Category Archives: Lighting Set up

MVNCI – Royal Court 2013 – Portrait Session

By Moses | Published
Jan
19
2014

For the past 4 years, I’ve had the honor of photographing the Miss Vietnam Northern California Intercollegiate Court and every year I’ve picked a photographer I admire to inspire me when planning for the shoot. Last year, it was a tone down version of Terry Richardson’s ring flash white background portraits. http://mosessison.com/2012/07/hklt-royal-court-2012-editorial-preview. This year I decided that I wanted a Martin Schoeller inspired shoot. Here are the results.

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Much props to phlearn.com for providing an awesome tutorial on what type of lighting to use.

 

Jill Greenberg Style Lighting

By Moses | Published
Oct
08
2011

One of my favorite photographers is Jill Greenberg. I’ve always been fascinated with her “Babies Crying” headshot / portrait project. I wanted to recreate something very similar but I didn’t really have any babies lying round to shoot let alone make cry so I had to improvise.  I asked my girlfriend and her friend to model for me one Sunday afternoon and below are the pictures we ended up creating.

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I actually used a lighting break down illustrated in one of  David Hobby’s blog entry but I replaced the ring light with a Lastolite Trigrip for fill. I actually won that reflector at the Flash Bus Tour in San Jose. I am probably going to use this headshot / portrait lighting when I shoot a couple of execs up in San Fransisco this weekend.