shimey wrote:
JohnE, Asurephoto....everybody: MORE! MORE!
Can't rightly say how much I learn and am inspired by seeing your "before and afters..."
John E- Wanted to p.m. you after your "hearmuffs" post, but I'm so new to this board that I felt a little uncomfortable...
Great contributions to a great thread.
Hopefully Santa will be kind and I'll be posting some contributions of my own.
Until then, (if I may be so presumptuous...) let's see some more.

Thanks Shimey,

Thanks for the compliment. Ask questions anytime. I love helping out when I can.

John

Elle Dechene wrote:
John, thanks so much for sharing your shots, both the setups and the final results. I hope you and Cortney get around to doing a book/calendar of these, I think you'd find a bunch of buyers (I'd want my copy autographed, of course). I love the Vargas-style shots.
Elle

Thanks for the kind compliments Elle. The calendar idea has been mentioned a few times. I'll have to mention it to Kortney. Who knows, it might be fun the create a sample.

Kind regards,
John

Please tell me you didn`t catch the juice live !

Beautiful work.

Photo Op wrote:
Please tell me you didn`t catch the juice live !
Beautiful work.

Thank you!

But in answer to your query... yes AND no. Yes we did catch the squirt. I didn't know it at the time since you can't see it on the LCD viewer and I wasn't tethered since I was up to my chest in water.

When we finished with the model, my daughter squeezed about a dozen lemon slices and I captured the squirt.

When I went to process the original photo, I had found that we had captured the original squirt but it wasn't enough in our opinion, so... I added some of the squirt from another shot.

Kind regards,
John

Sorry, just posting a brief msg so I don't lose this thread, I'm not sure there is another way to do this. :)
Mark

Elle,

I think that whoever from B&H that you talked to had never entered a serious studio... I'd say that everybody that I know or seen shooting have always used umbrellas (either shoot through or bounce of (more common) to light a background, unless they wanted a gradation or something... Always umbrellas. I used shoot through umbrellas on the setup I posted here because I wanted a "wrap around" light, something like this, otherwise I'd use bounce umbrellas...

Daschund

BTW, yes, I'm thinking about having another meeting sometime... Just don't know when! :-)

Daschund

Daschund Woof wrote:
I used shoot through umbrellas on the setup I posted here because I wanted a "wrap around" light, something like this, otherwise I'd use bounce umbrellas...

Daschund

Wow. Now I want both kinds. Thanks!

Elle

JohnE, sorry to add to the bugging, but may I ask what lens you used on the first 3 "finished" shots?

1decmal8Tango wrote:
JohnE, sorry to add to the bugging, but may I ask what lens you used on the first 3 "finished" shots?

Canon's 24-70f2.8/L

I use this lens for most of my studio work.

Best Regards,
John

Thanks a lot.

MotoFoto wrote:
Sorry, just posting a brief msg so I don't lose this thread, I'm not sure there is another way to do this.
Mark

Same here.

Daschund Woof wrote:
BTW, yes, I'm thinking about having another meeting sometime... Just don't know when! :-)

Daschund

Woo-hoo!! Can I put my name on the list already??

Educational!

Daschund Woof wrote:

how tall are your ceilings in your studio? it looks like a great place to take photos!

About 10-12 feet...

Daschund

ok...here's mine

http://www.pbase.com/infocusinc

infocusinc wrote:
ok...here's mine

http://www.pbase.com/infocusinc

Nice space! One of these days....

By the way, (and please don't laugh) but what is a cyc wall?

Thanks, the the curve where the wall meets the floor. Its just like seamless except its built in and you can paint it.

infocusinc wrote:
ok...here's mine

http://www.pbase.com/infocusinc
That's disgusting... absolutely disgusting! :rofl: