It has been a hot minute yet again since I’ve made a post. Usually during the school year it is a tough thing to schedule a creative, photo session. However when summer time hits, for me it’s time to satisfy that itch to create work for me and do what I want. That’s what this what I decided to dive into headfirst with Jerusha.
I had a shoot with one of my “muses” that I usually have on speed dial for creating some work for fun. I told Jerusha I had no real direction, however I wanted to use continuous lighting as the main component. It sort of has become a trend to use continuous lighting and playing with RGB lighting. Which to be honest, it was VERY refreshing because strobe work in the studio can get quite stale and doesn’t have the intrigue it used to have for me. During this shoot we used Neewer RGB lights, one with just a reflector and a sock for a diffuser, while the other light I was using a snoot to highlight the background. The idea was for a spotlight-ish effect, while using the diffused light to contrast with an opposing color or of a slightly lighter tint. And just in case you’re wondering, I used my Neewer 1/4 diffusion filter, so that’s why you notice a slight glow in the highlights. Musically I have been listening to a lot of 80’s synth wave type of music and I thought the lighting, music paired together nicely.
It was fun to do this, I would absolutely love to continue playing around with this type of lighting. However my only pet-peeve I had during the entire shoot was wanting more power from these lights without having the really push my cameras ISO. I still really enjoyed this shoot and I was stoked Jerusha had the time and patience to run through this test shoot.
Studio With Jerusha
It’s been a quite a bit of time since I have been in the studio. So I kicked off 2023 working with Jerusha in the studio and we agreed on two amazing colors for the background! I’ve wanted to work with this red-ish backdrop color for quite some and it did NOT disappoint. Jerusha and I had no real plan for this shoot, just sort of a hang out and get some shots to be creative. Last year I kicked off shooting with J too, so maybe this will just be an annual thing for us ha!
While all the digital shots came out great, I shot 2 rolls of Kodak Pro Image 100. I was stoked to get those developed and the worst part was….. the camera I was gifted by a great uncle had the incorrect shutter speed so I had just clear strips of film.. RIP the film and the 20 bucks for developing.
