Friday, January 27th, 2012

Old Steam Engine Tech

This pressure gauge was found while cleaning out Mom's garage. Her dad was a big fan of steam engines and this was likely a favorite of grandpa's. The set up was a SB600 with red gel pointed at a white board behind the gauge. A SB800 with yellow gel pointed at a reflector in front of the camera that the camera is shooting through. Last light is an led flashlight clamped to the boom arm holding the SB600 to add focus to the instructions. Processed in Lightroom with a bit ...

Product Photography

I've been doing some product photography and needed to better understand macro and focus stacking techniques. The resulting photos are taken using a D300 and a 28-75 Tamron 2.8 Macro lens mounted on a tripod. The lighting setup is simple. One SB800 shot over the top of the pearls and bounced off of a white foam core board. To provide some fill, the camera is shooting directly through another piece of white foam core board. I cut a hole just large enough to get the lens through and then added the hood to hold ...

Mandy’s Senior Portrait

Mandy is a senior at Springboro High School in Ohio. She is fun and full of life. Mandy is also an excellent student and athlete she plans to play soccer in college. Our shoot was great fun. Both of Mandy parents came along for the shoot. Mandy's dad was especially good at spotting a great location and he also carried the big lights for me! Mandy's was the definition of a perfect senior session. Here is a sneak peek at Mandy's pictures. For more senior portrait information in SW Ohio please contact me at TomSeibertPhotography.com

Lighting a Wine Bottle

I've been doing some product photography and though I'd share my setup for a wine bottle shot. This should be a good practice run for a job I recently quoted. This is the final photo. It would be used in an online website catalog. The job I quoted isn't wine but it's similar in nature - both in general shape and reflectiveness. My process was to set the front light as my main and light the front of the bottle. and then add in the strip boxes one at a time. I ended up with the pointed a bit forward to get ...

Alysse’s Photo Shoot

Please welcome Alysse to the LightandPixels.com photographic family. Alysse is a beautiful young model that is getting started in spectacular fashion. Alysse is headed to college at my old Alma-mater, Hocking Technical College to study wildlife management. I agree it's a good idea to know how to manage your life when it gets wild and HTC has the potential for lots of wildlife! :D Alysse tells me that a lot of people say she looks like Lady Gaga - I think she looks better. A lot better! These photos were taken for her to add to her modeling portfolio. The day we took these shots it ...

Photoshoot with Brandi

A friend and fellow photographer and I had the opportunity to shoot a local young and rising model Brandi (brandidandee@gmail.com). The shoot was 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 ...

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 ...

Old Steam Engine Tech

This pressure gauge was found while cleaning out Mom’s garage. Her dad was a big fan of steam engines and this was likely a favorite of grandpa’s. The set up was a SB600 with red gel pointed at a white board behind the gauge. A SB800 with yellow gel pointed at a reflector in front of the camera that the camera is shooting through. Last light is an led flashlight clamped to... [Read more]

Product Photography

I’ve been doing some product photography and needed to better understand macro and focus stacking techniques. The resulting photos are taken using a D300 and a 28-75 Tamron 2.8 Macro lens mounted on a tripod. The lighting setup is simple. One SB800 shot over the top of the pearls and bounced off of a white foam core board. To provide some fill, the camera is shooting directly through another... [Read more]

Mandy’s Senior Portrait

Mandy is a senior at Springboro High School in Ohio. She is fun and full of life. Mandy is also an excellent student and athlete she plans to play soccer in college. Our shoot was great fun. Both of Mandy parents came along for the shoot. Mandy’s dad was especially good at spotting a great location and he also carried the big lights for me! Mandy’s was the definition of a perfect... [Read more]

Lighting a Wine Bottle

I’ve been doing some product photography and though I’d share my setup for a wine bottle shot. This should be a good practice run for a job I recently quoted. This is the final photo. It would be used in an online website catalog. The job I quoted isn’t wine but it’s similar in nature – both in general shape and reflectiveness. My process was to set the front... [Read more]

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