Category Archives: Studio Lighting

An 18th Century Lady

From our portrait class last Wednesday night. Caroline came in full 18th century dress. And when I say “full,” I mean down to her corset!

 

Pheenix

Pheenix was one of our volunteer models on Wednesday night. She’s a beauty.

These portraits were shot using fluorescent lights. Pulled back to show a bit of the set up.

Stepping out from behind the camera

I’ve known Eric for a few years now. He is a fellow photographer and on Wednesday night he was assisting in Jeff Ross’ studio portrait class. We students cajoled him into stepping out of the dark and into the light (which in this case was two fluorescent lights to camera left).
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How I Spent my Sunday, Part 2

Daughter came over to help me with my lighting assignment – portrait using a continuous light source and a flash/strobe.  On the advice of our instructor, I shot her with a much longer lens than the previous week. I’m quite pleased with the results.

Ali doing her best Blue Steel and trying not to laugh. See “Zoolander”

Lovely!

And one in black and white . . .

And here is the best of the motion blur effect I tried to replicate. Given the ambient light in the room, it wasn’t as strong as I’d hoped it would be. Still, it has a bit of an ethereal, Mona Lisa quality to it. This was shot at 100 ISO, 1/13s at f/3.5. After pressing the shutter I zoomed in to create the blur and halo around her face.  Next time I’ll do this in a darker room.  I did not block off the windows as carefully as I usually do.

Can I recreate this at home?

I am pretty sure I can. I’ll find out on Sunday. I’ve got the lights, the shower curtain, and the ability.

From Wednesday night’s portrait class in Jeff Ross’ studio.

Lighting Practice – Single source lighting – Alison

I think I like this one of my daughter is my favorite of the bunch from our shoot on Sunday.  I’m going to try this again with a different lens and a little more of a smile.

Direct light over her shoulder and reflected into her face using a white poster board

Sierra and Mariya

Some of you have already met Mariya from previous shoots. Today she, and her friend, Sierra, came over to do some studio work. Here are a few from today’s session. I’m still working through them, so I will be posting more soon.