SOCCER-2

Camera: Canon 7D

Lens: Canon 70-200 f/2.8 & 24-105 f/4

Local semi-pro soccer team

Soccer action pictures from first game of 2018

SOCCER

Camera: Canon 7D

Lens: Canon 70-200 f/2.8 & 24-105 f/4

Local semi-pro soccer team

Soccer team and action pictures from 2016

Move the Mall

I do volunteer photography for the local senior center and they recently asked me to set up a photo station at one of their events. I used a Godox AD600 strobe and a 40-inch beauty dish soft box. For the backdrop I used a multicolored foil curtain (https://www.shindigz.com/mardi-gras-foil-curtains/p/CTNPRE-PGG?gclid=CjwKCAjw7tfVBRB0EiwAiSYGM9lOCQUKgLKF6Mg1M22Ql36Knq2F-5OiXIwUM6c7MVDyAPz0or3SmhoCD6wQAvD_BwE . They provided props for the participants to use in the photos. It was quite a learning experience. I had problems with my light reflecting off of storefront windows, bright overhead lights and people who just walked right through my set up. I ended up moving everything into a back corner and lining up some chairs to keep people from walking right in from my camera. I think the photos turned out not great but probably okay. There are a number of things I would do different if I ever do this again, like I said it was a great learning experience.

SKIN

I’ve been watching a lot of skin smoothing videos on the web lately and this is the best one that I found. It's called Frequency Separation. It’s quick and easy after you do it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRndGkBegGg

Double Soft-box

I saw an Adorama video last week about using two soft-boxes on one light stand for doing actor head shots. So, I manually had to try and build my own. I started with a heavy duty 9-foot light stand and used some clamps, umbrella adaptor's and half inch hard copper tubing. I put a 24” soft-box on the top and a 20” soft-box on the bottom. Each soft-box was equipped with a Godox V860-II speed light.

I did some sample shoots with my practice mannequin. I will try to do more test shots next week with a real model.

MagMod Portrait

A friend of mine just last week picked up some MagMod gear. She wants to use it to do some corporate portraits next week and ask me if I would put together a lighting diagram for her. I have some MagMod gear but use it mostly for event photography. In my opinion MagMod modifiers produce light that is too hard for a corporate portrait. But, here is what I came up with. I used a MagSphere on a Godox V860-II speedlite as the main light, a 20” by 30” piece of white foam core as fill light and a MagGrid on another Godox V860-II speedlite on the background. the model is my lovely wife.

Product Photography

It has been very cold here in Minnesota lately, down around -15 on most days. I picked up a light tent so I could do some product photography indoors where it’s warm. The following photos are my first attempt. Not good, but something to work on during the cold weather.

These are some of my granddaughter’s figurine’s. 

I was not completely happy with the light tent so I am going to build a shooting table. I will post more photos soon.