Now that the dry part is done, it’s time for the wetness to begin! So about 30 seconds after we started shooting this setup, it started to rain in earnest. And then it just kept on raining more and more until finally we had had enough. But not before we caught some [...]

Sometimes nature has a funny sense of humor. But I guess living in Austin, TX I should have realized that by now.
Emily and I had planned to shoot for a while and finally the stars aligned so that we could get together and attempt to make some magic! The weather forecast [...]

On Wednesday’s shoot, we had Kaydence in front of a lovely shag carpet, lit from 2 sources with one reflector? Well what happens when we strip away everything but a blank wall and one diffuse light source?

In this setup, the only thing lighting Kaydence was one 4 foot octobox. She had no reflector [...]

Hi all!
Thanks for sticking with me in my time of few shoots! I managed to wrangle my equipment away from my commercial gig to get some time in with a model here in Austin, TX for some fashion/editorial work. Now, obviously the clothing isn’t terribly Haute Couture, but the lighting principles could be [...]

I had such a great time with Chloe at our country shoot that we decided to do it again!

Shooting fashion is always fun since you usually get to work with a team (stylists, model, art director and so forth, but this time it was just myself, Chloe, and our makeup and hair artist, Maggie Bosworth.  [...]

For today’s shoot, my brave model, Chloe, and I braved 103 degree heat to shoot at Canyon Lake, just North of New Braunfels, TX.
The location was great, if a little hard to get to, and definitely worth the hour drive.

Setup:
The main light is a beauty dish’d strobe, above and left of the model, illuminating the [...]

As promised, here is the second part of the shoot: Low Key lighting with basically the same setup.

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The lighting setup is the same as here, but in the first shot, there is no rim light at all and the beauty dish is moved even more overhead to accentuate the shadows. Also, the reflector [...]

Today’s shoot focused on making an image that really pops off of the page. Fun and playful.

The primary light was a beauty dish (my fave) above and to the right of the model, about 3 feet away. She’s lit from behind by two brollied strobes, aimed at each other to light the wall [...]