rat race - bob marley and the wailers

More photos! These are from the same day, with pretty much the same setup, the only real difference is the model, another one of my roommates, Sammy. She was the one I ended up turning head shots in of. So look and see! I should warn though, if you are the sort easily offended by Jesus related things, you should beware. Because we here at The Photographic Neophyte are somewhat... Sacrilicious. That's right. Both delicious and sacrilegious. And Jesus does make his appearances here. Indeed. But enjoy anyway, yes!



Ah, Sammy as we got started. Clearly my lighting was wrong but this gives you a sense of the space I work in.





Oh and look here, you can see my softbox poking in here in the corner. I LOVE YOU SOFTBOX!

Once more, I run right off the seamless, but look, there's how I set up my seamless. Indeed!

And the pissed off face!

And now here's Jesus and Sammy together

The end!

tiergarten - rufus wainwright

Ah! Long neglected photoblog, I return! My last post was done right before I started as a photo major at my current school, School of Visual Arts. Now, with almost two years of art school under my belt, I'm like a real photographer. A fucking wizard of cameras and stuff. Though the big problem is now that I'm really exploring a lot more photographic stuff, I'm finding that I'm fucking addicted to 4x5 film. ADDICTED. It's a problem. And the thing is that not only is 4x5 expensive but it's also film, so hard to get online. I have to scan it. And it's a pain in the ass. But shooting large format is so much fun. An experience every photographer must have!

So I spent last Sunday in the studio, shooting two of my roommates. I'm posting these in sections, so stay tuned for more. First up, Marissa.

First, we started with the basic head shot. My photo on assignment class had us do head shots and character shots this past week. I planned to shoot Sammy but as Marissa was in the studio with me anyway (we were doing an artist trade, so I was shooting some other things with her), I figured I'd test things out.

I pretty much kept my lighting set up the same for the whole shoot. Head shots require a lack of dark shadows and while character shots can have the dark shadows, I just am really fond of this light. What is my setup you might be asking? Well here, I drew a really terrible thing to show you what it generally looks like.



In case you are curious! WB is white board, this is a large board, probably seven feet tall, that I set up to bounce some light back into my frame. BD is my backdrop, I just used a black seamless. The lightness you'll notice in these photos and the ones from Sammy's shoot comes from the fact that I didn't bother to move my lights or my subject away from the seamless. It's part laziness and part the fact that it gives my seamless just a little texture. Awesome! X is clearly my subject and SB is my lighting of choice, a medium softbox. Has there ever existed a more awesome piece of lighting equipment? I think not. But photographers, tell me, what is your lighting choice? Softboxes just happen to be my lighting porn.

Oh, and everything was shot on my little Canon Rebel XTi, using a pocket wizard (another thing I now ADORE) that I borrowed from the cage. That thing is also magic!

Ah, at this point, we switched over from the Russian spy character to some sort of student/teacher kind of thing. In some of these photos you see off the edges of my seamless, though I did not post any of those because ick, not interesting and not very good. Yeah, when I'm not tethered to a strobe kit, I forget about the limits of seamless. Need to get better about that!