Amy in Blue

September 7, 2009

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”:

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:

Erika

March 13, 2009

This is Erika, wearing my shirt, from three years ago this month. Beautiful, ain’t she? I hadn’t seen Erika in a while until recently, and it reminded me of how great she looked in front of the camera. In turn, she reminded me that I had no photos of her on my website! Hence this blog post.

If I revealed the contact sheets from this shoot, it would be obvious that I was not a tremendous photographer three years ago. I hope Erika gives me a second chance to shoot her, even though she doesn’t fancy herself a “model”. She’s tall and thin and just look at that face! I’d say she qualifies.

Technical details: Nikon D70 with 24-85mm lens @ f/8, 1/250, ISO 200, one Alien Bees strobe bounced into an umbrella.