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It's Not The Light, Its What You Do With It.


Standard soft-light shot with umbrella

Snoot light for that film-noir look

This past weekend I had the opportunity to shoot with a very talented East Coast makeup artist, and an amazing model (!)
          Since I knew that I would be working in a relatively small space, and did not want to set up lots of plugged in lights, I used a Vivitar 285-HV speed light and bounce umbrella. Once we got the images we were after, but before we wrapped the shot and struck the set, I dropped a snoot on the light, swiveled it around, and tried my version of a "noir / vintage album cover" look. These are just quick samples of both styles, pretty much as they look straight from the camera. The refined, polished, edited versions will be coming up later - but it is nice to see that even a small and often overlooked "old-school" flash unit can still create pretty impressive light!

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