot a group people in management throughout the group. The shots were not glamorous, just straight forward business head shots. I needed to shoot a torso up image that was acceptable to each person and provide 6 images of each person. In other words I was to provide three images sizes of two crops of the same shot for each person. The image would have to look good in color or black ...
Black and White Pin Up Shots
Here are a few B/W pics from the pin-up shoot. Using black and white pictures seem important to me when shooting this style picture. The last one isn't really 100% black and white but it has an old photos style look that I enjoy. The processing in the shot below was accomplished using a Lightroom preset I picked up somewhere - I which I could credit who ever it came from cause I really like it! [ad]
Fantasy Moon Pin Up
One of the goals that I had during the Pin Up shoot last weekend was to create a "Fantasy Moon Pin Up" image and I was able to complete that goal. Below is the final result. I'm pretty happy with the final image. [caption id="attachment_2310" align="aligncenter" width="376" caption="Click for a shadow box image on black"][/caption] I experimented with the final processing in different colors and tones but this one just seemed to work for me because of her black outfit. To make the image work, I needed the model to be in just the right position to make it look like she ...
1940’s Style Pin Up Shoot
Sorry that I've not been active posting for some time. I've got a huge project in the works and it's been taking almost every free moment. I hope to make it public in the next month or so. So stay tuned, it's gonna be good! That said, sometimes you've just got to take time and shoot when you're given an opportunity like I got this weekend. This weekend I was lucky enough to work with a pair of wonderful models shooting 40's Style Pin Up photos. There were two Photo Setups. For this shot there was a PCB White Lightning ...
Tiki in the sun
I don't shoot black and white very often but sometimes it's just the best option, even for me. This shot of Tiki our Yorkie. He was taking a nap while laying in the sun, something we don't see much of this time of year. He was enjoying it as I got ready to go and shoot my nieces final High School basketball game and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to capture this image. Here's one from the basket ball game too. [ad]
Mike’s Sportrait
I worked with Mike H. (MM# 1436925) to create some Sportrait (Sports Portrait) shots. The weather didn't allow for outside shooting so we did a simple back drop and created some hard edge light shots using strip boxes with grids and a large umbrella fill. We used a fold out black backdrop and exploited the grids on the strip boxes to keep it black and avoid fall off. I did a little bit of the "Gritty Look" on one of the images and it's one of my favorites. [ad]
Cosmetics Beauty Ad
I had a great time hanging out with the people from the Northern KY Wedding and Portrait Photographers meet-up group on Sunday. The organizers setup a very cool meet-up where 7 photographers setup "advanced lighting" shots and then demoed them to a group of about 35 area photographers. First, I'd like to thank Jason and Shad of Red Door Photographic for hosting the meet-up. I'd also like to thank Tammy and Tom Bryan for organizing on yet another wonderful meet-up. Next, thanks to everyone else who put on a setup. I fully intend to steal at least one idea from ...
One RadioPopper JrX Driving Two Alien Bees DIY
Sometimes the obvious just dawns on you and that's what happened to me. I realized that you can use a single RadioPopper JrX Studio to control two Alien Bees with one receiver. All you need is one phone splitter and one long phone wire. You can use the shot phone cord that comes with the JrX. I used a 25 foot phone wire to drive two AB800s. Remote power control matches on the lights. Triggering is simultaneous and remains in sync. I could see how a long cable may add enough resistance to have them fire a little out of ...
Photoshoot with Brandi
A friend and fellow photographer and I had the opportunity to shoot a local young and rising model Brandi. The shoot held at a local state park. I brought along a Alien Bee AB800 strobe/monolight, a beauty dish, a Vagabond power supply and a Kacey Pole Adaptor to hold it all together. The Kacey Pole adaptor was kind of the missing link for me that makes bringing studio gear into the field manageable.... [Read more]
Edgy Sports Portrait with HDR
One of my favorite photographers work to follow is Joel Grimes. Joels is pretty famous for his “three point lighting” setup of models, athletes, musicians, or other characters mixed with a HDR background. I really enjoy the look of Joels three point lighting work because it is different than most and because for me, it really pops. Not to say he doesn’t have a huge body of outstanding... [Read more]
Allison
I had the pleasure of photographing Allison for her senior portraits. She is a really sweet young lady with a wonderful future ahead of her. She had lots of fun doing her senior photo shoot. She was quick to “strike a pose” and was just beautiful in her yellow senior high prom dress. All the shots shown here were and shot with a single white lightening strobe powered by a vagabond... [Read more]
RadioPopper RPCube Announced – Canon DIY Cube Working
The email from Radiopopper finally came out tonight. The guys at Leap Devices have made the following announcement: “The RadioPopper RPCube will be available for purchase Monday, May 3, 2010 at 1pm PST for $29.95.” The official Radiopopper RPCube from Leap Device I’ve said it before – I really like what the RadioPopper guys have done with their radio triggers but they tend... [Read more]
Strobist Sports Portraits – Setup #2
The second setup for the Strobist Sports Portrait shoot was a one light setup outside. I used the same White Lightning 1600 with the 7″ 20 degree grid outside in the beautiful clear day. It was bright out there! The plan for this shot was to “over power the sun”. That big ass White Lightning strobe with a pretty dang tight grid allows me to shoot a small enough aperture and... [Read more]
Strobist Sports Portraits – Setup #1
Last weekend Jason Lykins and Shad Ramsey of Red Door Photography just outside of Cincinnati hosted a Strobist Meet-up at their large studio. If you’re in the Cincinnati area, you should check them out. The do wonderful work and they support the photography community with regular classes for photographers and models. For this meet-up, I helped by hosting the sign-up forms for photographers... [Read more]
