Insomnia and Idle Hands
This was an idea I’ve had bouncing around my head for a while now. Being the Daylight Savings changeover always throws off my sleep schedule, I was up late and wide awake. Why not give it a try. The lighting came out as perfect as planned. Sadly, my positioning was a little off. It’s pretty ...
Choke! An experiment in lighting.
This is what happens when I have two friends hanging out in the studio. One of them had a questions about creating a low-key subject with a high-key background. I set up the lighting and went to take a picture, but they were not satisfied with taking a simple portrait. Next thing I know one ...
Too Serious (Self Portrait)
Every day I try to spend 30 minutes on a different lighting setup. Today’s was trying to appear strong, dark, contrasty, and even a little gloomy. The lighting was fairly simple. I stepped into the edge of a downward facing beauty dish with 30-degree grid at 1/1. To give my head (and only head) a ...
Self Portraits Part 1
This is just a quick update as I’ve been very busy lately. So I have this lighting equipment sitting around and want to do something with it. Sadly my free time for the week week is all allocated. My solution? Using my lunch break to take a self portrait or two. Every day is different ...
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