Natasha

Natasha, a photo by The Real Darren Stone on Flickr.

This is shot with one White Lightning X1600 and a beauty dish. You can see the dish reflected in the glasses. The light created is between that of a direct flash and a softbox, hence giving the image a contrasted look, which adds a dramatic effect. Post processing ws minor touch up and Poalpan film emulation with Alien Skin Exposure CS5 plug-in. Polapan was a Polaroid slide film that gave accidental blue/pink colour shifts.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM Lens
1/100 sec, f/10.0
100 ISO

Jr. Hockey FINALLY!

Junior hockey finally returned to Victoria. I’ve been waiting 16 years to shoot the juniors again.The best hockey in the world. Here’s to a great season!

This is a shot from the first period of  Victoria Royals Jesse Zgraggen getting dumped onto Kelowna Rockets goalie Jordan Cooke .

EOS-1D Mark IV
EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM
1/1000 sec
f/2.8
1250ISO

 

 

Wonderland Protest

VICTORIA, B.C.: SEPTEMBER 10, 2011-Left to right, Lucille Wunderlich, Isobel Gordon, Sandra Dixon and Barbara Walters dressed as Alice in Wonderland characters for Connect the Dots for Mental Health on World Wide Suicide Prevention Day on Government Street in Victoria, B.C. September  10, 2011. (DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST).

Char

Char, a photo by The Real Darren Stone on Flickr.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II
EF85mm f/1.8 USM
1/100 sec,f/10
ISO 50
AlienBees ABR 800 Ring Flash

Starting to get used to the ring flash. It’s really fun to use and gives interesting lighting. I love the halo effect. The trick is to stop the lens down as you move toward the subject and open it up as you move away. This is because you are shooting in manual and the flash source moves with you changing the exposure. It’s not that hard to get used to and it becomes quite intuitive. Very little Photoshop  post -processing. I’m finding as my lighting gets more refined the Photoshop required is minimal.

Rob Zombie and Slayer

Rob Zombie

Canon EOS 7D
EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM
115.0 mm
1/1000 sec,f/2.8
6400 ISO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slayer

Canon EOS 40D
EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
1/200 sec,F/3.5
1600 ISO

Sophia test shoot-AlienBees ABR800 Ringflash Unit

Did a test shoot of Coultish Management  model Sophia with AlienBees ABR800 ringflash unit. I used the flash alone for the image on the left. The flat lighting with no shadows has a nice, if somewhat trendy fashion look to it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For this second image I used the flash as a fill with a 22″ beauty dish off to the right. The ring flash was set  two stops under the beauty dish flash.

Gotcha!

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon 300mm f/2.8L IS USM
1/640 sec
f/4.0
ISO 400

Natasha-Coat

Natasha-Coat, a photo by The Real Darren Stone on Flickr.

Canon 5D Mark 2
Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II
1/100 sec
f/6.3
White lightning 1600x Large softbox
Flash Exp f/9.0

Natasha

Natasha, a photo by The Real Darren Stone on Flickr.

Canon 5D Mark 2
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
1/100 sec
f/6.3
White lightning 1600x Large softbox
Flash Exp f/9.0

Back to the studio

Emily

Now that I’ve secured studio space I’ll be getting back to work on my fashion portfolio. I’ll update the blog with some of the technical information as I go.

I’ll be using the Canon 5D Mark 2 for all of the images. I do quite a bit of Photoshop post -processing  so I will incorporate this in the blogs.

I’ve mentioned this before, but just about everything I do in Photoshop can be learned at Lynda .com.

As far as lighting goes I’ll be staying with one strobe (and use a reflector when necessary). The studio has a boom stand so I’ll be able to get some interesting light effects.

So the light will be a single White Lightning 1600X . I’ll  use a translucent white shoot-through umbrella for the beauty shots and  a Photogenic 60″ Eclipse Plus Umbrella for most of the fashion shots.