This is a sort of behind the scenes video, taking place on a variety of shoots throughout Denver Colorado, Denmark and Sweden. The photo shoots took place over the past year and were for a few of my different clients. The video was filmed/edited in a way that made sure not to show any confidential information or details about each of my jobs/clients. It’s a fun video directed and edited by Sam Miller of Rehab. Sam did a great job editing, picking the music and getting some really cool, interesting shots. It was fun working with you on these jobs and thanks for using the outtakes for this video Sam.
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Here are three different shoots with three different color temperatures and contrast levels. Each shows how color and contrast can effect the look and overall mood of the photograph.
The first image is a much warmer shot with a hint of green to give a unique vintage feel. The second shot is very low-contrast with a more neutral color to evoke a soft carefree emotion. The third shot is much more dramatic with a rich blue and high contrast adjustment to feel very moody. It definitely gives the feeling of dusk.
It can be really fun to play with light at different times of day with different color balancing to help add to the model’s attitude and the feeling the viewer takes from the image. You can create these different temperatures in many different ways ranging from kelvin temperatures on your camera or RAW editing software, gelling lights, mixing different color balanced light sources or playing with filters.
These are just a few examples of limitless possibilities.
Photos were styled by Tina Gill with Worthwhile Style. Hair by Hilary Hackney and makeup by Dina Nast.
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Someone asked me the other day the best way to take soft, beautiful photos outdoors in the middle of the day. This is never the best scenario for photographs, as we all know. But not every advertising and editorial photo shoot can be taken at twilight. So, I pulled a few images from recent shoots I’ve done with just that situation.
There are many solutions for this problem, however I chose to showcase one solution in a few different examples. If anyone is interested in knowing other solutions, just let me know and I’ll do another posting.
So, this solution is simple and clean… back-lighting the subject. Sounds easy enough, but there are a few things to keep in mind while doing this. In the middle of the day when the sun is burning down from above, you need to find just the right angle to capture your subject where they are being lit behind by the sun and the sun isn’t rolling over on them too much to cause dramatic, distracting sun spots. This will all depend on the model’s skin tone, body and face shape, clothing and location. Sometimes you can find a tree to help diffuse the sun a bit, but still catch the light coming through without looking splotchy. This one can be tricky, but my suggestion would be to test, test, test. The more you experiment with this type of lighting situation the more you’ll come to recognize in what scenes you need to angle and position what people.
Also, you’ll most likely want some sort of a fill light so the background isn’t so blown out and skin isn’t too dark. You can use strobes or fill cards for this. But remember when using fill cards to have them be as close to the camera angle as possible and to hold them up high. You don’t want to “monster light” your subject from the front and create dark shadows in unnatural places.
Anyway, I hope this helps with the common problem many photographer’s face.
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These are some shots from a fun shoot on the Big Island of Hawaii. The dedicated surfers here hike through miles of rough edged lava to get to the best black sand beaches with the perfect waves. Here are a couple of shots that I liked from the trek to the beach through the solid lava. What an amazing “secret” little spot!
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