Ok, so I’ve decided to put up more of my intersting work from the past in order to jumpstart my blog. I did work for Mouth to Mouth after meeting their manager Joe. The shoot was very nerve wrecking, since I’ve never had to manage 5 people in a shoot at the same time. The shoot took place at Bruno’s, a famous venue in San Francisco. I had a makeup artist work on the guys and the shoot took 4 hours total. Initialy I rented studio strobes thinking that I would be able to have a similar style of photos as usual at a club or a bar, which was the location. However, after taking a testshot at home at the lowest setting, I realized that I knew nothing about these lights, since even the lowest setting is 20 times more light than I expected. I went back and rented another Canon 550 flash and two sets of umbrellas. Best decision I could have done. This move allowed me to capture the ambient lights of the club, while having full controll over the light on the subject. Also, the set up is very portable and I have prefered it over studio strobes for on location work. I don’t understand why the strobes have to be so powerfull at the lowest settings! Anyway, I knew the shots I wanted and I did not let a loss of $100 in a bad rental decision slow me down.

One of the guys from the group was feeling a bit anxious, so half the shots where he was supposed to look at the camera he was looking away, or had his eyes closed. Almost every shot we ended up using, I had to transplant this guy’s eyes from other photos. To make a long story short, the post processing was a nightmare.

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