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codiac2600 · February 12, 2009

My friend Elly is an amazing photographer and was willing to be on the other end of the camera for the first time. She has always wanted to learn more about posing and lighting so I gave her the lesson the hard way, but she loved it and here are the results.

Always teaching... seems I'll never stop.

More images at http://fotoenvy.smugmug.com/gallery/7341224_XTUQr

Flutist · February 12, 2009

Wow I really like them all!

codiac2600 · February 13, 2009

Flutist wrote:

Wow I really like them all!

Thank you so much!

DeuceFour · February 13, 2009

Wow!! Sweet set of photos!! I checked the ones on your site too, I think there great!! Is that a parking garage? I have always loved that Industrial "look". I have one question though.. would you mind sharing your lighting setup for the garage/white dress shots? That would be awesome! Thanks bro!

Cheers!

DeuceFour · February 13, 2009

Chris...Just have to say I spent some time looking around your site....damn you got some sick stuff on there! Very Nice!!

-Brandon

codiac2600 · February 13, 2009

Thank you so much Brandon

The lighting setup for the first image was very interesting. I didn't want my light showing up and streaking across the pavement because then it would be too obvious. So I used an SB 900 triggered with a Multimax Pocket Wizard at 1/32nd power. I believe the Iso on that was 640. I chose this number based on the light above her which came out about 1/64th at the same settings. I set the light up as high as I could get it in a 40" shoot through umbrella on camera right about 9-10ft away. On camera left was a helper holding a silver reflector in the 42X72 inch variety moving some of that ambient light towards her. Then I set her back about 10 feet from the setup and had her walk forward and snapped away.

Oh... and on all the shots I gelled the strobe to whatever the overhead lighting was so that first one had a CTO gel.

Second image is a shoot through umbrella SB900 with fluorescent gel attached since the light behind and in front were capped shop lights. The flash was stationed above 5ft from the corner on camera left at 1/16th power -0.3ev.

Third and fourth image had the most difficult setup I came up with. There is a wall you can't see in the shot on camera right/model left that is completely white. I used the SB900 about 10ft model right/camera left through an umbrella with a CTO gel to warm it up and match the tungstens and positioned the light to spill mostly towards the wall and kick back towards the model causing the small rim light on her left arm. I had to boost the camera beyond ISO 1000 to get the effect but I was going for industrial and I love the grain so it worked well.

All one light and all trying to look as natural as possible. Gotta say that I fell in love with the MultiMax's that night as the audible alert totally rocked plus they just look cooler

Scott_Quier · February 13, 2009

These are excellent. I also did a short tour through your model galleries - WOW, that's some excellent work!

This young lady needs be in front of the camera more often. She is smoke'in! I really like #1 and #3 of this set - just WOW.

divamum · February 13, 2009

All I've got is.... wow.

Fabulous series (from both of you)!!

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