Yesterday, I taught a small workshop here’s a photo using natural light with a silver 6ft reflector. I will post more from this series in few days.
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Something I’ve been meaning to blog about is photography (and for that matter, any type of) forums. Forums can be a useful tool for the up and coming photographer, but they can also be a bad thing and it’s important to know which is which. If you don’t, you can find yourself the victim of morons and either putting up your camera, turning off forums or worse yet, becoming one of the “know it all” that everyone runs to, when in fact, you know very little.
I shot this with one light. I’ve usually used the ball chair for glamour work, but decided I wanted to do artistic lighting. I got my new favorite model and put her to work. The cool thing about artistic nude is everything doesn’t have to show in order for it to be a cool photo.
One light up high shot through a Photogenic Solair PLR500drc and Chimera 9×36 stripbox.
Just had a mini shoot today and I’m wiped out. I will post photos from that in a bit, but what I wanted to do was share one photo with ya, ok, maybe two. The first one is the glasses….
A few days ago, I got a call from a young lady who was employed by the BBB. She wanted me to join their service and stated how awesome they were. I listened to her spiel and after she was done, I told her I wasn’t interested. She, being the sales person she is, wanted to know why. I informed her that there was JUST a report about how the BBB scams people. She stated the reports were all wrong and that I should reconsider.
No thanks!
Summer and fall are fun times in the photography world because we can go outdoors. Now I live in CO so I can shoot outdoors almost every day, but some models freak about the cold.
As I stated before, I enjoy shooting outdoors with nothing but the model, camera and myself. This offers a more intimate shoot and allows the model to relax and NOT try and anticipate the flash. Here’s one from last week where it was a simple setup. Just the sun.
The ONLY thing I love about summer is the fact that I can shoot outdoors any time I want. I’m more a fan of the Colorado fall as the photos below of Paige, were shot at 8pm in November 2009.
Sadly, we’re not at the fall time of year so we must make due.
When I’m out doors shooting, I treat it like I do in studio; it’s an intimate shoot that has me wanting to spend my time getting to know my client.
Bringing bulky reflectors draws attention from the passer-by’s and now that camera phones are 5megapixel+ last thing I want or need is a crappy attempt at my shot out there.
When shooting outdoors, I want them as relaxed as possible. On a beautiful spring/summer/fall day, sun hitting them and warming them, one will get a more natural look from client.
For me, boudoir is about the client, not me. When I’m shooting portfolio stuff, although I make it about the client, it really is bottom line, about me. How am I going to light it. Or how will I pose it. With boudoir, I feel and say things such as “we” and “our” and occasionally, “your”
Janelle has a great unique look that I’ve wanted to shoot for some time. Her eyes are either blue or green or gray, just depends. Janelle is a dancer (not THAT kind of dancer!) so a lot of the photos I see of her are dancer specific. She’s usually moving hard, working hard or sweaty. I wanted our session to be more sensual/sexual so it can be different than whats in her book now. I wanted to celebrate her sexy and she was cool with it.