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Let's see your OCF night/low light portraits

 
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Jul 26, 2016 00:25 |  #1

Let's see how this goes... I know a lot of you veterans here are wondering who the hell is this POTN noobie starting a thread  :p well... I searched "night portraits" and "long exposure portraits" but did not find much in return. If this topic has already been covered please point me in the right direction. If not please share some portraits of night portraits, long exposure portraits, or night cityscape portraits. I don't have much experience with it myself but l'd love to practice and I'm looking for inspiration. Here's one of my very few night portraits... It was shot in tungsten WB with 1/2 cut CTO gel through a basic shoot through umbrella.

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Jul 26, 2016 15:03 |  #2

Great thread and photo!
You should add to the tread OCF night/low light portraits and your setup!

Here's one from me

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Jul 26, 2016 19:29 |  #3

That's what I'm talking about mooshu! Nice shutter drag, thanks for sharing! Wish I had more examples to give this thread a little bit of momentum. Here's a portrait I took of my photog friend about 10 min after sunset; it's a stitched image lit with 1 white 22in BD.

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Jul 27, 2016 12:32 |  #4

another one here, This would be off camera huge white sign acting as a soft box camera right
Sigma 85 1.4 here

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Jul 27, 2016 13:10 |  #5

Interesting thread. Many of my portraits are in low light, sometimes near-total darkness. An edgy, gritty, dramatic lighting and processing style is exactly the kind of aesthetic I usually prefer. The vast majority of the subjects I shoot in this style are performers, costumers, or cosplayers. I can do "light" portraits too, but those are much less interesting to me.

Let's see what I have handy in the ol' flickr ... many of these, I've already posted in other threads.

Here's one from a couple of months ago, my friend Candy Muldune dressed as Psylocke. This is a half-second exposure. The flash is actually at the beginning of the exposure, but for saber-trails photos, it doesn't matter if you use first- or second-curtain shutter, because the saber-trail will look cool anyway. Main light is an Elinchrom D-Lite in the Maxi-Lite reflector dish.

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From last Halloween, local celebrity and performer Vita DeVoid as a ghost of Ybor City. Light is a single bare YN-560II speedlight on a boom out over the street. It was way too windy for any modifier.

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http://www.avidchick.c​om (external link) for business stuff
http://www.facebook.co​m/VictorVoyeur (external link) for fun stuff

  
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Jul 31, 2016 13:11 |  #6

Got to practice a bit with low light portraits last night. The majority were throw aways (motion blur). Well... some take aways for me were to use the damn tripod and not try and hand hold anything. I also played the "drag the shutter game" I should've bumped my ISO but I wasn't thinking at the time and had my camera in ISO 100, f2.8, 1/20sec!!! on a 180mm prime without image stabilization.:cry: Oh well, lessons learned...

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