Showing posts with label studio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label studio. Show all posts

Friday, July 2, 2010

Natural Light!



I started a photo shoot this week using studio lighting and noticed the light coming in from the nearby window on a rainy day. I turned off all electronics and used natural light and a reflector for the attached images. I loved the results! Please take a look for yourself.

natural implies lacking artificiality and self-consciousness and having a spontaneousness suggesting the natural rather than the man-made world...

I stepped away from technology and used what was there. There is so much man made everything out there from cell phones, to computers and with computers of course there is Facebook and e-chat and Skype... Also, in reference to man made...how many of you would rather look at a landscape that was created by nature or a landscape created by man such as skylines? I choose nature....

What if we were to turn off all electronics in our world and begin to notice, once again, what is naturally there. I bet everything would become more vivid from the color of a sunset to the smell of the rain. Without the electronics there would be no compulsions to turn away from what is right there before us. Use nature as your headphones, your eyes to see beauty, and have lunch with a friend with the cell phones turned off...

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

Friday, November 7, 2008

Product Photography--Still Life vs. Live Photography




Hi all! Another week is drawing to a close. Busy week! The election is over ... now we can concentrate on something else! My topic today is Still Life photography. While in Northern Vietnam I took the attached shot at a roadside stand. I love taking photos of natural beauty. I am sure when setting up shop they did not intend for the display to be eye catching but it did catch my eye. I took several shots like this one of goods for sale all over Northern Vietnam. Product photography in a sense. Product and website photography is creative. I enjoy doing it and have done quite a bit professionally. The subjects are quite "still" which is good but live subjects give me the advantage of catching animated expression. My style in the studio with live subjects as many of my clients know...is to talk and make them feel at ease. Then I click away and capture personality. It is almost like you catch the twinkle in the subject's eye. Attached you will find one still life and one image of Sam Watkins that I believe shows personality. Check out his website for more pictures and give a listen to his music! http://www.samwatkinscountry.com/ It is worth your while! Love to all of you!LA:)