STICKY:  How to photograph a high school Senior

Thank you! Thats what I love about this forum.

One from Last Night

Hard one to light. Was windy and could not get an umbrella up. I wanted to get the shadow from the sun out of the scene from behind the car but there was no way that parabolic was going to stay up, even with someone holding it:o

Large soft box with AB 1600 aimed at front side of emily
4 stop nd filter to drop ambient
Adjusted iso to get a look i was OK with
F/7.1 at 1/125 iso at 250 with ND filter attached

Wanted to kill the ambient and do the iso bump so it was like chasing light at sunset time. Worked out pretty good. Ive all but stopped trying to figure out the math on these ND filters. Using the viewfinder and playing with the settings. It did not work w/o ND filters for this shot. Very bright and direct sunset lighting at 600PM

One from this morning. Was a little cool in Minnesota this morning. we had frost on the ground

You find the coolest places around here...

umphotography wrote in post #13191554
One from Last Night

Hard one to light. Was windy and could not get an umbrella up. I wanted to get the shadow from the sun out of the scene from behind the car but there was no way that parabolic was going to stay up, even with someone holding it:o

Large soft box with AB 1600 aimed at front side of emily
4 stop nd filter to drop ambient
Adjusted iso to get a look i was OK with
F/7.1 at 1/125 iso at 250 with ND filter attached

Wanted to kill the ambient and do the iso bump so it was like chasing light at sunset time. Worked out pretty good. Ive all but stopped trying to figure out the math on these ND filters. Using the viewfinder and playing with the settings. It did not work w/o ND filters for this shot. Very bright and direct sunset lighting at 600PM

wow. very nice. Was she sitting on her legs?

Very cool prop Mike. And nice dresss she got.

Jen

She had a pair of jeans on underneath. She was kneeling and leaned back.

Here is the other outfit she had on. Playing with these affects and trying to get a cool look

@Mike, Wow! Love the photos with the truck! Great job!

Bill

Mike the last one with the truck is one of my favorites you have posted.

umphotography wrote in post #13195031
Here is the other outfit she had on. Playing with these affects and trying to get a cool look

Love the colors here, is that Topaz Adjust?

^^^^^^

Topaz is in the work flow. Two adjustments at different opacitys and several steps in photoshop to get the look, but, i like how the last one came out. We have about 10 more that are just really good expressions from her so I will post a couple more. Really wish it had not been so windy, the parabolic would have really nailed the lighting out there-- next time

umphotography wrote in post #13194164
Jen

She had a pair of jeans on underneath. She was kneeling and leaned back.

umphotography wrote in post #13195031
Here is the other outfit she had on. Playing with these affects and trying to get a cool look

thanks Mike. Would you pretty Please give us a set up shot next time you shoot?

Here are some from my 2nd Senior shoot. I have learned a lot from you guys and hopefully my work is improving. I lucked into an awesome location, a deserted rail car building. The new owner happened to be there when I was looking for permission to shoot in the area.

All shots at the building were with a 580ex II into a 46" softlighter II, and 70-200 II. Sorry about the number of pics, I don't get to post very often.

Kelsey

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And a couple more...

These two were at the beach and I did not have my ND Filter, so the flash was on camera with HSS

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