tyler hayward has added a photo to the pool:
Lack of photos lately...busy with school blah blah blah >.>
Setup shot in comments!
However, am finally on reading week, so I have time to catch up on posting some photos I've taken and I had a chance to drop off slide film from my leica and hassy, so hopefully there'll be some decent ones to scan a few weeks from now...why can't I live in Japan where slide film takes only a few days and is not sent off to another lab...
Speaking of which, I was hanging around downtown Toronto, bought some cheap shirts at Topshop and then met up with Eric at Henry's where we were able to try out a Wimberley head (since Eric's in the market for one) and Mike who was helping us out even pulled the Canon 400mm 2.8 L IS so we could test it out! We found out Mike also grew up in Hamilton where we attend university hahaha.
Arguably the highlight of my day however, was when I spied a dude in a green canada goose parka walking around the store and I caught a glimpse of some of his tattoos and thought to myself he looked familiar...I stared for a while and he looked over and continue to walk over to the lighting section and then it clicked and I was like...that can't be...Deadmau5?? So I ask Mike to confirm and he nodded and says he comes in from time to time....looks like he was purchasing some hot lights and apparently he's a Canon shooter and owns most of the ef lineup. I had my leica on me and Eric forgot to pop a cf in his camera when he drove into Toronto so I asked Mike if he'd be able to take a pic of me with Deadmau5 and he was down, so after I saw him finish his purchase, I walked over and asked if it'd be alright, we talked about film for a second, he says his friends have told him to start shooting it and I told him about his new track I just heard the other day and Mike was able to snap 2 quick frames which will hopefully turnout somewhat alright because I was kinda freaking out a bit hahaha
So this shot is from a string of photoshoots I've been working on over the past few weeks for the upcoming release of Sex and the Steel City (SATSC) which is the paper's special annual magazine issue where we get to do some risqué photography with a small budget for some high profile equipment :D It's currently all finished and off to print!
I opted for renting an obscene amount of lighting equipment from headshots in Toronto (thanks Eric for the road trip and trunk space in a durango) which included 4 profoto acute strobes, a d4 power pack, chimera strip boxes, octaboxes a beautiful mola demi beauty dish which we've now purchased and should arrive shortly :D:D:D
It was a fun and hectic experience trying to organize many photoshoots with locations, times, models, gear and trying to coordinate everything to happen at the right place and time. I never realized all the ridiculous amounts of planning that had to be put in when I was just a volunteer the past few years, but now most of the responsibility was left to me and it had to get done.
Big thanks to the models and everyone who helped out with the shooting, especially Jon and Bahram for putting in many hours and helping with all the shots!
So this is David who's been featured in threadcount previously and I thought he'd be a perfect candidate for some experiments with rim lighting/stripboxes and I've been trying to get better with strobes with the guidance of Bahram, who's a lighting master.
This is definitely not a technically perfect picture, there is no fill at all and there are heavy shadows on the face, but I love the soft light of the stripboxes and the hard rim lighting it can provide as well. Just playing around and the setup can be seen down in the comments.
Here are the settings for those of you who have managed to get through all my dribble drabble! :D
Again…need to finish a blog so I have a place to post all of this so that people who actually want to read can do so and not get in the way of the photo…need more reading week time
*about the power settings on the flash heads...on the last day we had the equipment we realized we could change the power settings to f-stops...but the entire weekend we were using the silly wattage numbers from 19-999 hahahahahaha lots of chimping was done...
Strobist
Canon 5d mk II
Canon 85mm f/1.2 L II
2x Profoto Acute in large chimera stripboxes
Profoto D4 for power
Pocket Wizard Plus II's for sync (I am going to buy the + 3's for sureeeee)
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