Studio Portraits of Bri

JulieLawsonPhotography

CC is especially welcome today. I have a senior session on saturday and we are going to do some studio shots........so let me know please.

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Getting pictures of my oldest is just about as hard as getting pictures of my youngest. I secured a session with another Senior today, which I’m thrilled about. For this Senior’s session, we are going to include a little studio time. Since I’ve yet to do a lot of studio shots and my oldest wanted photos for her facebook, I though I would kill two birds with one stone. On my studio lights, I have colored filters which I used for these. I really love how the red filter made the photographs turn out. I also used blue, but can’t tell as much as I can with the red one.
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du8die

Nice stuff Julie,

I really like the poses / composition on #1, 2 & 3.

I know you shot with a red gel, and I like the effect, but I think the shots turned out a bit either yellow or red. They look a little too warm.

Thanks for sharing!

JulieLawsonPhotography

du8die wrote:

Nice stuff Julie,

I really like the poses / composition on #1, 2 & 3.

I know you shot with a red gel, and I like the effect, but I think the shots turned out a bit either yellow or red. They look a little too warm.

Thanks for sharing!

Yeah...I've never used it and so need more practice. That's why I love this board. Hoping to get more how-to's on it. It looks like the red gel caused that, but not the blue. Or, is it supposed to warm the subject up like that?

Thanks for your response.

ChatKat

I gel the background - not the subject - just my personal taste. Pu tthe gel on the strobe that you point to the background in studio. For flash when you want to use a gel to take away the brightness a CTO is a different technique and I somehow thing that might be the confusion.

JulieLawsonPhotography wrote:

Yeah...I've never used it and so need more practice. That's why I love this board. Hoping to get more how-to's on it. It looks like the red gel caused that, but not the blue. Or, is it supposed to warm the subject up like that?

Thanks for your response.

JulieLawsonPhotography

ChatKat wrote:

I gel the background - not the subject - just my personal taste. Pu tthe gel on the strobe that you point to the background in studio. For flash when you want to use a gel to take away the brightness a CTO is a different technique and I somehow thing that might be the confusion.

The gel was on a light that was pointed toward the background, not on the subject. More practice is needed

ChatKat

JulieLawsonPhotography wrote:

The gel was on a light that was pointed toward the background, not on the subject. More practice is needed

There is light spill on the subject. Move the background light or the sujbect so that the light is only on the background.

du8die

Hey Julie,

I should have been more specific. I really like the red highlights in her hair. That's cool IMHO. On my laptop monitor, the whole image looked red, but on my monitor, not so much. The warmth I was referring to was in her face. It's not so bad on my LCD. Now imagine if I had something color-corrected.

d8