Bed Time Storys

I haven't had a lot of inspiration regarding composites lately. There are so many amazing images online to draw from, but the more images I see the harder it can be to find my own vision. This popped in my head last night and I just had to execute! Lit with 60" Photoflex SoftlighterII above camera with Einstein E640 2x AB800's through gridded striplights for rim. http://flic.kr/p/nTxCbM

Bench Babes

I've been wanting to shoot with my crazy concoction for quite some time now! I figured out a way to sync my big studio strobe with my flash at 1250th of a second all the way up to 2500th of a second!! That means I can shoot wide open or close to it in the daylight with flash! I wanted to try it out on my own family photos before I used it for clients. I'm pretty confident now and the results speak for themselves. This was lit with a large PLM camera right. http://flic.kr/p/naPaP8

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www.nakean.com http://flic.kr/p/naPwMD

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www.nakean.com http://flic.kr/p/naPxnX

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www.nakean.com http://flic.kr/p/naPbhH

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Clements Family Photo

Love this family! It's fun photographing old friends I haven't seen in years. It never really feels like work! This was lit with black background with 1/2 cto gel on the background through white lighting x800. The key light was an Einstein through a large Softbox camera right. Fill was provided by EXD400 in Paul Buff PLM camera left. Rim and hair light with gridded softboxes on either side and high. http://flic.kr/p/mUfRsR

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http://flic.kr/p/mUfGiR

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http://flic.kr/p/mUfGCZ

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http://flic.kr/p/mUfQQZ

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http://flic.kr/p/mUhJmy

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http://flic.kr/p/mUfHoM

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http://flic.kr/p/mUhJTq

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http://flic.kr/p/mS6eYM

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http://flic.kr/p/mS82Tu

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http://flic.kr/p/mS6ozn

Mr. Personality

I absolutely love this shot of Keith! It's screams, "hay! Here I am." Quite a bit of work be done in this photograph as these glasses were THICK! They reflected everything right back at the camera. Originally the fill light reflections were quite large blocking parts of the eyes. They are no more :) My second issue was the Beauty dish hung in the frame just over his head. It's gone now! The pattern and flare are from the strip lights on either side and that's something I didn't want to remove, as it give this image it's icing on the cake IMHO. Let me know what you think! The usual recipe with boomed beauty dish above softbox behind for fill. Two rim lights through gridded softboxes(grid give pattern on the background right). Shot in my West Seattle Garage Studio. http://flic.kr/p/mfbUC6

Standing Tall

Lit with Beauty dish overhead No fill this time around. gridded stripboxes for rim light on either side. Background is an overlay and actually placed on top of the image instead of behind. This helps maintain the shadows in the original image. http://flic.kr/p/mdxSQs