I have been stressing lately that I don't have any proper photo equipment, or money to spend on said equipment. But who really needs thousands of dollars of lighting stuff when you have the Sun at your disposal. So I'm getting back to basics. I did buy a dove gray seamless for a background that I can continually re-use. But these photos were taken outside of my condo with the existing light, and a little bit of my on-camera flash (with a light shaping tool of my own creation) to fill in the shadows and smooth it out just a little.
I was very pleasantly surprised how well that turned out. It took a bit of thought and planning on where to set up my camera to best use the light I had. But it turned out great, especially in B/W. I do owe a bit of thanks and tribute to my spiritual photo mentor Richard Avedon for the lighting method.
I think I may want to do a series of portraits like this with super simple lighting in black and white for my web-site. So if anybody out there wants some photos, please let me know. I'll give you a good deal right now.
2 comments:
Great portraits! We need to go take pictures somewhere again soon. Maybe we can attempt the mountains again.
hey, these look really nice. the natural light looks really good. another idea would be a reflector -- its cheap and looks more natural, I think, if you have a second person there to hold it for you...i don't shoot a lot of portraits but I never use lights, if I can help it. anyway. i really like the photo...
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