Monday, October 19, 2009

day 133 - thumbs up



shot in the kitchen, one sb-28 bouncing off the ceiling w' cto gel, one bouncing off the stove raw. f1.8 for shallow depth of field, and out of focus magic.

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day 132 - soft up hard down



i was playing around with a hard light above, soft light below setup, and noticed that if i tilt my head to block the hard light from hitting my eyes, the soft light shows up nicely and gives me a very creepy-intense look. so that's what i did. it's a cool look.... not one that you can use on everyone everytime, but useful for if i ever have to shoot a horror movie poster or something.

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day 131 - add softness



started out working the old hard and soft cross light thing, saw this and decided i liked the large shadowy expanse across my face. so i just called it here.

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day 130 - hard light pt 4



a more conventional use of hard light...

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day 129 - hard light pt 3



mysterious.... i like the three light sources in each eye.oh, and the flashes were both zoomed to 50mm for a more punchy light.

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day 128 - hard light pt 2


one above, one below, one for the background.

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day 127 - hard light pt 1



things have been getting too soft around here.... i thought i'd do a short series of hard light shots, learn a thing or two about not using modifiers, see what happens.

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