Location Lighting Class

So since I failed my resolution on updating once per week when school kicked in I decided now since I am working on more finished photographs instead of everything that I seem to cook up I can hopefully bring more of a quality posts.

 At any rate I started my location lighting class which is awesome and my first assignment which is shown on the right. This shot was done with the 530 exII as the master and a 430 ex on photo right for the other light source bouncing off the ceiling. Longer exposure to burn in more of the ambient light behind me. Other than that I just had them as a bare bulb. No special modifiers on them since the 430 was just laying on its back.

  The location for this particular photo was in an old church my school bought and was using for a lecture hall. I do have some more images from the shoot but none of them stand out to me very much. I will be making another post shortly with some of the film I shot last semester because there are two images in particular that I really like that I haven't been able to get online yet. Since my alt process class started as well I will have some more film prints coming out. The most recent shots are from a pinhole camera to a giant film negative. I need to clean them then print them on some fiber paper before showing off the images. The pinhole camera was made out of a tea tin so it was a pretty fun little experiment. There will be more on that and I might make an DIY pinhole camera post in the future. Hopefully I don't get swamped and can actually go through with it unlike the infrared tutorial. Which I do have the majority of the images but I am trying to get the proper film for it. Just so there will be a good base on how the final effect is suppost to look unlike how people are making it out to look. If I get my Mark 3 before I have the chance to order and shoot the film I will probably just send my 50d out to get modded into an infrared only camera which would work as well.

At any rate let me know how you guys like the image on here or on flickr! It would be great to start getting more input on what I been doing.

Renee Gherman Photoshoot

     So this shoot I got to play with both of my new wireless receivers, which work like a charm in the day. The only real issue was the auto focus at night which over half of the shoot was at night. I did get some nice light. I was using my 580exII as a main flash with my spotlight and a 430ex as the kicker light. It was a fun shoot that got some awesome ice cream and creamsicle rooibos tea. I would like to do more wireless strobes in the near future but for now I need to save up for my 5dmII.

 

 Things I did while writing this blog post:

Chatted it up about changing my hair

Uploaded the photos to flickr

 Watched some Tele

Josh Evans' Promo Shoot

     Alright here is the second part update of the day with Josh Evans and Mindy Duponte's photoshoot. The same technical mumbo jumbo this post is going to be much shorter than the last. This photo shoot was a lot of fun though. Great location, and the off camera flash was awesome.

     I did get a new receiver, so now I can use both flashes I own off camera. Which is awesome because I can now add more depth to my images, and play with lighting things in different ways. I also grabbed a Flip video camera to record some of the shoot and possibly make some video of them and make like a cool montage or something. It is almost 4 a.m. and I am getting sleepy, I can't remember what else I had to talk about.

Things I did while writing this blog post:

-Tried not passing out

-Chatted with a friend

-Didn't get distracted by T.V.

Mindy Duponte Photoshoot

     Well today I have done a couple of photo shoots. One with Josh Evans and one with Mindy Duponte. I finally got to uploading some images from Heaven Vs. Hell 4. With this super busy Sunday I have hardly had a lot of time to do other work fortunately  I was able to get these edits done, tomorrow I will be working on more tomorrow for Josh and working on some other blog posts. This is just a small preview of what is to come for this week.

     To get to the nitty gritty of this post now, these were shot with my spotlight and my wireless transmitters. Soon I should be getting my new transmitter so I can be working my 430 and the 580 off camera and that should add a bit more of depth to the images or at least add some awesome back lighting effects along side of a hard light.

     Soon I might also be putting on some edited video on the blog as well. Once I get my 5dmII the quality of the video will be drastically raised but since my purchase of my MacBook Pro I am able to run final cut so I might be able to do some video logs of some of my adventures and photoshoots.

Things I did while writing this blog post:

- Chatted on Skype

- Pokemon White version (nuff said)