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Automotive Photography and Education

14 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by Rick A. Brown in Shooting

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automobile, kelby, Oregon, photo, photograph, photography, Photoshop, WAAAM, Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum

USA, Oregon, Hood River, Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum,  a 1929 Packard Model 640 Super 8 Phaeton. (Rick A. Brown)

My current photographic obsessions are vehicles and people. My vehicles of choice have mostly been airplanes, but I am just as passionate about photographing automobiles. Furthermore, I suspect there are actually a few more opportunities for paying work with automobiles (although this is hard to gauge from my current vantage point.) I knew to really push into this realm I needed to do two things; learn a few more things about automotive photography and flesh out my automotive portfolio a bit more.

So, for step one I had run across Tim Wallace’s classes on Kelby One and took most of them. Tim is a fabulous teacher teaching one ways to get that luxurious car look in a photo, while still emphasizing the fact that there is a lot of room for the photographer to do it his way. There is no one right way to photograph a car. While practicing the Tim Wallace methods, I learned the most difficult part of the technique is perfect positioning of the lights, especially if the ambient conditions are too bright for you to see the modeling lamps. I still haven’t got this down perfect, but I believe I’m close enough to produce some good work.

On the second point, I decided to move ahead with my dad’s Jeep Patriot rather than waiting for the opportunity to work with a vintage or sports car. This way I can flesh out my portfolio sooner, and while my dad’s car isn’t a 68 Dodge Charger, it still has a beautiful paint job and very iconic, branded details.

Look for my new automotive work at www.rabimaging.com around the end of May. Or, take a look at my current “Surface Vehicles” portfolio.

The photo at the top of this entry is my favorite automotive photo prior to the latest shoot.

Improvement?

04 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by Rick A. Brown in Shooting, Uncategorized

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kelby, photography, portrait, training

A short blog post today as I’m essentially just posing a question to you. That is have I improved with the Kelby Training materials I’ve utilized? Would these materials benefit you?

Here is a gallery of portraits I did after one Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It online class.

And here’s a gallery after I did all of the online Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It classes, the book, and the live seminar. I also read Photoshop Compositing Secrets and Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographer using Photoshop.

What do you think, valuable training?

Elinchrom Scott Kelby’s Light It. Shoot It. Retouch It. LIVE Tour Kit

10 Saturday Mar 2012

Posted by Rick A. Brown in Shooting

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B&H, elinchrom, kelby, light, studio

I recently received this awesome lighting kit, available exclusively from B&H.  It is inspired by the gear used on Scott Kelby’s Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It tour; a fabulous learning experience. Thus far, I think it works very well.

I made a couple of unboxing videos of the kit. You’ll notice in the shooting part that I’m not in a nice spacious studio, but in a home that looks a little crowded and messy due to the lighting equipment in place. This is due to the fact that I intend for my business to be an on-location sort of thing. I will shoot portraits in homes and place of business and will rent studio space when that is a better option for some compelling reason.

I made two versions of the video because there is so much stuff in the kit. There’s the full length video of the unboxing then a shorter version with just me shooting with it.

First the full length.

Then the shortened.

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