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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.” I’ve said it before – I really like what the RadioPopper guys have done with their radio triggers but they [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. I experimented with the final processing in different colors and tones [...]
