A Rockin Photo Kid Photo Shoot

It's always fun to set up a photo booth at school. I took all these shots of the photo kids when I was shooting Sarah for the Vodka and Caviar ad. It's always great to have people like these as my friends. They are my little school family. They rock! There may be more to come, but these are some of my favorites for now. I shot them with my Canon 30D using my 70-200mm lens.

Mountain Man

I shot this for James' second assignment where we had to use a mixture of natural and artificial light. I decided David would be selling the mountains of North Carolina. Everyone needs to take the time to go to the mountains. David, Cindy, Jonathan, and I went to visit Biltmore Estate this weekend, and it was gorgeous there. David makes the perfect mountain man. I shot it with a Nikon D200 and a hand held that Jonathan held for me.

Neighbor

Thank you to my wonderful neighbor Daniel for modeling for me so I could shoot this for James' class. I shot it with my Canon 30D, with my 17-40mm lens. We went to the big construction area outside our apartment complex, and I had him get in a giant concrete sewage connector. The ISO was 100, and my exposure was 1/125 s @ f/4. I might try and redo this shot to get the triangles that were formed by his glasses and the shadows out of the shot.

Tanja Business Portrait

I shot this for Tanja, a girl who lives in the flat above Ashley's studio.  Her boyfriend is Leigh, the guy in the photo on my blog laughing.  She is applying for a job in advertising at a corporate company in London, and wanted a photo for the application that was unique and showed her personality.  It was shot with a Canon Mark 2, with a 24-70 mm lens.

Me by Ashley Cameron

Ok, so Ashley made me model to test out some lighting, and then he fixed it up so I didn't look hideous.  We were testing out lighting styles that I might like to use for when I shot my portrait of Leigh.  We did quite a few different lighting styles and setups, but I personally wanted to experiment with getting a glow around the face for my first portrait.  It is a better technique to use with males, rather than females, because males have stubbly faces already.  It shows all texture on females!  But he was managed to bring out my eyes in it!  This is Ashley's site, in case you were curious about seeing who I am interning for here in London!  He is really good!!  You will enjoy seeing his work!  http://www.ashleycameron.com

Leigh

This may be the start of a series I try and do of laughing people who seem to be enjoying themselves.  This was also the very first photo I have done with lighting/etc since being on internship that is my photo.  Ashley helped me to accomplish the lighting style I liked, and Leigh was kind enough to model for me.  It was shot using a Canon Mark 2.  Thank you again to Ashley, who taught me some of the ways to make the photo pop more in photoshop.  It took around 4 times redoing the retouching before I was able to make it look like this, and I am excited for everyone to see it!