Our first Strobist shoot - way too many pics...

rwells

< Edited to add: As always, C&C welcome >


There was a Strobist group started here in the D/FW area, and in 30 days we now have 107 members.

Last night we had our first Stobist shoot in a props warehouse. Only 2 models showed up. I mainly helped everyone, but did grab a few shots.

I loaned out 2 of my speedlights/umbrellas, so I used my newly purchased Ray Flash Ring Flash. For a short while I did have use of my other gear.

I've not settled on any firm feelings about the Ray Flash, but you can see its results here.

I know it's not "people", but the owner asked in return for using her building that we provide some shots of a few of her props.

Canon 5DMkII, 580EXII, Ray Ring Flash. - A few shots with 2 OCF/umbrellas.

jbakerphoto

Hey Randy,
They look good as always. I have been watching the Dallas strobist group on flickr to see if they have been doing anything but they dont do much so maybe I will try to make one of your groups meetups.
Jon

rwells

unclejon wrote:

Hey Randy,
They look good as always. I have been watching the Dallas strobist group on flickr to see if they have been doing anything but they dont do much so maybe I will try to make one of your groups meetups.
Jon

Hey Jon,

We don't have a Flickr group yet, but here is our Meetup website:

http://www.meetup.com/DFW-Strobist-Meetup-Group/

Come on over & join the fun. It's a little hectic since were growing so fast, but we'll get a handle on it.


And thanks for looking

Toyse

Nice Work.:D

rwells

Toyse wrote:

Nice Work.:D

Thanks Toyse


Where ya' been man?


Posted any cars lately?

Travis

Randy, those images rock! And the location was fantastic. We need to set up a strobist shoot around here.

rwells

Travis wrote:

Randy, those images rock! And the location was fantastic. We need to set up a strobist shoot around here.

Hey Travis,

I'm beginning to scratch my head about what might be wrong with my pics. 279 views and only 3 people left a comment.

Oh well


I appreciate you looking and leaving a comment. I tried to have a different look to most of these. Just to mix it up a bit. The location was fantastic!

Go ahead and set-up a Strobist group in your area. You'll get to meet a bunch of good folks, and get to share your knowledge and learn from others as you go.

Our strobist group has surprised us at how fast it's grown. 115 members in 5 weeks.

Travis

Can't answer the lack of comment question. It is funny how forum posts sometimes generate pages of replies and other times little at all. I would like to give a good critique on these but I'm a little rushed right now. I'll tell you that the first one stopped me in my tracks - gorgeous with a slightly different look. The pose in the second looked a bit forced but the lighting was good. The b/w conversions were great - actually most of the female shots were spectacular.

The male shots 11 & 13 weren't working for me - I don't know if it is the light or the processing. The others were good but lacked the intimacy of the female shots. Could it be how the photographer related to the subject?

I met up with another photographer friend earlier this evening and we are talking about setting up a strobist group. As soon as my day job travel dies down, I plan to give it a go.

The Mack

You could just post a few and link to the gallery instead of posting all 19 or w/e pictures.

rwells

Travis,

I appreciate your critique. As you probably know, I'm really a sports photographer who's moving camp

PM me whenever you get a strobist group going and I'll give you any info I have about the admin side of the group. Growing extremely fast does have its challenges.

Thanks again...

Travis wrote:

Can't answer the lack of comment question. It is funny how forum posts sometimes generate pages of replies and other times little at all. I would like to give a good critique on these but I'm a little rushed right now. I'll tell you that the first one stopped me in my tracks - gorgeous with a slightly different look. The pose in the second looked a bit forced but the lighting was good. The b/w conversions were great - actually most of the female shots were spectacular.

The male shots 11 & 13 weren't working for me - I don't know if it is the light or the processing. The others were good but lacked the intimacy of the female shots. Could it be how the photographer related to the subject?

I met up with another photographer friend earlier this evening and we are talking about setting up a strobist group. As soon as my day job travel dies down, I plan to give it a go.

rwells

The Mack wrote:

You could just post a few and link to the gallery instead of posting all 19 or w/e pictures.

Eric,

Thanks for the suggestion. But, I don't put pics like these (fun pics) in a "public" gallery on my site. I just have them in a hidden gallery (which may have a lot of other stuff in it) & link to them.

Thanks for looking

Ed911

Hey Randy,

Nice work. It's hard to give CC on the artistic part of your work...so I'll just say this...I like it...nicely done. And, I think the ring flash is working. Wesley is looking spot on. I'm liking the skin tones, and the background is crazy nice...very well done.

Nit...number eight...proximity warning...looks like you were a tad close. The model's hand nearest the camera looks a bit large, usually because the lens is to close to the model and not able to flatten the image. Moving back a little here will help make that hand fit the image better.

One other thing...a warehouse and props...could it be better...wow.

Wish I lived close enough to make your stobist meetups.

Thanks for sharing...looking forward to more posts from you.

rwells

Ed911 wrote:

Hey Randy,

Nice work. It's hard to give CC on the artistic part of your work...so I'll just say this...I like it...nicely done. And, I think the ring flash is working. Wesley is looking spot on. I'm liking the skin tones, and the background is crazy nice...very well done.

Nit...number eight...proximity warning...looks like you were a tad close. The model's hand nearest the camera looks a bit large, usually because the lens is to close to the model and not able to flatten the image. Moving back a little here will help make that hand fit the image better.

One other thing...a warehouse and props...could it be better...wow.

Wish I lived close enough to make your Strobist meetups.

Thanks for sharing...looking forward to more posts from you.

Ed,

Thanks for your input. Your spot on with that picture & the lens distortion.

I've got to test that ringflash (Ray Flash) more. One thing I don't like about it, is that when installed on your flash, it pulls the flash head down just enough to make it no longer "on lens axis". It's pointing downward some. The easy fix is to wrap a rubber band around the flash head "swivel" area, therefore not allowing the flash head to be pulled down. This does keep the ringflash on-axis, but I would have thought that the manufacturer would have allowed for this in the design.

Thanks again for your response.