Take Flight

A little gem from our shoot a while back! Love this girl and her spunky attitude! Thanks, Erin, for being you! Lit with beauty dish boomed above. Stripboxes on either side with ab800's and ab800 behind for background light. www.nakean.com http://flic.kr/p/jXju1c

Goldilocks and her Kawasaki

-One of my favorite images of Erin in front of her 250cc Kawasaki we managed to get into the the studio Wednesday. Oh yeah we busted out the fan baby! The lighting was a little more tricky than I was used to. I pulled the grids off the softbox eventually but think they were still on at this point. They were placed between Erin and the bike in order to perform double duty. I needed them to light both Erin as rim lights but also add definition to the bike. I could have lit the bike with the main light as well as Erin but that would have been much more flat. I think the striplights help bring her away from the bike and keep them as separate entities. Not an easy feat with the space we were working with. We had a light gridded and attached to a rafter above to light the background and last but most important a gridded beauty dish boomed above to light Erin. http://flic.kr/p/j74je4

Silent Storm

Getting setup for my last shoot, I thought I'd take a few test shots. shush, don't tell anyone. I wanted to play with some brushes as it's been a while since I dug them up in their dusty folders on my computer. A bit of Render Clouds, Lightning brushes and smoke brushes along with a composite background. Lit with Beauty dish boomed overhead and striplights on either side for the rim. Background light placed behind me and pointed at the background for som separation. Best part of using backgrounds in overlay blending mode is that they keep the overall lighting you had in the original image. If you had a background light on gray paper it will still appear to have the same background light in your composite! http://flic.kr/p/j4EUp7

Ready to Ride

Had a great time with Erin in the studio today with her bike and motocross gear! Here's one of the images I could wait to get to and start editing. Thanks again Erin! Lit with stripboxes on either side with grids removed for rim. Einstein 640 on lowest power for just a touch of fill inside the helmet. b800 behind her on gray background for background light. http://flic.kr/p/j3L6CU

Who Framed Roger Rabit

My assistant Erin kicked ars each and every 14 hours we spent photographing Friday morning and afternoon! Spunky attitude and quick witt helped us get through this long day! Thanks for the help setting up these shots for Seattle Prep Soccer photos! This pose and eyebrow totally made me think of the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit! Lit with a single light through an umbrella camera right and feathered into a reflector camera left. I had a rim setup behind subject and camera left but turned it off to judge my exposure for skin tones. The best way to know what your lights are doing is to turn them on all one at a time. http://flic.kr/p/fQY8a1