First exploration w/ multiflash street photography

Flash

Bounced flash backwards and left, 45 degrees.

Guest model portrait

Classic Portrait

Short lighting w/ 9:1 fill in ratio

Creative Portrait

I wanted to recreate the look of the old soviet propaganda portraits. I used a main 500 watts main light with no fill.

Extras

500 w light with no fill

500 watts main light with 5:1 fill in light

500 watts main light with 5:1 fill in light

Web Research - Catchlights and Short lighting

Intriguing catchlights

Photo by Buck Rogers

Photo by Matthew Dawkins


Short lighting

Eugene Smith - Guardia Civil, España, 1951

Light patterns

Here are my light patterns photos. I put so much attention to the light ratios that I completely forgot about the tilt in the heads. That makes my models look "stiff". Definitely one thing I will have to be more careful about the next time I make a classic portrait.

Broad lightingShort lighting

Butterfly

Flower

I decided to go with a classic approach







Extras

Fruit Project - Extended Version

I was happy when I saw that Martin didn't show the fruit project shots on Friday because that meant some extra time to work with some ideas I had in mind.

Exploring the idea of the original sin and the forbidden fruit (and doing some make-up tests for other photo projects)









Painting with light




And finally an extra "photojournalistic" approach