These are very uninteresting images, I am afraid. I can't image that in a firehouse, with all the props at hand, that this is your best juxtaposition of subject and environment. Your light ratios between subject and background, coupled with a clinical aperture of f22, are deeply flat. Please reshoot, and show us who this man is, what he does, and why he is the way is is. Perhaps these were simply a test of your new beauty dish rather than a portrait series. If so, lighting ratios are still important, in my opinion.
John Caldwell wrote:
These are very uninteresting images, I am afraid. I can't image that in a firehouse, with all the props at hand, that this is your best juxtaposition of subject and environment. Your light ratios between subject and background, coupled with a clinical aperture of f22, are deeply flat. Please reshoot, and show us who this man is, what he does, and why he is the way is is. Perhaps these were simply a test of your new beauty dish rather than a portrait series. If so, lighting ratios are still important, in my opinion.
John Caldwell
I kinda agree with some of these comments ( I was once a volunteer firefighter very long time ago)
Maybe use some of the equipment - nozzles, hose, "jaws of life", etc. in the pics
and why shoot at f22 ?
Love the pose and BG
I favor Pic 2 but think both are great
As a township suprvisor, my admiration to our firemen is top notch!
Great job and thanks for sharing!
Thanks for all the advice on these photos guys. My main goal going in to this was to play around with the BD and the Einstein together outside and see if they could over power the sun or if I could balance the light with the sun, which you can tell the suns location by the shadow of the light pole in the first photo.
My original composition was the second photo, but he wanted to have the depts name in the background. I could have and should have moved him so he blocked the door and I should have closed the garage door, but it wasnt that big a deal for playing around.
The reason this was shot at f22 was because I started with my flash sync speed of 1/250 and that is what I metered in camera. Next time Ill have to take more time and actually bust out my hand held meter and do things right. This whole shoot only took 5 min.
