Posts tagged lighting
Strobes
0July 11, 2010
by trevorcreative
in Photography
I recently started down the path to off-camera lighting. It takes a little reading and a decent amount of cash to get started, but once you do it’s fairly worthwhile. I bought my super-nifty flash and some accessories, but suddenly found myself without anything to shoot. Luckily a couple of friends came to my rescue. We headed to downtown Tampa and University of Tampa. Turns out you can wander around and go into rooms and nobody seems to mind.
Black Kat
0May 20, 2010
by trevorcreative
in Photography
I was recently digging through old shoots and stumbled on this one. I met this girl 1 time in a sort of friend of a friend of a friend scenario. This may have been one of the first shoots that really made me appreciate a solid black background. There’s something I find incredibly interesting about completely eliminating the surroundings even though you know it’s there. It doesn’t have the same feel as cutting out a person and painting the background black. Not sure I’m making a lot of sense, but all blathering aside I give you Black Kat.
Sometimes It’s The Post-Process
2April 3, 2010
by trevorcreative
in Photography
Being a photographer requires a few different skills to come up with quality images. You need to start with a good eye for composition and a general sense of setting. Having a good angle and good lighting are crucial first steps, but sometimes it’s just not enough.
Developing skills in editing your shots is what really brings out the shine. Sometimes, if the lighting wasn’t quite right, you have to rely on post-processing to salvage the shoot. My latest shoot suffered from unexpected weather and lighting problems, but in the end I really liked the outcome.
*Also as a side note, I try to avoid vignetting because it’s overdone. Some of these shots include natural vignetting caused by lighting, and some I added a little. You probably couldn’t easily guess which had some added because this is the perfect setting to use vignetting.
