genoph wrote:
Amazing set. Just phenomenal creativity with this. Definitely wishing I lived south of the border right now
Jimmy, where the heck did you get all those lights?
I wish our HS had a setup like yours!
Here's to being dirt broke in a small Canadian town :P
Thanks, and they are actually my personal lighting equiptment, I senior portraits, work for clothing companies, and cover sporting events. Doing that is what has helped pay for all of my photography gear.
And in regard to spelling, I'm not even in charge of the actual page design or text, I hope they don't make any spelling mistakes!) I'll fix whats on my first post, thanks for pointing that out.
Cool series.. #9 was funny and #21 well done (also funny). The only lighting nit I'd have is for the most spirited one (#3) having that horrible reflection off the back wall.. very distracting. The rest is a notch above your typical YB photography. Way more creative and interesting than my yearbooks from the early 90's.
Awesome set of yearbook photographs. We had this with our school but sadly a random staffer would shoot for the yearbook shots and nothing special. I like how you went out of the way and produced different shots that people will enjoy.
As for the person who thinks its a problem for parents/lawsuits, seriously, this probably happens in a lot of other schools and its something fun to look over. It happened in my school and I never heard any complaints. Some people are REALLY bent out of shape over the little fun things.
Chris Langer wrote:
So where are you going to college and what are you doing?
I'm looking at going to Seattle Central for Commercial Photography and I plan to make a living shooting commercial and sport photography. DannWunderlich wrote:
talk to me about the lighting setup in 8
Simple, my ARB800 on[around] camera on 1/16 power, F11, ISO 100, 1/160. Very minimal PP, light about 4 inches from their face
edit: and a lot of convincing them that their temporary blindness would be worth the final results:P
your pictures look amazing. i really love the quality of the pictures. is the quality due to the camera/lens you're using or is it more from the postprocessing work? can you share your tips on how much postprocessing you did? i'm just starting to shoot in RAW and i don't know what i'm doing. thanks in advance.
Thanks everyone! I thought this thread was dead, sorry for the delayed responce, simonnyc wrote:
your pictures look amazing. i really love the quality of the pictures. is the quality due to the camera/lens you're using or is it more from the postprocessing work? can you share your tips on how much postprocessing you did? i'm just starting to shoot in RAW and i don't know what i'm doing. thanks in advance.
Thanks, I'd say the quality is due to the lighting set up to be honest. I used a 5D Mark II with a 24-70 2.8 L lens for some of these shots, and I used a Rebel XT with a kit lens for some of these shots and I don't think anyone will be able to tell which is which just by looking at the image. And the quality of the gear (at least price wise) is varies dramatically. The consistent factor in all of these photos is my lighting. In regard to processing I only do very minor changes in LR2. Usually contrast adjustments, tone curve, WB, color temps, exposure, some dodging or burning. No major adjustments on any of these really.
I must say you are amazing! I really enjoyed looking at your work, great setups, things i would never think of. Wonderful! I love your setup pics, I would rather look at them then the pics just to see how you did some of your shots.
For the best eyes shot. Trash the strobe and get them outdoors in natural light.
Eye's always look better in natural light. Especially people who have great eyes.
i really like the whole set. it's nice to see a cohesive theme and style. except the "best eyes" one. i like the shot, but the girl's mascara is frightening. honestly, it might be worth grabbing them and reshooting, and have someone else do her eyes. just my $.02 ... who knows maybe i'm the only one it bothers
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well done