Archive for category In Studio
Take My Picture
Posted by Ryan in In Studio, Pretty Girls on June 10, 2010
Randall as photographed at Heather Windsor Studio in Bowmanville, Ontario. Randall made the trek all the way from Oakville to Bowmanville on a busy Saturday afternoon, and we burned off a ton of photos in about an hour before she had to trek back to Oakville for a function. Her round trip took about three times as long as the actual shoot! This is further proof that she’s amazing.
If you missed it, a behind-the-scenes image is here and you can also check out our swank video from the shoot.
Wardrobe: Victoria’s Secret PINK. Both Randall and I are super-excited about real Victoria’s Secret stores opening in Toronto soon!
Lighting: Nikon SB-900 on camera with Gary Fong Lightsphere collapsible, Nikon SB-800 to camera left, Alien Bees 400 with pink gel on the background.
RSQUARED Revealed
Posted by Ryan in In Studio, Pretty Girls on May 9, 2010
Randall is seen here posing in the freight elevator at Heather Windsor’s studio in Bowmanville, Ontario. This is pretty much the hottest photo I’ve ever taken of Randall; she amazes me every time we shoot by constantly stepping it up. During our shoot, she acknowledged studying the contact sheets from our previous shoots to learn her best angles and poses. This is why she can look six feet tall in this photo despite being nowhere near that. Is she ready for the Victoria’s Secret catalogue? I think so.
In summary, Randall is the awesomeness and I love her. Can’t wait ’til we shoot again.
Wardrobe: H&M lingerie that I got on sale ($7 for the bra, $5 for the thong).
Lighting: Profoto Pro Ring 2 and daylight.
RSQUARED: Randall + Ryan
Posted by Ryan in In Studio, Pretty Girls, Videos on May 4, 2010
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Here’s me and Randall in the studio on Saturday. Keep checking back for the results of this shoot!
Music by Goldfrapp and Richard X.
RSQUARED
Posted by Ryan in In Studio, Pretty Girls on May 2, 2010
Ryan (me, front) + Randall (hotness, back) = RSQUARED.
Video still from today’s shoot. Stay tuned for the results.
Samantha in the Studio
Posted by Ryan in In Studio, Pretty Girls, Time Lapse Videos on March 6, 2010
I’ve been using my friend Heather’s studio lately. Winter sucks for shooting as I’m pretty accustomed to shooting outdoors. And although our current Toronto winter is better than most, it’s still far too frigid to shoot outdoors on a regular basis.
The studio is in Bowmanville, which is a long trek for me, but totally worth it. A couple weeks ago, I shot a familiar face for those of you who follow the blog — Samantha. I’ve only processed one shot from the shoot so far:
The pose and outfit was Sam’s idea. I lit her with an Alien Bees 1600 strobe in a Photoflex softbox, up high to camera right. The background is dark grey seamless paper, lit with a Nikon SB-800 on a tripod. The SB-800′s zoom head was set to about 135mm, for a narrow beam of light across the background, just enough to give Sam some separation.
But I also did another fun time-lapse video:
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The video is composed of 2,290 separate pictures, glued together using QuickTime Pro (version 7, as they’ve stripped this functionality out of the newer versions). I was using my ancient Nikon D70S tethered to a MacBook Pro running Sofortbild. Because the D70S doesn’t have an intervalometer built in, the Sofortbild software is necessary to accomplish pictures at set intervals. Despite setting the intervals to one second, I ended up with photos that were five seconds apart. I suspect this is due to the D70S’s slow buffering, processing, and/or transfer speeds, but I don’t know for sure as I have no real way to test it.
Music: Anger (Rare Force 2 Meg Mix) by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Self Portrait
It took about 30 shots to get this one. Self portraits are something I’ve never been good at, nor even interested in. However, after shooting a model today in the studio, the light streaming in from the windows was too good to pass up.
The biggest challenge was getting myself in focus, since I can’t see myself through the viewfinder. I put a Nikon D700 on a tripod with an 85mm f/1.4 lens. After a few attempts at guessing the focus and failing, I eventually removed the camera from the tripod and brought it with me to where I would stand for the portrait. I then pointed the camera at the tripod and focused on it, to simulate the distance. Initially I was trying shots at f/2.8 because I wanted to make sure the depth of field was shallow enough to throw the background out of focus. This left very little leeway for any mistakes in my distance from the camera, as even an inch or two closer or further away could render myself blurry. I eventually bumped up the aperture to f/4 which gave me a bit more room to play with, without impacting the background too much.
The light was very, very warm as the sun was setting, but I cooled it down and desaturated it using Adobe Lightroom.
One Year Ago Today
Posted by Ryan in In Studio, Pretty Girls, Time Lapse Videos on February 1, 2010
One year ago today, I shot in a studio for the first time.
I’ve posted photos from this shoot before, but now you can glimpse behind the scenes to see how it was done in this time lapse video.
Model: Randall Sutton. Music: “Lovely Allen” by Holy Fuck.
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