Archive for September, 2008:
Shoot the kids!
My day job is generally office based but occasionally it gets me out an about. A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to travel to Las Vegas to attend a conference, alright for some eh?! Anyway, in preparation to go away I realised that I didn’t have any recent portraits of my boys - a perfect excuse to set up the lights in the living room and get snapping!
They’re getting less tolerant of me and my camera these days and I only got a handful of shots of each of them - I preempted that state of mind and made sure that my lighting was spot on using Nicky as a model before getting them to pose. These are my favourites:
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The lighting is from three sources; there’s an umbrella softbox overhead at the front giving the main light and then two shoot-thru brolleys either side and behind that are adding the wrap-around rim light effect, the power is turned right down to keep it subtle. They’re flagged to stop light falling onto the background, which is a big pop-up reflector leaning against the patio door about 1.5 metres back. I shot these with a long lens to compress the perspective and make the most of the black background.
In retrospect I should have added some fill below their faces to lighten the shadows, a simple white reflector on the floor in front of them would have done trick I think!
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It’s been a long time coming, mostly spent procrastinating wildly, but today it’s here - my new site! I do hope you like it, I think it’s an improvement on the old static site and it gives me loads of scope for the future.
For me the busy season is always the run-up to Christmas this year is no different so having the new site all squared away means I can concentrate on the work at hand rather than wondering when I will find the time to ’sort out the new site’; those of you who know me will know how long this has been knocking around in ‘dev’!
So, onward and upward. I’ve just come back from a week in Las Vegas (!) with my day-job, visiting VMworld 2008. The place is a truly unique experience, not one that I want to experience again any time soon, but one that is quite unforgettable… This weekend coming we have a meet-up for my flickr group, Strobist: Norfolk and Norwich out at Burgh Castle. We’ve had a pretty quiet summer and it will be good to catch up with people again and hopefully see some new faces.
I’ve got some work to catch up on now that I’m back and the jet-lag is reducing; two sessions from the last three weeks who’ve both been understanding with my work induced delays to their prints. I’ll sign off now and get cracking with them.
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