Once in a while I will break a photo shoot into two parts. On Sunday I photographed Sahil Hassan on the Utah Salt Flats – which takes a while to drive out then photograph and then drive back. It takes so much time that it would be too much to try and photograph in another location.
So we photographed in downtown near Pierpont Avenue and we got some amazing photographs. This is one I really like – and I will post more when I finish edits.
Sahil Hassan in Downtown Salt Lake City
I had what I call an emergency photo shoot. The modeling agency tells an upcoming model they need some headshots and portfolio photography ASAP. So this morning – braving the cold – Jhonathan Lange took center stage and we were able to create some amazing photographs! Here is one of those photos as a preview. I will edit some more and post them in another blog post.
To take these photographs I used one lens and one portable softbox. I used my Nikkor f/1.4 50mm lens. And for the light I used a Nikon SB-800 shot through my new Lastolite Ezybox 24″ softbox. That softbox combination is awesome! I am converted! The set up allows me to photograph at amazing shutter speeds such as 1/8000 th of a second and that allows me to photograph at f/1.4. You can’t do that in outside daylight with Alien Bees.
Jhonathan Lange, Male Model
Hooray for strobist techniques! I want to go photograph again! And in January I believe I will be photographing Jhonathan and his sisters and even his mom. They are all looking at modeling possibilities – very cool indeed!
Four photo shoots today! And each was as unique as the next. So I picked one of my friend Hunter James Richardson and his high fashion photo shoot. He is an experienced model with a rather extensive career with Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana and others. And it was a lot of fun to work with him. There will be more photos to be released – but I will have to sort them and whittle them down to the best of the best.
High fashion model photograph
I had rented a photo studio again and I wanted to get my money’s worth out of the studio. So we had 3 different shoots at the studio. I had one other shoot at the Salt Palace for Nu Skin. So busy! And tomorrow will be busy – but not as busy. I have to make it to Pictureline – it is Canon day at Pictureline – they will be showing off Canon cameras, lenses, and all their toys.
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Sunlight and a beauty dish light our model
Here is a preview image from Saturday’s photo shoot. The shoot on Saturday was the chance to play with three Alien Bee strobe lights – but to be honest I usually need just one. Three can be overwhelming and even difficult to manage.
Here we have a photograph with technically 2 lights – the strobe and the sunlight. The sun is directly behind the model – it is even flaring in the lens – which looks so cool. When looking through the camera before I click the shutter I can barely make out the form of the model – the sun just overpowers everything. But when the flash pops it is able to fill in the shadows and cast enough light on the model.
So if you want some cool photos and I am wanting to do some practice photography – or stock photography – jump at the chance. It is a lot of fun. This was taken on Floral Street in Salt Lake City, Utah. Oh, and I used the Topaz Detail Photoshop plugin on this photograph as well. That helped define the pavement, buildings and such. I masked that out on the model because we want her skin and clothes to look smooth and soft not harsh and edge.
This photo was edited with Kevin Kubota's 300esque
There are times where I don’t think I need to edit photos – the lighting and the subject look perfect when they come out of the camera. But then I start to dodge and burn and boost contrast and saturation and things do look even better. I love using my Wacom Intuos 4 large tablet – it is has an active area of 8″ by 12″ and it is amazing. (more…)
Rusty Lopez Actor Headshot Photography
Drew needed photos for his modeling career. Every model starts with a comp card or a zed card which has 5 photos on it and so we had a few looks and different location to get different photos. We were also moving as quickly as we could because about 10 minutes after we photographed this it started to snow sideways. A freaky spring storm just engulfed the Salt Lake valley. I am glad I had an assistant to hold the softbox – we had winds that were just nuts.
As I tell people – half of photography is dealing with crisis. Weather seems to be a popular needle in everyone’s hat. We were going to be photographing Ethan Reynolds for some portfolio shots and the weather just didn’t want to cooperate.
We shot photos in a make shift studio but at a certain point the weather cleared a little so I grabbed my camera with the 70-200mm and we did a quick march around Park City’s Main Street.
I really like the photos with the wet asphalt. Movies and TV for years have cheated by washing the roads with water for a more clean shot. In this case the wet roads helped provide some really cool shadows and highlights. Me likey.
