Posts Tagged: Self-Portrait

Gage / On Location / Photography / Portriats — No Comments
5
Jul 10

Thanksgiving Point Fireworks

So here in Utah we celebrated the 4th of July on the 3rd of July because the 4th fell on a Sunday. So we saw fireworks a day earlier then most everyone else. My girlfriend Kari and I decided to go the the free show at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. As you can see its pretty popular. Also as you can see by the photos I went there more to just hang out and enjoy the fireworks than to make photos. I figure the guy that lives on the 10th floor across from the Eiffel Tower has me beat hands down when it comes to amazing firework shots. So anyhow here are some photos I took while we were there waiting, watching and leaving.

Photo of Kari and me amongst the waves of people.

Not to shabby for a MySpace photo.

Cute shot of Kari in her extremely blindingly bright blanket.

Another shot of Kari. As you can see it was so cold she lost her hands to frost bite ;)

The firework shot of the day.

You guys have already seen this one in the previous post. Great shot for being taken the way it was.

I love this shot! Cranked my ISO to 4,000 and used the car light for my lighting.

Thanks for reading! GT

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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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26
May 10

Self-Portrait: On the Mountain

Trigger man: Myself

Strobist: Built in flash +1.0

Camera info: Nikon D80 | 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 | ƒ/10 | 1/200th.

On the top, here is my seventh photo in my series of work on the mountain. Here is a perfect look into how I spend most my overcast snowy days on top of the mountain. This day in particular was a super slow day as you can see by no one in the background. I thought this photo turned out pretty darn for being one of those hand held my space photos.

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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 33|365 The Lift

The Lift is my sixth photo in my series of work on the mountain. It can be by far colder than the Cabriolet when there is a good breeze going. How did me and my trigger man get this photo? Simple we were both just doing our job. I was riding up to my zone at the top of High Meadow and he was down the run shooting action photos. All I had to do was yell down at him to let him know I was coming. When it came to cropping the image I decided to go with a more artistic crop working with the shapes from the lift. I also love the fact that its snowy, it really shows that snow or shine were up there working on the mountain. As for my pose in the photo I decided to mimic what 90% of punks like myself do when riding up and see the camera man below.

Trigger man: Joesph

Strobist: Snowy overcast day.

Camera info: Nikon D80 | 70mm-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6 | ƒ/7.1 | 1/1600th | ISO 400.

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