An ordinary shoot

1/125th 5.6 ISO 160

both backdrop lights @ 1/4 power
rim @ 1/8 + .7 power
umbrella shooted light, camera right, @1/2 power

1/250th 5.6 ISO 160

SB 24, beside monitor, @ 1/8 power
SB 80dx, from POV of this shot, @ 1/8 power
Vivitar 285HV, aimed at ceiling, @ 1/4 power

SB 80dx @ 1/4 power

Quick look at portraiture tips

Check out this pdf for a quick learning to posing. 1.4MB
Originally created here.

Colorizing Lighting

Using colored gels on your flashes could help or hurt an image. I believe that my sample below is one that color lighting deters from image greatness. Posing aside, an environment's lighting can help draw better connections between the subject and background; however my choice of color for the background flash makes the environment seem unnatural. The viewer's eyes would focus on the background first rather than the subject. After this shot, I decided to forgo the colorized lighting and use plain bare bulb lighting. Deciding which color to use provides more options but makes it much harder to achieve image greatness.

1/60 f4 ISO 200

Film vs Digital: is this a fair challenge?

Check out the experiment here.
See the end of the video for the result. But was it fair for the experiment to conclude which format was better? (35mm against 12MP digital was the case) Within film we have 35mm but why not test against medium format, or even large format film for the matter?
Within digital, we have the DSLRs but then again, why not pit film against digital backs such as Phase One?

Shoot from Friday

More or less of a free form shoot. It is for a photography final.

CO-OP for photography finals

I will be helping myself and others with the finals for my/their photography classes all daylight Friday. Anyone can tag along (I have time to digress from project) or converse in discussion, email lpn071000@utdallas.edu or call 214 718 2387 to find out where I'm at during that Friday.

Daniel's first post

Yo! Just want to thank all the models who worked with me. I also would like to thank Long and Hubert for inviting me to the various shoots. Anyways here's some of my stuff...





Check out the rest at... http://flickr.com/photos/danielsong/

Boy, was I wrong about the release date

Radio Popper Juniors are sure taking a long time to release.
So you guys are stuck without off camera lighting for a while (unless you can afford Pocket Wizards). Non-wireless works too you know, use PC sync cords for wired off camera lighting. Wireless gets too much hype now a days.
In the meantime, look into how to improve posing your model. Some posing how-to books out there but not as much as the technical lighting books. And there are reasons for their small source which I'd rather tell you in person.

Front of SU

Hubert's always calling in model support for us. Thanks!


Watch your batteries as colder weather kicks in.

Photoshoot from last thursday

So I recently got myself a couple wireless receivers and a transmitter from AlienBees and I had problems from the start. The construction of the receivers is very cheap. There is no way to hang the Cybersyncs from the light stands and also, the batteries didn't stay compressed inside the recievers. So one of my receivers wouldn't stay on. I had to mess with it for quite a while and luckily my subject was patient. Anyways, here's some of my photos:



Model: Zackariahh Hamze
This was taken on campus at UTD next to the SOM building.


Model: Zackariahh Hamze
Zack's having a little fun at the end.



Model: Zackariahh Hamze
Inside the SOM building.