I got a brief opportunity to shoot with Caroline working with Ann’s makeup team. I was impressed with her classic beauty and elegance. Too bad she had to run; wish I had more time to work with her. I am thinking of WWII 50′s look, with Chinese dress. Hmm… Read more »
Archive for April, 2011
Caroline
Posted in Equipment, Lighting, Post-Processing with tags A-List Makeup, Beauty Dish, Caroline Vu, Head Shot on April 13, 2011 by projectxoSimple Still Life Setup
Posted in Equipment, Lighting, Post-Processing with tags CLS, Color Checker, Disk, Drive, HDD, Nikon, Orbis, SB-800, Still Life, Toshiba on April 5, 2011 by projectxo
This picture combines two things I am very passionate about: a) photography, and b) disk drives. One pays for the other; if only I can get that reversed… But I digress. In this post, I am going to show you how to do a still-life product shot quickly. Read more »
DLWS Kauai Final Shoot – Fire Knife Dancer
Posted in Lighting, Post-Processing, Travel with tags Anini, Beach, CLS, Dance, DLWS, Fire, Flash, Hawaii, Kauai, Knife, Nikon on April 2, 2011 by projectxo
This is our final shoot from DLWS Kauai. The location is Anini Beach; a quiet location with very calm water. Besides the pleasant scenery; we were there for the main event – fire knife dancer Paul! Read more »
DLWS Kauai – Surf’s Up!
Posted in Lighting, Personal, Post-Processing, Travel with tags DLWS, FlexTT5, FP Sync, High Speed Sync, Nikon CLS, Pocket Wizard, Portrait, Pualani, SB-800, SB-900, Surf on April 1, 2011 by projectxo
Our assignment for 3rd day morning was to take portraits of each other with and without flash. Now this is more in my alley. Our group decided to pool together our Nikon speed lights; this way, we would be able to overpower the ambient light and cycle really fast if we needed to. Read more »
