Studio Portraits

All pictures were shot at 135mm.  

 This is the same picture as the one before it.  I couldn't decide if I liked it more with the desaturated tone or not, so I posted both.

This last picture is only to show my lighting setup.  The light on the left (closest to the camera), worked as the key light.  I added a scrim to help defuse the light.  The back light was bounced directly off of the back wall.  On the floor, I placed a third fixture and turned on only one bank.  This was used as a kicker to help add depth to camera right.

Portraits

these were shot at 135 mm.  The sun was the natural back light and a reflector was used to bounce light onto the front of Daniel's face to fill it in.

tight

These were not the tightest shots, there were taken with a 50mm lens.  However, this lens was enough to show the assets I was trying to emphasize.  With a tighter shot, the subjects and action is compressed into a single shot.  This helped in the first and last shots to add a sense of closeness and intimacy.  In all three shots, in combination with the aperture, the focal length helped to have a shallow depth of field.

Bracket

My Little Valentine

Shooting Wide

I really enjoyed this assignment.  I knew that I wanted to shoot at this script reading, but I didn't realize how little time I would have to do it.  I ended up only having less than one minute to take the photographs I needed.  Looking back at it, that was much more of a real life situation.  The action was happening, and I had to act quick.

I shot at 18mm.  It was fun to see how many different looks can be generated with a locked focal length.  Even when I got my "close up" of the paper, it gave a very wide view.  With this in mind, it then became all about framing.  The third picture in this series is one of my favorite pictures I have taken in recent history.