2 light setup.

I recently had the opportunity to work with a Michigan native currently residing in Juneau for some head shot work. I shot this with two lights a reflector and some much appreciated help from a friend. I bought a strip box some time ago but lately It's been getting a lot more use these days plus in my opinion it gives a cool looking elongated catch light in the eyes as opposed to your standard more "natural" looking round catch lights that you find in nature. I set the strip box up camera right at about eye level with my subject as my key light and tweaked it from there. My second light was an umbrella setup, I've had this setup for quite some time now and it still gets the job done. It's basically a strobe shot against a silver interior that bounces back through a diffusion material that connects to the umbrella. It's not the softest of modifiers but like said earlier it gets the the job done and It's fairly cheap for someone getting into off camera lighting/strobe stuff. and last I had my assistant use a reflector to bring some much needed light that was falling into hard shadow under my subjects chin. I had fun working with Leah and I hope my next shoot and blog post aren't to far apart.

Back into the mix.

I started out shooting BMX over 15 years ago and slowly got into product photography while studying Commercial Photography at Seattle Central. since then I've been off and on with photography but most recently I started getting back into it and shooting portraits is my thing these days. Shooting in studio is cool but I really like shooting on location, for me It's the best and most challenging and rewarding feeling. From start to finish a shoot is fun and at times a little nerve racking but in a good way. Alaska has the perfect backdrop for some awesome location shoots, down south scouting a location can take hours, out here in Alaska I barely have to roll out of bed to find an excellent spot to shoot in, It's way too easy to find a good spot and I have to remind myself not to take it for granted because this beauty wont be here forever.