OCF Week 7 - How YOU doin'???

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So this week is a little different in that I did not use any strobes as light sources.  I've always wanted to shoot by candle light so this week I thought I'd give it a shot.

A couple lessons learned off the top of my head.  It's super hard to shoot wide open at F/1.4.  This is one of maybe 3 or 4 images that were in focus.  But since there wasn't much light and I didn't want to use too high of an ISO.  Also, you can see the candles I used as a light source, but there were a couple other LED lights I used.  Different temperature lights actually made it tough to figure out what WB to use.  I wanted to see what would happen, and you can see the blue-ish light on my head and left shoulder.  I'm thinking about picking up some CTO gels to compensate for the WB differences.

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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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