not technically well lit, but i like the contrast across the face.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
day 314 - half and half
not technically well lit, but i like the contrast across the face.
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day 313 - hard and melancholy
got a hard light above and behind, a soft light above and in front, and a reflector in front and below. and that's about it.
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day 312 - look up
i wanted to attempt some above-softly-lit stuff, so i threw together this. did a floor skip off the hard wood for some color contrast-shadow detail, and that's about it. i like it quite a bit, but the head angle is an area of non-compromise. even looking straight ahead means the hat brim will prevent light from getting onto my face, and that's a lot of what makes this picture good.
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day 311 - on white
this is probably my first serious attempt at shooting on a white with no detail background. i did some photoshop processing on it, in the original picture there was a lot of objects around me in the frame. so i cropped close to myself, and then expanded the canvas size in photoshop. the result is that it appears as if i was in a large empty room, but i was actually in my smallish crowded living room instead.
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day 309 - blued
no setup shot for this one, it's just a muted blue hard light camera left and a bit soft umbrella camera right. simple and to the point.
day 307 - strong up
this one has a strong uplight coming off the trigrip with a silver/gold cover on it. the silver/gold makes a very specular light source, it comes off very contrasty, but i think that's what i liked about this picture.
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day 306 - pseudo noir
i thought this reminded me of a film noir type thing, so i adjusted it up using some cross processing to accentuate the feel. i dig it.
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
day 305 - going warm
it's weird, contrast is so key. if you gel all your lights cto.... then it just looks like an orange filter applied in photoshop. so what you have to do is leave one flash daylight balanced, or gel it blue or some other color. it just makes more visual sense when there's a contrasting element. not to say you can't make a compelling monochrome picture, it's just that i think a color contrast solution is way more interesting.
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day 304 -
not too different from 303, just added a light for the background to get that gradient workin'.
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day 303 - up blue
went back to my color contrast roots on this one.... got a gold gel on the main light, and a blue gel on the down low uplight. it's amazing how great color contrasts like this work. i think i need to explore other color contrasts than the usual blue/orange mix i've been pimping.
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day 302 - super desat guy
this is from the same session as 301..... i just moved the light to directly behind my head and turned the power up a bit. did some desaturation in lightroom, and that's it. i usually stay away from heavy desat, since it became such an easy trendy thing to do, but i really think it compliments this portrait well.
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day 301 - ray ish
for this shot i wanted to set up a super hard light that would rim out a profile, sortof like man ray style, but all in the camera. i've been thinking more and more about how to integrate graphic design type elements into photos, without resorting to photoshop. it's a bit of an interesting challenge.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
day 298 - dark side of the face
i'm liking this style of light a lot more lately. it's sorta a light-around-the-subject thing, less big strong light. nicely indirect.
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day 295 - pensive
if i ever shot aesop rock, this would be how i would want the picture to come out. it has a very aesop rock feel to it.
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day 294 - fabulous
yep, mixing it up with one of alisia's scarves. i think i look good in it.
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day 292 - obey
just a close up short depth of field shot of my sweatshirt. i thought it would look cool.... shirt in focus, my head a blur up there in the background.
and doesn't my torso look like 12 feet long in the setup shot? weird.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
day 291 - two dogs
our dog plays with the neighbor's dog a lot. they're pretty much best friends at this point. anyways, our neighbor asked me if i could take a picture of the two of them sometime. i think she meant a snapshot or something like that, but i took it in another direction and did a studio-ish portrait thing. and this is it.
i shot each one separately, since there's no way either one would hold still if the other was around. so the camera's on a tripod, there's a 40" softbox camera right, and a honl gridded sb-28 camera left doing that gradient on the background.
drop both pictures into photoshop, mask out critical areas, and there it is. two dogs.
day 290 - shadow side
was working a variation of day 289, with an added blue slash light, then decided to turn it on it's ear. set up some backlighting with the softbox, and the reflector for fill. blue slash still in effect, and that's it. always cool to shoot the dark side of the face.
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day 289 - zombie apocalypse
wanted to light with a lot of reflection coming up from below. stuck my hands out to see how much was coming up, and liked the shot, so i kept it.
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