Aisling in Cratloe

Quick upload of some reason photos taken with Aisling in Cratloe woods. We didn't have anything particular in mind. I was trying to explore ideas etc. Got a few that I really like so I thought I'd post then here. Hope you like them too.

For this shoot, I traveled light and limited myself to small flashes. It was shot quite late in the evening when light was fading anyways. So we were competing against time and had to constantly re balance the light when it got too dark. I did not want to black out the background. I didn't want to push the iso too high either to avoid noise. So there was a lot of tweaking in between the snaps. ( no assistant, no remote power control meant I had to do everything myself. ) I am grateful that Aisling was at least patient.

1.This one here is shot in natural light.

2 Lights used. Bounced umbrella camera left, snooted flash camera right.

3.Same cross lighting setup but the umbrella is now moved towards a more centre position. Snooted flash to camera left and a mini beauty dish just above and behind model with another flash, clamped onto a tree branch.

4.Light setting nearly similar to above, just further apart from the model.

Dream of flying

It's been a while since I've done any shoots just for fun. Been preoccupied with a lot of non photography related stuff. Anyways, happy new year everyone. Even though it's now March! It's been a good year so far. Last week happened to be the first time I got to relax a little and do some creative work.

I sent Tatyana a text, whom I knew wanted one last shoot before she heads off to Australia. She's trying to get into Med School over there so good luck Tatyana. She also found the location, did the styling and managed to get Sarah McCarthy on board as the MUA and her new hairdo was done by Claire Ambrose.

We didn't have much sun for the day. At least it stayed dry for most of the day. But we got plenty of wind and it was a chilly day. The wind meant it was difficult to set up lights with large modifiers on it. Like a large octabox for example. Even with Sarah holding the lights on a monopod, it was impossible not to get the lights blown away. So when we shot outside the hangar, I used a beauty dish and snooted flash instead. When inside the hangar, I wanted to accentuated shadow and highlight, again I used snooted and grids, eschewing any large light modifiers.

Anyways, check out the photos, hope you like them. Click on the images for a larger version.















-Sam