Week 6 - OCF - Ghetto Greenberg

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Was talking to my buddy Myron a while back about different lighting setups we wanted to try out and stuff.  One of the types of images we wanted to try out was a setup made popular by photographer Jill Greenberg.  She's done a portrait series on crying babies and another on animals.  A couple examples of her work are:

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But her studio setup can be pretty complicated.  I think there are at least 7 light sources going on.  So its much more complicated than my little strobes setup.  But I decided to do what I could with what I had.

So here's my Jill Greenberg inspired self portrait:

What do you think?  I was going to drip some water from my eyes and nose, but decided that would get too messy.

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OCF Week 5 - Half Moon Bay - Outtakes

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Just wanted to share a couple of outtakes from last week's OCF self portrait before posting up this week's image.  After taking last week's image, we took some more just to make the most of driving out to the coast:

I was actually debating between the image I posted last week and this one.  I still like this one tho...  Which do you like better?

And just some silliness:

Hot, hot, hot!

Need to drag the shutter a little more here to get more ambient.

Sun is YUMMY!

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OCF Week 5 - Half Moon Bay

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I think this is the 5th OCF self portrait I've taken...  I can't remember, it's been so long between portraits.  Anyways, two in a row - pretty awesome.

So this time around, it was raining pretty hard and I was starting to think about different shots to try indoors.  But the weather cleared out and there were some clouds in the sky so I thought I'd make the most of it by driving over to Half Moon Bay to try and catch the sunset and snap some pics.  After arriving did I realize the clouds were long gone.  But we found a beach and setup for some quick shots.  The sun was so bright that I initially started popping my flash at full power.  But as the sun went down, flash was turned down to 1/2 power and eventually to 1/4 power.  So here I am watching the sun get swallowed by the ocean.:

Strobist, one bare flash only(SB-24) camera right at 1/2 power.  I got some rim light from... well, from the sun.

Special thanks to Jason for holding my busted light stand

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