Sean with a guitar

JabfingerJabfinger Registered Users Posts: 125 Major grins
edited March 11, 2014 in People
Took a drive out to Midwest Photo(is that legal to say) and got a new 2x3 softbox. First softbox I have used. I've been using a bunch of different "junk combinations" to try and get light like this. Its nice to get/use a good tool every once in a while. Anyway


#1
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#2
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#3
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Oh yeah, I bought a C-Stand to go with it as well. Love that thing

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  • Bryce WilsonBryce Wilson Registered Users Posts: 1,586 Major grins
    edited February 26, 2014
    Really nice light coming from that new soft-box. Really, really like the background treatment too.

    I like number one the best. Even though I'm not generally a fan of shooting from a low vantage point, it works quite nicely here. Me, I'd "shop" out the soft box reflection in his sun-glass lens.

    2. Don't like the predominance of the hand holding the guitar at the bottom of the image. It keeps drawing my attention to it and have a similar issue with 3.
  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited February 26, 2014
    Congrats and what you have done here. I agrree with Bryce's comments except for me glass has reflections so I would make it more obvious by using a larger opaque surface in front of the box. I've built a 3ish by 6ft pvc pipe frame and covered it with a bed sheet in front of the box. People are bothered by small glare in glasses but for some reason accept really large ones.

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  • JabfingerJabfinger Registered Users Posts: 125 Major grins
    edited February 27, 2014
    Thanks Bryce and Hackbone. I get what you are saying about the hands but I like the big hand/long finger look on a guitar player, I only wish they were more in focus and maybe his pointer finger a bit closer to his other fingers. I wish my hands were that big so I could make those real wide stretches that guitar players have to make. I attempted to black out the reflection in the glasses during post on one of the shots and did not like the outcome. It appeared fake. There is probably a better way to do it than what I attempted but the reflections don't bother me that much. I will have to try placing something big and white as Hackbone suggested but I am thinking that that may reflect the orange from the background so you would end up with a white and an orange reflection. But then again that might be interesting as well
  • KinkajouKinkajou Registered Users Posts: 1,240 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2014
    I love the first one! It looks like the vignette overlaps his face/forehead a bit in all three so that his cheek looks brighter than his forehead. Can you potentially lighten up the vignette in just that area to preserve the beautiful, even light that you achieved with the softbox?
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  • jmphotocraftjmphotocraft Registered Users Posts: 2,987 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2014
    As a guitar player, these don't sit right with me because he isn't holding the guitar in any way a guitar player would ever hold a guitar, even when not playing. And the tilt of his head plus the shades gives him a Stevie Wonder blind look.
    -Jack

    An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
  • JabfingerJabfinger Registered Users Posts: 125 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2014
    Thanks for the critique Kinkajou and jmphotocraft. Ever is a very very long time jm but I get what you are saying...
  • T H O RT H O R Registered Users Posts: 34 Big grins
    edited March 11, 2014
    That is a different take on what I'm used to seeing and so far I think it offers a unique perspective for the client. I think the color and angles and demeanor of the photos fits this client pretty well at for his age. Nicely well done. And I like the faded Tony that you did to the photos as well.

    Todd
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