On Monday of this week I did a photoshoot for a local radio announcer that is building a website to promote his voice talents for radio and tv spots. I have been trying to build up a portfolio of people photos to help me gain some freelance photo work myself. I will post some of the highlight photos later in another post.
While processing the photos my first run through the batch is to mark my rejects (i.e. out of focus, bad composition, blinkies, etc.) In Lightroom I just quickly hit the X key as I cycle through the shoot to mark my rejects. Usually I hide my rejects from my views so I can quickly pair down the photos I need to review to output for proofs. While I was marking the rejects I mistakenly marked another photo with an X when I wanted to mark it as a P (a pick.) So I turned my filter view back to show all and this photo was near it. For some reason I took a closer look at it and decided to spend about 2 minutes playing with it.
While processing the photos my first run through the batch is to mark my rejects (i.e. out of focus, bad composition, blinkies, etc.) In Lightroom I just quickly hit the X key as I cycle through the shoot to mark my rejects. Usually I hide my rejects from my views so I can quickly pair down the photos I need to review to output for proofs. While I was marking the rejects I mistakenly marked another photo with an X when I wanted to mark it as a P (a pick.) So I turned my filter view back to show all and this photo was near it. For some reason I took a closer look at it and decided to spend about 2 minutes playing with it.
I boosted the exposure, did some curve adjustments, and converted to
black and white. For some reason I really like this mistake. I love the
look he is giving me and I like the texture his skin has in the photo.
For this photo shoot I had two 580EX flashes firing through shoot through umbrellas. I had one directly behind him pointing at a brownish wall at half power to make the background white. I had another to his left front at about 90 degrees firing at quarter power. The front umbrella didn't fire (batteries were starting to go.) The light from the back bounced off the side walls and ceiling and even off the front umbrella to give this weird back lighting effect. The back strobe ended up being the key light and everything else was the fill. This type of effect gives me ideas on how I can capitalize on this type of look. Lighting from the back is an interesting concept and I will need to play around with this idea some more.
For this photo shoot I had two 580EX flashes firing through shoot through umbrellas. I had one directly behind him pointing at a brownish wall at half power to make the background white. I had another to his left front at about 90 degrees firing at quarter power. The front umbrella didn't fire (batteries were starting to go.) The light from the back bounced off the side walls and ceiling and even off the front umbrella to give this weird back lighting effect. The back strobe ended up being the key light and everything else was the fill. This type of effect gives me ideas on how I can capitalize on this type of look. Lighting from the back is an interesting concept and I will need to play around with this idea some more.
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