
I had the pleasure to photograph fencing enthusiast and high school teacher John K. We made arrangements to met at the school at 2 PM last Saturday. Normally it would have been full of sword fighting students, except that classes don't start for another week or so. John was kind enough to give me an hour of his time, he keep busy grading papers while I worked out lighting solutions.
I was able to get 3 images in the shot time I was there, the photo at the top of the post is probably my favorite. My son Chris came with me on the shoot, he shot some production stills which I'm including here.

There was an open garage door to the right of my shooting position, which provide the ambient fill in the room. Most of my exposures were at a shutter speed of 1/250, I liked the deep dark mood it created. The following sequence of images show how dragging your shutter and allowing more ambient light into the scene changes the entire mood of the shot.

In Lightroom, I added a green cast to the florescent light on the ceiling. I like the mix of the blue wall and a green cast of the florescent lights. I also removed the cord powering the score/timer on the wall.
I have a few spaces left for my September 26th Small Strobes, Big Results workshop in Denver. If you would like to learn more about how to achieve studio quality light on location, this workshop is for you. Give me a call or drop me an email if your interested.
In the next post, I'll discuss another image shot during this session, we'll be looking at building a shot using 4 SB-800's, as well as showing you some video. DT
3 comments:
Great Picture David, I like how it has a lot of mood and emotion, definitely looking forward to the videos, and picking up some good tips from you.
Just curious, which carrying case are you using to move your gear? It looks really useful.
Thanks for posting! you always manage to give us some inspiration.
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Love your work, this blog is great.
Reading your description of the process, I'm thinking, "I could do that". First thing the studio owner would say is, "You want to rent the studio for an hour, it's $xxx". So how much is reasonable $xxx?
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