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Getting the Most out of a Shoot

06 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by Rick A. Brown in Shooting

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bridge, lifestyle, Lightroom, Oregon, paddling, photo, photograph, photography, portrait, St. John's

The earlier shoot with a model and some planes at WAAAM, was a resounding success in all but one criteria. Thank you, Sami Van Der Westhuizen, Carrie Strahle, Ken Olsson, and WAAAM. That one criteria was the number of unique images brought home from the shoot. This was a result of the weather interfering with some of our planned shots, being late in arriving on location, and the lack of coming up with ideas myself. This blog post, I intend to tell you how I tried to improve on this last issue on a subsequent shoot.

Step one, and the best way to do it, is to plan many different looks while you are planning the logistics of the shoot. If you look at the gallery of the entire shoot, all of the images you don’t see in the slide show at the beginning of this article, were part of the plan from the beginning. This is the best way to plan multiple looks as you have time to consider them carefully, and not have your crew sit around bored while you think up stuff.

The other method is to be very observant while on location and use the surroundings and behavior of your model as inspiration for new ideas. The best example of that in this particular scenario is the images you see of Alex relaxing in her kayak. We took a break for me to think of new ideas and while I was thinking she used her kayak as a place to take a load off and relax. I thought it looked like a great shot, so stopped the break and started shooting.

Overall, I was ecstatic how this worked, the only thing I felt bad about was that some of the times I took a moment to think up some shots, I think I bored the crew a bit. The results are great though.

Take a look at the complete gallery of paddler at St. John’s Bridge, or my portrait portfolio.

Cooking Lifestyle Photos

21 Wednesday Aug 2013

Posted by Rick A. Brown in Shooting

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chef, cook, food, lifestyle, Oregon, photo, photograph, photography, portrait

On some level, lifestyle photos have always been a part of what I do. However, when it recently became obvious to me that these style photos were a huge part of the local advertising scene, I became aware that most of the images I had up to this point were unsuitable for a portfolio. This was either due to them being originally shot for an editorial purpose or the same face in too many photos, and other similar issues. Thus I decided to shoot some personal projects to flesh out a portfolio and these images would serve the dual purpose of being useful as stock.

I like good food, a fact that I wish was less visually obvious. I like to cook sometimes although, am very sensitive to it becoming routine. That not liking it to become something I’m doing all the time explains why I haven’t seriously considered doing it professionally. I was aware that a good friend liked to cook much more than I do. Recently she attended a week long workshop at the American Culinary Institute. I felt this made for a great opportunity to add to building a lifestyle portfolio.

So I made arrangements, with my friend to shoot her cooking dinner and then we all ate together. We combined this with a headshot shoot she wanted to update her social media profile photos. I brought most of my studio gear, but ended up doing most of the cooking photos with a speedlight in a Lastolite softbox. I shot a series of test shots first with no flash to manually set the exposure where I wanted. The idea was to light the scene moderately well with the ambient light from the window and overheads and then add the flash to light our chef. Once the exposure was set for the ambient I added my speedlight on manual and balanced its power to where I wanted. The ironic thing is my last test shot ended up being my favorite photo from the shoot.

USA, Oregon, Eugene, young woman in her kitchen. MR (Rick A. Brown/© 2013 Rick A. Brown)

My lifestyle portfolio isn’t ready yet, why don’t you take a look at my people.

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