vtography.com blog » dartmouth http://www.vtography.com/blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:18:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Amy in Blue http://www.vtography.com/blog/2009/09/07/amy-in-blue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amy-in-blue http://www.vtography.com/blog/2009/09/07/amy-in-blue/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:29:05 +0000 vtography http://www.vtography.com/blog/?p=709 My day job is working in a photo lab and occasionally a roll of photo paper gets exposed or damaged and becomes unusable. I took one of these damaged rolls with me on my road trip to Nova Scotia this past July and put it to good use in a photoshoot with Amy. Amy is one of my best friends on this planet, despite living a million miles away from me. We trekked up to a gazebo on the top of a hill overlooking the Halifax harbour. This wasn’t the best idea, as the higher elevation meant stronger winds, which temporarily wreaked havoc with my umbrella lighting setup until I found a way to secure it.

Here’s the setup… Amy builds our paper nest as her superhero alter-ego, “FujiFilm Girl”:

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Amy was a trooper, on the mend from a bad cough and sore throat. She did her own hair and makeup, and wore the H&M party dress that I brought along with me from Toronto. I foolishly forgot the matching black gloves to go with it. For lighting, I put a Nikon SB-800 in a shoot-thru umbrella to camera left and triggered it with the SB-900 on my D200. The result:

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What does one do with 180m of unspooled photo paper? We couldn’t just leave it there. See for yourself:

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