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Mucking around in our 'studio' if you can call a small photo dungeon (office) in the basement of the student center lacking windows, decent airflow or even a backdrop, just a good ol painted white wall. This is where most of the magic happens in terms of last minute/stock photos/photos using lights happens that get published in the paper :D
Courtney had dropped by before we were going to grab lunch (at 2:30 so sadly the Chinese food place on campus was closed by now and I wanted the usual tofu and pork) and she was wearing her new cardigan that I had picked up for her birthday (that was just a few days back) which I ordered from adidas slvr when they were having their crazy 50% off everything year end sale! I had a boom with an ab800 and white umbrella set up and asked if she wanted to take some pictures but she said make it quick and didn't want it to be complicated (because she hates how long it takes me to setup to take a photo, whether that be focusing with my leica/hassy or grabbing a flash and fixing the settings on my camera to take a decent photo...she just wants things done in one click no hassle ;) ) so I didn't have time to setup the backlights to blow out the background. I shot some standard fullbody portraits and then thought, why not try some hair whipping photos? and that lead me to lowering my shutter speed which let this cool ambient light and and voila! Cool motion blur/flash/colour pictures! Something a little different then what I shoot and I really like the results! We tried flipping from both sides and up and down as well, but found left to right worked the best due to her part and after controlling her expression from the :D everyone does from whipping their head side to side to a closed mouth, we were really happy with the look! I chose this one in particular because of the smooth lines from her hair and overall cleanness of the frame.
Been a super busy week between covering the just now completed student presidential elections and assignments along with planning the locations/shots/models/equipment for our annual Sex and the Steel City special issue which we will be shooting photos for this weekend! We had a small budget allotted so I was able to pick up some profoto heads, power pack, strip banks, soft boxes and a mola demi beauty dish to test out! I'm glad I've been acquainting myself with strobes so that we'll be able to make good use of them this year.
Time for much needed sleeps before a busy weekend of shooting and a Saturday midterm boooooooooooooooooo!
TGIF.
Strobist
Alien Bee 800 boomed high infront of model with shoot thru umbrella 1/16th power
Triggered with sync cable
Wall for power
Canon 5d mk II
Canon 85mm f/1.2 L II @ 2.8
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