Getting back in the groove

 It's been so long since I last worked with studio lighting so I decided to give it another shot. These were for my PH225 online class for composition. I am not a huge fan of compositional "rules" but here are my submissions for that assignment.

They aren't "horrible" but they aren't "great" but I don't have a great feeling of direction with them. The self portrait in the middle is how I would like my lighting compositions to kind of play out since it has an ethreal feel to it but I am not sure on when I am going to be able to put it into play.

I do have a couple ideas for fashion portraits with it but there isn't a whole lot I can think of off hand as I drink this delicious spiced amber ale blue moon. I guess more will come with time.

High Contrast Black and White

So one of my newer editing ways for black and white conversion deals with the channel mixer. Now using the channel mixer isn't a "new" way of doing black and white conversions by any means digitally but this is one of my favorite ways of doing the black and white conversions. With the channel mixer in monochrome and the RGB channels in their respective place shown in the screen shots. I like these particular numbers for this method for the higher contrast.


I do dodging and burning still like with all my other photographs.Which is why in the bird image there is the other layer as well. This stylized black and white I do use when there is a good amount of green, sometimes blues, but the numbers do change for the channels. Just move to taste really.

I guess this is less of a tutorial and more of a reference for the editing technique? So I guess there will be the infrared reference soon!