Six new players were switched in the arrangement, and the process was repeated for the right section. The boom was then moved to expose five to ten captures for players 3 and 4, and again for players 5 and 6 to complete the left section. Starting with six athletes arranged for the left section, the 7-foot umbrella was placed over players 1 and 2 for five to ten captures. Using a 7-foot Westcott Parabolic Silver Umbrella with a white diffusion cover on an overhead boom, I painted with light to optimally light each grouping, two athletes at a time. It’s not as nice as Duvetyne, but the sheeting is light, opaque and inexpensive. The windows at the gym were masked out with black plastic sheeting from Home Depot to remove the strong incoming sunlight. We chose to arrange all 12 people symmetrically into two separate groups at our CrossFit gym location in San Francisco. Samurai Sportswear wanted a signature group image with an athletic look and stylized treatment for their U.S. Lighting: Westcott 48-inch Rapid Box Octa XXL No reflector is needed, but a two-stop neutral density filter was placed on the lens to cut back on the ambient light and to keep a relatively shallow depth-of-field at f/4.Ĭuriously, there was so much haze in the atmosphere from nearby forest fires that day that I could never recreate these colors again. The light is very soft and it’s giving the shadow side softer edges. Set 10 feet overhead, the light is directional enough to have fall-off and contrast, but it’s really feathered. It’s the only thing I used for this 45º/45º setup of rock climber Jacob Forrer after his bouldering session at The Buttermilks in Bishop, California. It’s the Kristaps Porziņģis (a New York Knicks basketball player who’s over 7 feet tall) of lighting-that is, it’s big enough for shooting a single person full length and stunning when brought in close for a waist-up portrait. The goal for this shoot was to build a library of marketing images for the client, so even though we were shooting over several days, we still had to keep things moving quickly with simple lighting setups.Ī mid-large Octa box is super versatile. ![]() “Do what you want, work with creative people doing interesting things, and get a front-end alignment after shooting epic locations” was basically the art direction for this assignment from G-Project Gear, the makers of ruggedized Bluetooth wireless speakers. ![]() This is the starting point for almost everything I shoot. I remember a few things from my high school photography instructor, and although he said I had the worst case of senioritis he had ever seen in 25 years, he showed me a lighting setup he called “45º/45º.” It’s a classic Rembrandt style that places the light roughly at a 45-degree angle between the camera and subject, then aims it down 45 degrees from a height above the subject’s head.
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