I love clean shots. It might not show so much in my current body of work. But I love the timeless feel and simplicity of a seamless background. I really want a studio. Or, I really want a space that I can have 6x6m of open plain wall. There is soooo much you can do with that. It'll come eventually I guess. But for right now I just have to hustle and make things work for me the way that they are. Which is kind of interesting and challenging because I get to learn and problem solve one side, but really frustrating on the the other side.
I met a guy working at a new bar that opened in town about a week ago. And like always, if I see someone interesting or cool looking, I dont really hesitate to ask them if I can take pictures of them. So we started chatting and a couple days later I had him infront of my camera in my "studio" AKA Elisabeth's bedroom.
This presents challenges when using strobes. First of all space. Lightstands with umbrellas or softboxes take up space! Especially when there are two of them. Secondly, when trying to over-expose a wall in the background, or when the wall that is the background, flare from the light bouncing around the room becomes very apparent very quickly, this is only magnified by the size of the room and the colour of the walls. White walls in a small room = more light to balance out than I care to think about. I think I managed to suss out a good balance with key light + fill light + background light + ambient. This is part of the learning, getting it wrong and figuring out how to get it right quickly.
So here are some of the shots that I chose, Thanks a lot to my man Ardito, for chilling and being so easy to shoot, and to my lady Liz for letting me use her bedroom to shoot in. Hopefully no-one can tell the difference? Sweet. N
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| Love this shot. Cropped to 1x1 on purpose. |
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| Clean, sharp. |
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| B+W, couldn't decide between this and..... |
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| .....the colour alternative. |
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| Bit more pensive and tense. |
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