PYeung is moving out of her home of 10+ years. Exciting times! They put a lot of time and effort to make it into a beautiful home. I took some time to document some of her designs for her portfolio. This display cabinet was home to her Coca Cola collection. I used 3 SB-800′s and [...]
Opened up the thunder gray for Benjamin’s shoot. Lovely neutral colour but more difficult to use than I expected! Using the white seamless for a high key look is easy, it’s fail safe. It’s a simple, elegant set up and hard to screw up; Two lights nuking the backdrop, light the subject properly and voilà [...]
Clamshell lighting is a technique used by many fashion photographers to create a very flattering look with a 1:1 lighting ratio. It’s almost a fail safe technique next to the ‘umbrella-camera-top-right-@-45-degrees.’ It makes the average person look good and make good looking people even better. Pairing this with a telephoto lens just makes everything come [...]
This was an on location shoot because I need to experience setting up the backdrop system and lights at the client’s place. This was a challenge since the area I require is quite large. Using a 6ft arctic white backdrop and a good amount to cover the floor, my porta-studio requires about a 8ft x [...]
Got a new backdrop. Not just regular gray. THUNDER GRAY. THUNDER F-ing GRAY!!! The first time I was introduced to a studio setting at the Toronto Strobist Group, the guys used a thunder gray backdrop. The versatility of this colour gives you many options to the look you’re going for and I can’t wait to [...]
Just got a few rolls of backdrop today to complete my recently bought backdrop system. I got the backdrops used at $40 for 2 rolls of 6′ wide and 2 rolls of 4′ wide. They’re still in decent shape and after only cutting off about the first couple feet, it was pretty fresh. Was going [...]
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