Sr. Portrait advise needed!

DanielB · April 14, 2006

okay...anyone got advise for this? i'm doing Sr. Portraits for my brother down on the Plaza.... he wants to get some out there around 5 in alotta light... then we'll go eat and take some shots in the setting/sweet light... all i got to work with is a 430EX, a flash bracket, an Omnibounce, and a shoe cord.... any advise on poses? probably alot of brick walls, alleys and such.... its kinda a rough area on saturday nights... okay guys. i told ya what ya need to know... now tell me what I need to know...:wink

the pressure is on *for me*

Daniel

DanielB · April 14, 2006

did i mention the shoot is tomorrow night?:uhoh...

photodoug · April 14, 2006

DanielB wrote:

did i mention the shoot is tomorrow night?:uhoh...

no sleep tonight....

DanielB · April 14, 2006

photodoug wrote:

no sleep tonight....

yeah no kiddin'

Art Scott · April 15, 2006

Google can be your friend......

http://www.onlocationportraiture.com/senior38.htm

http://www.greggriess.com/seniors_portfolio.htm

http://www.creativeimagingcenter.com/photography/senior_portfolio.php

http://www.tommybrown.com/Pages/Portrait3.html

http://www.tulsaphotographer.com/pages/senior%20portrait%20tulsa.html

Repeat after me.....Google is my friend, Google is my friend. Google is my friend.

....GOOOOOOGLE is my friend.....

DanielB · April 15, 2006

thanks Art

anyone else? the shoots in 3 hours.:uhoh

DanielB · April 15, 2006

postponed for next saturday because of rain... i have another week to study-up

saurora · April 15, 2006

Okay, can you pre-scout the location now that you have a week to shoot? Maybe grab us some shots of the area so we can see what you're up against????

DanielB · April 15, 2006

saurora wrote:

Okay, can you pre-scout the location now that you have a week to shoot? Maybe grab us some shots of the area so we can see what you're up against????

i'll see what i can do

ivar · April 16, 2006

Uhmmm, i am almost afraid to ask this question, since everyone else seems to know exactly what it is, maybe i need to get some coffee, but what are Sr. Portraits?

DavidTO · April 16, 2006

ivar wrote:

Uhmmm, i am almost afraid to ask this question, since everyone else seems to know exactly what it is, maybe i need to get some coffee, but what are Sr. Portraits?

Senior Portraits. You know, when you graduate High School.

Bob Bell · April 16, 2006

ivar wrote:

Uhmmm, i am almost afraid to ask this question, since everyone else seems to know exactly what it is, maybe i need to get some coffee, but what are Sr. Portraits?

I was assuming Senior Citizens. Which you just need even illumination and a ziess softar or a decent soft focus photoshop action.

If it is Senior Criminals than goto Kata get a full body suit and dont make a single mistake

High School / College Seniors then do something fresh and edgy with colored lights. maybe a green fill on 1 side and an amber fill on the other. Then very diffused flash on the front. Something with high contrast, maybe put your flash in high key areas.

Then again if the sun is setting use that sweet golden light to fill your subject and shoot away without flash.

ivar · April 16, 2006

DavidTO wrote:

Senior Portraits. You know, when you graduate High School.

Uhmmm, actually i don't know.

So what are the photos for? any specific purpose? Over here in highschool, every year there is usually a school photographer who takes your (passport-photo-style) picture, and that's it....

ivar · April 16, 2006

Bob Bell wrote:

I was assuming Senior Citizens. Which you just need even illumination and a ziess softar or a decent soft focus photoshop action.

I was thinking that too at first, but there couldn't be that much of and age difference between Daniel and his brother, could there?

DavidTO · April 16, 2006

ivar wrote:

Uhmmm, actually i don't know. So what are the photos for? any specific purpose? Over here in highschool, every year there is usually a school photographer who takes your (passport-photo-style) picture, and that's it....

Yeah, same thing here, but the senior, graduating picture is special, and in recent years has become more special. Used to be that the only difference was that the senior pictures were printed in the yearbook in color, the rest in b/w. Now it's a big friggin' deal.

ivar · April 16, 2006

DavidTO wrote:

Yeah, same thing here, but the senior, graduating picture is special, and in recent years has become more special. Used to be that the only difference was that the senior pictures were printed in the yearbook in color, the rest in b/w. Now it's a big friggin' deal.

Oh, it's become sort of a hype now? Here it isn't (yet). In highschool i never had a yearbook and no other photos than the standard ones :uhoh (not that i feel i missed anything btw)

DavidTO · April 16, 2006

ivar wrote:

Oh, it's become sort of a hype now? Here it isn't (yet). In highschool i never had a yearbook and no other photos than the standard ones :uhoh (not that i feel i missed anything btw)

And yearbooks have doubled in size. It's amazing. The pressures of economics. The yearbook companies/photo studios trying to find a way to increase revenue keep upping the ante on these things.

ivar · April 16, 2006

DavidTO wrote:

And yearbooks have doubled in size. It's amazing. The pressures of economics. The yearbook companies/photo studios trying to find a way to increase revenue keep upping the ante on these things.

Yeah, when i was in the US, i saw some of my friends' yearbooks, they were huge! complete with everything you can think of. And they had one for almost every year of highschool i think

Is it made by a 3rd company? or by the school?

DanielB · April 16, 2006

ivar wrote:

Yeah, when i was in the US, i saw some of my friends' yearbooks, they were huge! complete with everything you can think of. And they had one for almost every year of highschool i think

Is it made by a 3rd company? or by the school?

my brother is on Yearbook *an actual class* where all they do is write stories for the yearbook.... some of my photos may get in it for certain events... i think we're aiming for around 300-400 pages this year....

DavidTO · April 16, 2006

ivar wrote:

Yeah, when i was in the US, i saw some of my friends' yearbooks, they were huge! complete with everything you can think of. And they had one for almost every year of highschool i think

Is it made by a 3rd company? or by the school?

Our school's yearbook comes with a DVD...one of the kids in the school made it, sold it to the school...quite the business head he's got.

DanielB · April 16, 2006

DavidTO wrote:

Our school's yearbook comes with a DVD...

Multimedia takes care of that... yearbook just sends them the whole yearbook basicly...

DanielB · April 17, 2006

is bringing a flashlight for light painting a good idea?

Giselle · April 19, 2006

kirk voclain had a slideshow on www.hhcolorlab.com site, I don't know if it is still there, if not, I can send you some images of his, it shows more guys pics than on his site.

Art Scott · April 19, 2006

DanielB wrote:

is bringing a flashlight for light painting a good idea?

Use some colored gels to get color out of the light and it could be real cool.....I think there has been some light painting shots on here a while ago.
need to as close to a totally blk area as possible so you (or assistant) are not seen doing the painting.

ian408 · April 19, 2006

Probably too late. Sorry I didn't see this sooner.

Reflectors. Bring if ya got 'em. Make some if you don't (think foamcore).

Show us some results when you get the chance.

saurora · April 19, 2006

Whatever you decide to do, Daniel, I hope you do some of your awesome black and whites!!!

DanielB · April 24, 2006

saurora wrote:

Whatever you decide to do, Daniel, I hope you do some of your awesome black and whites!!!

if you insist:D

rest posted here

pssst... i'm going back out again this saturday with him and his gf...

Sr. Portrait advise needed!

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