Graduation

Tomorrow I move on and grauate from high school. I could write a blog on all the thoughts and such that graduation evokes, but I will refrain. I figured this would be a good oppertunity to try out the 'seamless' wall again. This was my first attempt at a full body shot. We got a peice of tileboard for the flooring, which makes a killer reflections, and tried the full body shot. Anyways, here's the shot. All the credit goes to Laura- she released the shutter! (click to see it large or see it on Flickr for best quality)

Enjoy,

-matt

(photos look terrible on here- click to view large or visit my flickr for better resolution)

So as I said in the last blog, I'm venturing into some 'studio' work. I use ' 's because I don't have a studio, I have a basement. I'm in the process of ordering some seamless paper and making the shooting area as legit as possible for as absolutly as cheap as possible. Like I said, I have no experience at all with seamless photos, so my friend and I set up a test/ghetto rig. I'm talkin' cardboard 'barn doors' and a stinkin' box spring mattress. Check out the stuff before judging our ghetto setup- i was really pleased with it.



The main challenge was the size of our background. I'm excited to get the 9' wide paper and some tileboard to do some full body shots. The box spring was really limiting in this department.

I'll update on the progress of the mini 'studio'. It would be a sin for me to not throw out Zack Arias's name into the mix. His series on Cyc walls and seamless shooting is pheneminal. I literally have learned every little thing i know about photography from this guy. Ok well and a little from the strobist blog too!

enjoy!

-matt

Here's the setup for the blackout shot below (also on Flickr for better quality):

My inspiration came from the strobist blog. I really wish i had a softbox to use, but I used the reflective umbrella to try and reduce all the light falloff that i could. The softbox would'a helped a ton, but some quick fixes in ps finished the blackout. The SB 600 was set to 1/2 if i remember correctly, and I shot at max sync speed to black out the dark green wall. The flash was triggered by Cactus ebay triggers, and the camera was tripoded. The color treatment was all LR adjustments, and so minor adjuestments in PS were done to really blacken the black, If that makes any sense.



My next venture is into some white seamless. Borowing my buddy's D90 to fire both of my SB 600's, hopefully we can get some good results with the new setup.

Enjoy!

-matt