7 posts tagged “portrait”

My cousin Hayley is all sorts of cute, and this picture makes me smile every time I look at it. This photo was taken Christmas morning. She was unbelievably wired and all-too-anxious to open presents.

Check it:

• Nikon D300 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
• 1/100 sec at f/1.4, ISO 3200
• In-camera monochrome Picture Control with added sharpness and contrast.
• RAW image edited in Lightroom to match camera LCD preview as close as possible.

I think I’m going to be shooting a lot more low-light images in black and white. This is just too awesome.

(BTW, this is Jeremy. He’s a kick-ass photographer.)

Kimberley and Kirt said they wanted to do some jump shots as part of their session. So, we went up to the roof of Mia’s apartment building, set up some lights, and did some jumps in the dark. It was awesome.

Here’s Kimberley and Kirt posing for a relatively atypical couple portrait session. They didn’t want anything that looked like portrait studio or fashion work, so we just goofed off in Mia’s apartment building until we got tired of shooting.

I met Lisa and Anna the other night during the Flickr/Strobist shoot at a parking garage on the UW campus. They were just passing through with one of Allen’s friends, and while the guys were talking, I asked if they wanted to model for me. They hesitated for a bit but eventually agreed.

Once I got the OK, I setup a couple of lights next to one of the blank concrete walls, fired off a few test shots to get my exposure, then did a whole series of the girls individually and together. Lisa (on the left) was a little unsure about the whole thing, but I did manage to get her to relax and smile without looking too nervous and tentative. Anna (on the right) had no problems modeling for me. She seemed to be having a lot of fun, because it was tough to get her to not smile.

I’ve shown my picks from the shoot to Lisa and Anna, and they both love the shots I got. In fact, they’re both interested in doing another shoot with me. I guess this just goes to show that it never hurts to ask people if it’s OK to photograph them. It’s also good to have business cards on you, so those people can contact you later. ;)

More photos from my impromptu shoot with Lisa and Anna are available in my Flickr photostream.

Here are some images from the second half of Wednesday's photoshoot with Robyn. For this series, I had Robyn climb onto a neat rope web thing on the playground, and I lit her with two flashes in shoot-through umbrellas. My goal was to kill as much ambient light as possible and focus on using only artificial light. I also played around with rim lighting and high-key lighting for a more edgy fashion look to the shots. I'm pretty happy with how the images turned out. I would've liked to have had just one more flash for fill, but two is plenty for now. It forces me to be a bit more resourceful and creative.

The main keepers from the shoot are now in my Flickr set devoted to Robyn. Yeah, it's getting to the point where I make entire sets just of individual models I shoot. Love it.

I met up with Robyn on Wednesday evening for a photo shoot at Wilburton Hill Park to get in some portrait shooting/lighting practice. It was pretty cloudy all day, and I thought the clouds would hang around for the shoot and kill any sort of interesting natural light. Luckily for us, the sun burst out at the last moment to give us some gorgeous golden light. Of course, Robyn's generally sunny disposition would've kept things fun regardless, but no one's going to complain about some warmth and sunlight during what is supposed to be a summer month.

The shoot ended up going really well. I had a chance to practice shooting some portraits, giving direction to a model, and, of course, working with lights. We worked with natural light, sunlight with artificial fill light, and full on artificial lights. Hanging out with Robyn was also quite fun.

Here are a few shots from the natural light and mixed light portion of the shoot. I'm still processing the last set and should have them online soon. Check here or on my Flickr photostream for the latest updates.