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April 27, 2011 · 3:39 pm

#6 Advanced Color Portrait – Alien Bee On-Location

Considering the weather hasn’t been particularly favorable for taking studio lights outside, and I don’t particularly like lugging around a twenty pound Vagabond, I decided to do my alien bees photoshoot indoors. And to do something different than I normally do for portrait class, I rounded up my friends and asked them to be part of a group photoshoot- one where we played to the idea of “If our life was a movie.”

You can see all the fun and games on the Flickr Slideshow, but here are the best seven, each with its own star of the show.

Flickr Slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbibb/sets/72157626471144669/show/

SBibb - Group Shot

SBibb - Group Shots

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April 11, 2011 · 6:03 am

#4 Adv. Color Portrait – Seniors

For advanced color portrait we needed to take pictures of high school seniors. Both to fulfill the class assignment and to get examples for my senior portraits business I’m starting up, I took pictures of four seniors for free, giving them one hour each for shooting (both inside the library with my alien bee lights and outside) and 10 fully retouched photos on a disk for them to print as they like.

Flickr Slideshows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbibb/sets/72157626340368366/show/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbibb/sets/72157626244371747/show/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbibb/sets/72157626247284825/show/

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April 7, 2011 · 11:09 am

Advanced Color Portrait: Q-Flash In-class Shoot

Today in class, Professor Schmidt took the class outside around campus with two Q-Flashes (one for a soft fill, and one as a hairlight) and a bunch of pocket wizards (so a lot of flashes ensued). Pictures were taken in various areas and students were swapped out as models. The main problem was getting the flash to show up in the pictures. Raise the flash, less recycles and more chances of missing the shot with so many people shooting.

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March 24, 2011 · 4:13 am

Senior Portrait Tips – Jennifer

I’m planning on starting up a senior portrait business in Warrensburg this summer, but that means I need more examples to create advertisements and show just what I can do. So over Spring Break I decided to try and photograph some seniors for free- they got a free one hour session and ten fully retouched photos on a CD that they can print themselves or order prints through me.

Since it’s been a while since I’ve been to my hometown, Mom talked to a few people she knew, contacting a homeschooling group that might want senior pictures.

Never underestimate the power of social networks and free sessions. I photographed Jennifer yesterday, and these are a few of the resulting pictures. I also have two photoshoots today, with a total of three people. Another tip worth noting is that it’s always good to have a backup camera and to start setting up early. For some reason my Rebel XS decided it didn’t want to trigger my studio flashes. Luckily the 30D did, and I was able to shoot with that.

Flickr Slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbibb/sets/72157626340368366/show/

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March 16, 2011 · 7:49 am

#3 Advanced Color Portrait – Couples

Last weekend I asked Joe and Cherise if they were interested in being the couple for my assignment. Luckily it turned out that we had great weather on Saturday, and the lighting was perfect for what I wanted (long shadows, warm lights). We went out to the park on Holden and Lion’s Lake, starting around 4:30pm. I was particularly interested in the light I expected to come at around 5:10 pm, and it came as hoped.

I also brought along Isaac, my fiance, as photo-assistant, as well as a Canon 580ex Flash. (Which I had read the manual just before the shoot). I built a softbox out of white posterboard and wax paper (Isaac’s idea for the wax paper diffuser) and put that on the flash. While the flash worked, it was nice lighting. Unfortuanetly something caused the LCD to start flickering and it stopped firing, so I had to put it away after the first few poses. It was nice while it lasted. Over Spring Break I plan to learn more about how to use it.

Anyways, these are the resulting pictures, using Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2.

Flickr Slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbibb/sets/72157626280849202/show/