Which resulted in a shot like this:
After a couple months, my co-worker Jen left for another job and my current co-worker Laura was hired. The first senior I shot, I shot like any other senior was shot, using the same dull front lighting. I started shooting my third senior and I just decided that I had enough with it and decided to do something different. So I unplugged one of the strobes and took the other one and placed it right next to my subject and placed a reflection panel on the other side:
Which resulted in this:
Judy, my boss, was extremely impressed when I showed her the following day. "It almost looks like a painting!" she exclaimed. I would have liked it more if I had used a hair light to separate her a little more from the background, but that the time I felt that we didn't really have a good hair light. I figured what we had would have been overpowering. I wanted something like what I had used at wcc, to decrease some of the intensity.
I shot a senior yesterday and I had a "what if" moment. I really wanted to use a hair light so I said to myself "what if I actually did use this light as a hair light?
The result was very pleasing to me:
Judy hasn't seen this one yet but I'm sure she's going to be very impressed when she does.
I knew I was easily capable of producing images far more appealing that what was originally being done and I'm pretty proud of myself for doing something about it. My mom says I've made a nice transition from shooting senior pictures to shooting senior portraits.
I almost got into an accident with a semi on my way home from best buy. I was going down 94 coming up to the guy getting ready to pass him and I don't know if he was drunk or fell asleep but he starts kind of moving all over the place, suddenly going into the left lane, back to the right, then going between lanes and such... it freaked me out a little bit.
This has been one of those night where I just wanna dance around like Gil Mantera...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaUs2rOmmcM
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