High Contrast Strobist

Hi Everyone!

I was sitting here in my dorm room bored out of my mind and thought no better time to photograph something! I didn't know what to shoot so I looked around my room, I had the D700 signed out at the time so I decided to photograph my D90! But I wanted to do it a different way instead of just natural lighting or a single light.

I grabbed my friends SB-600 so that I could have two at my disposal, one of mine and the other hers. From there I attached cheap receivers to the flashes and a transmitter to the D700! (See Below)



From there I put my camera on the bed and thought of a good position for the lights. I set them down and adjusted the power outage for both strobes. The one on the right had a higher power, i believe it was set to 1/16 while the other on the left was set to 1/32 for some fill.



After that I just started to play around with angles and such, here are some shots! It was really cool to do and super easy! Also, adjust the white balance to different degrees to get some cool colour effects... And yes when I put "cool" I meant awesome! :P





For the image below I put a strobe right behind the D90 giving some cool flare and burst!

Stock Assignment!

The last assignment me and my class had gotten in our Stock Photography class was to shoot a portfolio of Pizza and Beer. We were to hand in only five salable photographs that were perfect examples of stock photography.

First I will explain what Stock photography is. The word stock means things on the shelf, not the stock of broccoli! A stock company will house billions of photographs taken in from photographers across the globe. These photographs now go on display for anyone to buy the LICENSING RIGHTS. Meaning they pay a certain amount of money for a specific use of the image.

So basically in the case of pizza and beer. If I was a advertising company and needed a photograph of college kids fighting for a pizza then I would search it on a stock companies website and find the perfect match. Then buy the rights and bam you have your image without hiring a photographer.

Me and two other students got together on a Friday night and ordered a large pepperoni pizza from Dominos. The first thing to do before shooting a stock assignment is to do some research, we went onto multiple stock site such as Getty Images and Corbis. We brainstormed ideas and heres what we came up with.











As you can see stock is not my forte!

Some recent work!

So I haven't posted much in a while so I'm gonna throw some recent photos up so you can all have a look at what I've been up to lately!

Sorry!

I know I am terrible!



I haven't been blogging in a while, so therefor I apologize, I have to get back on top of my game! Been very busy with school assignments and prepping for exams!

I'm going to try and get back on here tonight and post some of my newest work, and possibly one or two How to's!


K exam time that you everyone!