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asked by StephcoutureDepends how you light the venue. If it's a small venue with a lower ceiling and you are putting your flashes in opposite corners and aiming them at the roof for a soft blanket of light, then no, you don't have to re-adjust anything, fire away.
If you're lighting people independently (i.e. people on the dance floor, speeches, etc) and shooting manually (not using TTL) then as long as the distance between your flash and subject(s) remains relatively constant, then you won't have to adjust your camera settings. If they do move closer or further away, you can always quickly account for that by adjusting your aperture without having to touch the power settings on your flash. -
1. I rarely use lighting as a 'fill', for my style I either use it to completely control the scene, or not at all. For natural light modifiers I have a big ass translucent reflector that I place between the subject as the sun, essentially making a big natural light softbox, which gives super beautiful soft light. As for how often to use it, I can't really answer that, because it all depends on what kind of feel you want out of your photo. If natural light is providing the look you want, don't mess with it, and if it's not, bust out the lighting.
2. My workflow varies on what I am shooting, but I always shoot RAW:
- For portrait / commercial work, I bring everything into LR3, make my selects, then basically just adjust contrast with a simple 'S' curve. If I flop the exposure on an image or two which we all do, I adjust it in LR3 as well. From there I export the selects and do any skin work that might be needed. For skin I always manually edit with the heal brush, softening filters are garbage.
- Weddings I've started using VSCO (visualsupply.co) with LR3 and its dramatically reduced my editing time. I've just in the last two days created an import preset using a recipe I created using VSCO. If you haven't checked them out, I'd recommend giving them a look.
I also grabbed a copy of Photo Mechanic a couple days ago which I have yet to actually put into my workflow, but it will make sorting through the RAW files much quicker, as LR3 can be a bit of a pig about it. -
I don't have any planned as of right now, but I was hoping to put something together in the spring. Just haven't decided what city yet.... email me nathanelson [at] gmail [dot] com
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Amazing is a stretch, but thank you :)
Honestly I have a bunch of BTS video that I have yet to put together, but my computer is such a piece that it can't handle the workload of putting it together, BUT I hit the purchase button yesterday morning on a new system so that should be here in a couple of weeks and I can finally get that stuff finished.
Keep an eye out, its coming eventually!
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Hey Amanda!
I haven't been doing any workshops, but I have been doing some one on one style of teaching, if that interests you send me an email and we can chat about it :) nathanelson [at] gmail [dot] com. -
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Heya, I'm assuming you mean my 'creative' shoot in Bragg Creek, as Justine is definitely not a creature :)
Setups were as follows.
Setup with model standing:
- AB800 w/ octabox above and camera right.
- AB800 with 20ยบ grid above and camera left for hair light.
- Both lights powered by one alien bee vagabond battery pack.
- Hot-Shoe flash on ground camera left in roots to bring out texture.
- Small smoke machine powered by second alien bee vagabond.
- Canon 5D w/ 24-105 f/4L
Shot laying on tree:
- One AB800 with octabox held by assistant floating it over top of model using the light stand as a boom arm.
Canon 5D w/ 24-105 f/4L
Hope that helps and have fun :) -
I can't say that I had an absolute favorite, but I do have a top 3. In no particular order:
1. Karate Pajamas (what little boy didn't love these)
2. An electric truck that had 16 wheels and could climb pretty much anything.
3. Walkie Talkie's (I still remember opening this and losing my bloody mind at Christmas). -
I hope that if its my last photograph I will have reached the old man kind of crazy, and at that point I'll just use a homemade pinhole camera and a desk lamp to photograph a cat, but I'll be crazy at this point so I will likely think I'm photographing my favorite celebrity with an H-series and a boatload of D1 Airs.
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Running 40km sounds downright awful, cycling 200km would be fun as long as you had a good seat, and driving 1000km is nothing new to me at all, I do that quite a few times a year.
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I actually love the morning when everyone is getting ready. There is this awesome sense of anticipation of whats about to happen.
And of course formals are like a really high paced fashion shoot which is pretty wicked too :) -
I've recently started doing business with Willow Paper Works out of Ontario and have been extremely impressed with not only the product but with the customer service (which is a huge thing for me).
You can check them out at www.willowpaperworks.com -
Tough question to answer without seeing an example of what you're trying to capture. Feel free to email me an example and I will be able to help out a lot more.
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Make....no, but I won't be upset if she wants too and I get to buy cool toys that I'll like playing with too :)
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WOW, I wasn't actually getting any notifications saying that anyone was asking anything, so I am getting on that right now :) My bad. Guess I should be checking manually.
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Nathan Elson Photography’s Bio
Calgary based photographer specializing in creative portraiture combining awesome locations with amazing lighting.
