Week 20
StudioMay 19, 2010
The last couple of weeks I've delved a little more into the studio. To now, I've not done a tremendous amount of studio work, preferring instead to shoot outside, or otherwise with natural lighting. This is partly because I have been shooting a fair amount of family portraits and weddings. Brides are pretty resistant to having their weddings held in a photo-studio, and while you can do family portraits with studio lighting, I MUCH prefer to keep it outside, where it seems personalities come out, and real "life" is captured.
The other reason I haven't done a lot of studio work is that I don't have a studio :). Not a regular one, at least. My good friend and very talented artist has been kind enough to share her studio when I've had the need, for which I am very grateful.
Now, having said all I just did, I don't want you to have the impression that I don't enjoy studio work. I actually do. There are some very, very cool things you can do with studio lighting and a controlled environment that just aren't possible (or are extremely difficult) anywhere else. The image above is not one of those difficult shots, but I like it all the same. Steven - fellow photographer and model for the shot above and I spent some time in the studio, shooting with some fairly basic lighting and got some great shots. I like the above shot for its lines, light & simplicity. We pulled my two low-wattage (750W) soft boxes around to camera right and played up the sunrise-oncoming train-"oh-no, a nuclear blast" thing a bit, an what you see above is one of the many results.
Hope you enjoy.
The other reason I haven't done a lot of studio work is that I don't have a studio :). Not a regular one, at least. My good friend and very talented artist has been kind enough to share her studio when I've had the need, for which I am very grateful.
Now, having said all I just did, I don't want you to have the impression that I don't enjoy studio work. I actually do. There are some very, very cool things you can do with studio lighting and a controlled environment that just aren't possible (or are extremely difficult) anywhere else. The image above is not one of those difficult shots, but I like it all the same. Steven - fellow photographer and model for the shot above and I spent some time in the studio, shooting with some fairly basic lighting and got some great shots. I like the above shot for its lines, light & simplicity. We pulled my two low-wattage (750W) soft boxes around to camera right and played up the sunrise-oncoming train-"oh-no, a nuclear blast" thing a bit, an what you see above is one of the many results.
Hope you enjoy.
image taken by a Canon XSi, 24-70 2.8L lens, at 1/125 sec at f/5.6. ISO 400
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