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13
Jun 10

Self-Portrait “Wallpaper”

So I came across this wallpaper in an old house and I just had to do a portrait in-front of it. My lovely girlfriend Kari helped me out with the shooting part. I loved the wallpaper but I also wanted you to really focus on me, so I shot it wide open at 2.8 causing the wallpaper behind me to be blurred. As for the lighting its all window light, how can you beat that!? A simple portrait + interesting background = cool photo. I’m now planning on getting a couple of different wallpapers like this for future photos because I liked it so much.

Tight crop on my eye. Got to love the 50mm 1.4

Trigger girl: Kari Larsen

Strobist: Window light

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 50mm ƒ/1.4 | ƒ/2.8 | 1/160th | ISO 200

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12
Mar 10

Self-Portrait Day 34|365 Black on Black

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: Background: SB600 with defuser. Main: SB800 with grid on face Hair: SB600 off to right hitting ceiling.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 50mm ƒ/1.4 | ƒ/3.5 | 1/320th

First things first.. no, I did not have a death in the family. Now thats out of the way this was one of those photos that really evolved from the original idea. It started out with me just standing there in normal clothes because I had no clue what I was really going for. All I knew was what my lighting set up was going to be. After I decided I looked lame with the clothes I was wearing I decided to Bond it up with a suit jacket. Lucky for me I had just the jacket for the shot, in real life it is way to small for me but for a shot like this it worked perfect and looked great! Then I decided to go with the challenge of shooting all black on black, so I grabbed my black shirt and tie. I also learned how to tie a great looking tie from You Tube so thank you You Tube. So now I looked like a stud in my suit I just had to come up with an interesting shot and the normal looking head on wasn’t doing it for me today. So I went with a looking down pose, and I’m glad I did because I love the shadows the grid cast on my face from my hair. Overall I think it turned out pretty good for being a black on black photo. What do you think?

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9
Mar 10

Self-Portrait Day 31|365 Getting Ready

The locker room, this is my fourth photo into my series of working on the mountain. Here is the place that I go every morning to suit up and get ready to head up on the mountain. I can’t think of any other place that is as hot or as smelly as this locker room. As you can see I started to sweat just taking this photo after being done with work for the day. It was a pretty interesting photo to light because of the space and the idea I had. But it came out great!

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: One SB600 above and to camera right with snoot. Another SB600 to camera left with grid aimed at boot. Last SB800 above to camera right aimed at snowboard.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 16mm ƒ/2.8 Fisheye | ƒ/7.1 | 1/160th | Triggered with Nikons CLS.

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8
Mar 10

Self-Portrait Day 27|365 My Studio

I’m super stoked I finally went out and bought a roll of seamless black paper. I have been wanting to do this for a long time and I’m glad I did. Instead of having the typical lightstands hold up my background I went to my local home depot and bought a couple of wall hooks for a closet pole. Then I also grabbed a ten foot dowel and mounted all that to my wall and it works fantastically.

So with this image I really wanted to show off my new background paper and my studio space. As you can see there isn’t much space the ceiling is only six and a half feet high. I believe the length and width is about 12′ x 12′ so it may look a little longer because I’m zoomed out to 18mm but don’t be fooled this is a very small room for a studio. It does a great job for head shots or half-length photos, anything past that the room becomes way to small to work in. But its still a little slice of photography heaven for me. As for the lights in this photo I not only wanted to light up the room for the photograph itself, but I also wanted to show off my lighting gear as well.

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: One SB600 acting as background light, but really lighting me. The other two flashes are just for show.

Camera info: Nikon D700 | 18-35mm ƒ/3.5-4.5 | ƒ/4.5 | 1/320th

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