Simple Yet Effective

Here's a closeup of Norris Frederick from our first shoot. If you know me then you know I'm obsessed with lighting in general. I love complicated multiple light setups to bring attentention to a specific object or place in the frame. However, lately, I've found comfort and beauty in single light setups. They're much more organic and feel so real. I thought this was fitting for a man like Norris, because he is the real deal! Lit with a single gridded beauty dish through Einstein 640 boomed overhead. No reflector no rim. http://flic.kr/p/nPkNAp

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Lit with Beauty Dish boomed overhead and two gridded rims on either side. Plm served as fill behind camera and silver reflector on b800 behind the subject onto the background http://flic.kr/p/mZAAWh

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Lit with beauty dish boomed out of frame camera right. Gridded strip for rim camera left and gridded strip much more in front camera right with PLM serving as fill behind camera. http://flic.kr/p/mZyNSB

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Lit with beauty dish boomed out of frame camera right. Gridded strip for rim camera left and gridded strip much more in front camera right with PLM serving as fill behind camera. http://flic.kr/p/mZAB6L

Towards the Light

It's been a while since I've posted images because I've been so busy but that doesn't mean I haven't been taking them! Here's a fun Photoshop edit of David in between children at a school shoot. Playing around with some lighting effects (render lighting) and atmospherics fog(render clouds) with a touch of lens flare (render lens flare) Simple tools put to good use with a layers mask and a few tricks, compliments of Aaron Nace from Phlearn! Lit with a single x3200 super high and camera left with a grid to tighten the beam of the light. It was a long exposure to let the ambient light from the light fixtures in and worked well since David Jumped during the exposure. His transparency is not Photoshopped. http://flic.kr/p/hjmZjX