maelee
08.13.08 | seniors
for a girl who would rather don a helmet on an
all-terrain vehicle than a dress, maelee surely
rocked it up during her funtastic senior portrait
session. within three whopping hours of photo
action, photo ingredients included some pretty
kern-photo light, edgy lightpainting, sand &
water fun, and then topped off some ghetto
graffitti flare. ‘variety is the spice of life’
was the anthem of this session garnished with our
fresh. fun. modern. perspectives :)
view maelee’s slideshow HERE. be sure to sign the guest book & see more images on pictage HERE.
another anti-senior portrait, captured as is, with no color-correction or special effects:
a variation with additional creativity:
maelee wanted her atv part of her senior portrait, so we found some authentic denver graffitt and cross-light it with two off-camera strobes (filtered with a special kern-photo 25 cent snoot to reduce light spread).
maelee issued at top notch photography school assignment inspired from a michael jordan shot we all know (palming the basketball in one hand). she really liked the “knowledge is power” graffitti in the background with the moon, but getting both in the same shot was the challenge because of the sheer angles. however... where there is a will, there is ALWAYS a way. and since the client is the supreme boss, we managed to climb up a 12-foot storage container (yes, a waiver was signed) and shot this at f/8. to pull in the ambiant light, a shutter speed of 1/15 second was used along with some flash flavor thanks to our nikon sb-600 flash i-ttl minus 1 stop at iso 800. to capture the wide angle, our nikon 12-24 f/4 lens served as the perspective on our nikon d300. no tripod or lightstand was used, mainly because we had to work fast, or go home.
a variation on the above shot with a different angle and some mild post-processing. the same single off-camera sb-600 was wirelessly triggered and shot through a mini-soft box handheld by videographer guru brian martinez, who also experimented with some steady-cam hd video during our shoot. stay tuned in his video which will offer behind-the-scenes action of how we ride.
view maelee’s slideshow HERE. be sure to sign the guest book & see more images on pictage HERE.
another anti-senior portrait, captured as is, with no color-correction or special effects:
a variation with additional creativity:
maelee wanted her atv part of her senior portrait, so we found some authentic denver graffitt and cross-light it with two off-camera strobes (filtered with a special kern-photo 25 cent snoot to reduce light spread).
maelee issued at top notch photography school assignment inspired from a michael jordan shot we all know (palming the basketball in one hand). she really liked the “knowledge is power” graffitti in the background with the moon, but getting both in the same shot was the challenge because of the sheer angles. however... where there is a will, there is ALWAYS a way. and since the client is the supreme boss, we managed to climb up a 12-foot storage container (yes, a waiver was signed) and shot this at f/8. to pull in the ambiant light, a shutter speed of 1/15 second was used along with some flash flavor thanks to our nikon sb-600 flash i-ttl minus 1 stop at iso 800. to capture the wide angle, our nikon 12-24 f/4 lens served as the perspective on our nikon d300. no tripod or lightstand was used, mainly because we had to work fast, or go home.
a variation on the above shot with a different angle and some mild post-processing. the same single off-camera sb-600 was wirelessly triggered and shot through a mini-soft box handheld by videographer guru brian martinez, who also experimented with some steady-cam hd video during our shoot. stay tuned in his video which will offer behind-the-scenes action of how we ride.