I just got back from spending some time setting up for tomorrow’s Photowalking Utah event. The event theme is studio lighting and will feature nine different lighting setups for the participants to try. The setup I am doing features a trampoline. Here is one of my test shots from tonight. Pretty cool, eh?
Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24-105 f/4L lens – 1/160 second, f/6.3, ISO 100
Last night’s Photowalking Utah mini-clinic at the Salt Lake City Library was a huge success. I am constantly blown away by the popularity of these events and last night set a new high-water mark for attendance. Over 170 photographers attended the evening’s discussion about Studio Lighting.
The mid-winter studio lighting photowalk has constantly been one of the most popular events since the group’s beginning in 2007. I believe that it is the unfamiliarity that many amateur photographers have working with studio lighting that draws them to this event. Beginning in 2009, a mini-clinic with lighting/model instruction was held a few days before the Saturday photowalk to help familiarize the attendees with techniques that can be used when shooting with the lights.
Yesterday’s event featured myself and two other photographers demonstrating techniques of working with a model and lights. Huge thanks go out to Dav.d Daniels and David Terry. These guys shared their knowledge and techniques to the eager audience in ways that were both education and humorous.
Based on last night’s attendance, I believe it will be safe to say that there will be around 200 photographers at tomorrow’s outing photographing the dozen+ models in the nine studio setups. It promises to be an exciting day.
Lastly, more HUGE thanks to our friends at Pictureline (and especially Nick, Jacob & Amy at the Draper location). They were kind enough to loan us the ProFoto lighting kit that was used in last night’s demonstration. This same kit can be rented from the Draper location (801.572.2200) at a very reasonable day rate.
Have a great weekend. I can’t wait to see many of you at tomorrow’s photowalk. I’ll be the guy hanging out by the trampoline studio setup :)
p.s. For those interested, here is the lighting setup that was used as a starting point for last night’s demonstration:
Julie’s mom spotted her lovely daughter selling chicken in a web ad recently. Nice find!
Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 70-200 f/4L with 1.4x extender – 1/2500 second, f/5.6, ISO 400
Here’s a behind-the-scenes shot taken by Nicole at Saturday’s movie theater shoot. The Movie Pirate image I was shooting was a great suggestion by Jeremy Hall to include in the set of audience pictures.
I’m back in the office after a busy morning with the movie theater photo shoot in Salt Lake City. We had over 90 people participate in it and after a quick look at the images I can say I am extremely pleased with what we created.
I will write a more detailed blog post about the outing in the coming days but I wanted to make a quick one today to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated. From the check-in team to the lighting guys to the prop team to the audience members and everyone else, you all went above and beyond in making today a success.
Please accept a sincere thank you. I absolutely could not do what I do without help from great people like you!
Now go and have a great weekend :)
I spent this afternoon capturing images for my stock photo portfolio in an eyelash salon. My desire in creating stock images is to capture real people in normal situations, and photographing a model getting eyelash extensions fit nicely with this goal.
I used my typical location lighting setup consisting of numerous softbox equipped monolights. Even though I brought along four lights, the combination of natural window light and small shooting space meant that I only used two of the lights. For the sample shot above, I have a 36″ octabox just to the left of the camera and a 48″ octabox placed to the right and away from the camera providing fill light. The window light is coming from behind the camera.
I’ve got a dozen or so images from today’s session to edit and add to my portfolio. It will be interesting to see how much demand there is for eyelash extension photos.
Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 24-105 f/4L lens – 1/125 second, f/9, ISO 10
