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Gangster Movie Lighting




Image by Brantford Selections

About a week ago I picked up a pair of strobes; a 580EX II and a 430EX II. Then I met a shooting buddy who wanted to learn what being a stobist was all about. I figured we could learn together so he popped over to test out the lights.

This is hard to do. I didn't want to use my mono lights (which provide a good pair of modelling lights to work with), so we had to shoot and chimp and shoot and chimp until we got the hot-shoe lights exactly how we wanted them.

Since I was using hot-shoe lights I wanted to try B&W and have a go at nailing down the old gangster movie style of lighting.

This one was converted to B&W with a blue filter and just a touch of sharpening.

I can see what the attraction is to B&W shooting and I think I now have the bug.

I'm pretty much new to doing any kind of portrait work and brand new at being a stobist so any regular people shooters out there please feel free to giving me a critique and send me any tips to get me going.

1 strobe camera right front up high 1:1 and 1 strobe over shoulder camera left 1:1

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Here's a link to my shooting buddy's photostream on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/zoomie2008/

I think he does great work and needs to post more of it for all to see.

he took her to a movie




Image by when i was a bird

and when her heart was sad, he took her to a movie
she's all he's ever had, he took her to a movie
and should their love turn bad, he took her to a movie

TRANSFORMERS the movie Desktop




Image by TerryJohnston

FYI: on 7.4.7 I will be at the movies. I CAN'T WAIT!!!