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Above:Shot with Nikon D3 and 105mm 2.8 VR
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f/9
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Above:Shot with Nikon D3 and 105mm 2.8 VR
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f/8
ISO 200

The one I used for my Flyer:

Above: Shot with Nikon D3 and 105mm 2.8 VR
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f/8
ISO 200

Above:Shot with Nikon D3 and 50mm 1.4
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ISO 200

Above:Shot with Nikon D3 and 17-35mm 2.8 @ 35mm
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Also here are a couple of setup shots: Check out my Flickr for more.

So my idea once I got there was to get him in the booth. Theres no point to be at the studio and take pics up against a wall and they didnt have any giant mixers to sit him in front of to make it seem as her was the producer/engineer. He’s Young Chris. The Rapper. Get it?
So the studio has the basic foam padding to absorb any unwanted noise made in the studio. But its this nasty yellow like the padding from the cushion of your passenger seat.

Thats not saying anything close to “Chris-mas” I need some reds or greens. Lucky for me I brought along my colored gels. So I put 1 SB800 behing the microphone stand to illuminate the room. Yay I got Red!! Now i need to light Chris because I dont wast him red also. There was a little pedestal next to him that I was able to place a SB800 on without a gel. So now I have it. Perfect Mix for the Mix Tape. It took a couple test shots to get the lights right since I left my light meter at home. I also had problems focusing because I was shooting thru glass and the recording booth was completely dark.
Here it is without the red gel:

And with:

Nikon D80 with 50mm 1.4
1/125
f/6.3
50 mm

Much better
Last minute he asked me to add some quick text to see if he can get it to the company to press the mixtape covers up. In 1 hour this is what I came up with:


Not my best work but I only had an hour. Turns out they had submitted one for him already (it was soooo wack)

The goal was:
Light the subject with 1 light without lighting the background.

Here was my setup and Final result:


Nikon D80 w/ 50mm f1.4
1/200
f/10
ISO 100

Final Shot is unedited except for sizing and taggind for web.

I’m not sure what my settings on my flash was but it was pretty low. I learned a lot from my little exercise. Sometimes when there aren’t any test models available it doesn’t hurt to have a couple toys laying around. The light falls the same on toys as it does people, just in smaller proportion.

So on Mother’s Day All the fam came to the house and got all spiffy so we could make some custom cards. Why spend all that money at Hallmark with all those random poems and sayings that come close to what you really want to say but not quite. Once a year you might just find the right card that makes a family member drop a tear because its so true, but thats like winning the lottery. So being one of those people that dislikes card shopping, I figured that mom would like a card made from scratch. Whats so different from the days of construction paper, safety scissors, elmers glue and colorful pipe cleaners? Same thing to me. I just have a bigger canvas now.

Enough blah blah here are the pics in order from youngest to oldest.

Jordan ( hurry up and get this over with so I can play rockband )

Keyon

Brianna (she really think she modelin !!!)

Mia

Gabrielle ( if you just graduated college this week you’d look like this too)

Janine

Sorry I Didn’t make the cut this time. Maybe next post. Thanks to the fam for being patient and energetic, I had fun with these pics.

At the end of the day it made a tear drop and thats all that matters.

I used the AlienBees ABR800 ringflash above triggered by pocketwizards and a SB800 on the ground with a shoot thru umbrella.

Heres a couple keepers from the shoot. Check out some more photos on my Flicker Gallery HERE.
Also check out some more of Ciji on her Myspace page.

50mm
f/8
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ISO 200

105mm
f/10
1/200
ISO 200