Pixel Darkroom Photography

The two girls I love most.

Strobist info: 580 EX II CL and CR via on camera 580 EX II. Another 580 EX II with snoot CL behind subjects as hair light.

It was about time to get them wizards out and shoot some more in a “controlled” environment. I’m talking about the lights, not the kids. They did fine. We had a wonderful day, so right before playing a few games of Uno and some memory game, I set up quickly (no setup shot, sorry) and had them come over and help me out with today’s shot. Those interested read below for geeky info. The rest of you, come back tomorrow.

Strobist info: 580 EX II into softbox and 580 EX II clamped (w/ Justin Clamp) onto chair with a few gels of some sorts of blue) via Pocket Wizards. BTW, my iPhone application that triggers flashes via Pocket Wizards is almost done. I’ll be doing some tests and I hope you’ll be able to play around with it soon. More to come.

Father & Son.

Strobist info: 580 EX II through snoots, CL and CR via on camera 580 EX II. Small tweaks in Lr.

I have a cold, and I read once in a Cigar Aficionado magazine, that Arthur Rubinstein once gave a kid by the name of Daniel Barenboim a cigar to smoke when he came down with a cold. I thought I’d try it,… sort of. Today’s post production on this photograph was inspired by Maciek Lesniak.

Strobist info: 580 EX II (mis)firing through a snoot from CL, courtesy amazing PC connection from the Pocket Wizard. Ps postproduction with some Falln-Stock smoke brushes and a special BW conversion.

Note: I hope you like the new design of the website. Only small tweaks so far but I hope to bring some improvements.

You may think this is another posed portrait of my son where we were looking for a deep look, dramatic lighting and a great expression. I was actually playing with getting a dramatic lighting but had a different image in mind while he was just finishing his chocolate chip cookies and milk. I snapped a few frames and he got bored. This is just as he was getting bored and you don’t want to see the other ones. I then gave up as I didn’t want to upset him too much, yet again, and focused on something else. You might have ended up with something totally different tonight but when I uploaded the images, I found this, I loved it and here it goes. My son getting bored because of the somewhat repetitive task that Daddy has been doing for 108 Days, now.

Strobist info: 580 EX on a handheld lightstand/boom above CL, triggered via Pocket Wizards. Small tweaks in Lr.

Day One Hundred was a team effort. As were a lot of the set’s images so far. We had done this kind of shot before, when our little girl was only a few months old and I liked the idea. I thought we should put it into practice for this project as well, so we all jumped on the couch. You can imagine that she is not the one supporting all of our weights, although the illusion worked out fine. Here is to one hundred days of daily photography!

Strobist info: 580 EX II into softbox, CR, 580 EX II into white umbrella, CL almost on axis fill, both around 1/2 or 1/1 power and a 580 EX at 1/32 zoomed to 70 CR as hair light/rim light. All triggered via Pocket Wizards.