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Wonderland Studio Shoot with Westcott Products

Apr22
2012 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

My friend and fellow photographer Devin Workman often does some really interesting photo shoots and I have wanted to collaborate with him on some projects for quite a while and this weekend the stars aligned and we hooked up to do a fun shoot at Wonderland Studios in Anaheim, Ca.

Part of the goal of this shoot was to try out some new modifiers from one of my favorite companies FJ Westcott. The two main products that we were working with were the 7′ White Reflective Umbrella and the 43″ Orb Softbox.

After using these two products for a day of shooting they are my new favorite modifiers. The light quality from these large modifiers is super smooth while still being controllable.

Here is a setup shot showing just the 43″ Orb being used to light the model. Because of the Orb’s large size, we only needed this single modifier. In this case we were using an Alien Bees AB1600 on only about 1/32 power with the camera on ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/250th second. This gave us super fast recycle times with enough power to still use a very low ISO setting and avoid any digital noise in the image.

I will be doing a complete review of these products on Camera Dojo soon so stayed tuned for more information. To see more of the images from this shoot, visit my SMUGMUG site at http://kgarrison.smugmug.com.

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LA ShootThis! Group Shoot Event March 25th

Mar26
2012 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

I talk a lot about working with other photographers to improve your skills, learn new tricks, and collaborate on projects together so I often attend group shoots whenever I can. This weekend we had a shoot planned with the LA ShootThis! group and as we were getting started, the rain started coming down. The sky was gray and ugly so I took a tip from my friend Chris Diset and set the camera’s white balance to tungsten and gelled the flash with a 1/2 CTO gel. This got the skin tones really nice but turned the dull gray sky into something a little more interesting.

We finally relocated into a dry parking structure for some more shooting and I chose a spot with almost no ambient lighting so that I could have total control over the lighting.

In this shot, I used a single 24″ softbox from BlackbeltLighting.com and had Amanda turned directly facing the light. This harsh angle provided a nice soft light on her face while illuminating the back wall at the same time.

In this next shot, I had pulled the softbox about 15′ away from the wall so that it wouldn’t light up the wall and then used a second flash with the same 1/2 CTO gel as before pointed at the side of his head to create the hair light.

With Kelsey, I didn’t want the lighting to be quite as dramatic so I placed a third light to camera right with an ExpoImaging Rouge Flashbender as a basic fill light. I still had the 24″ softbox and gelled hair light in the same position as the shot of JK above.

Moving the gelled light from the side to directly behind Kelsey’s head. we got a completely different look with a dramatic rim light effect.

To see more pictures from the event, check out my SmugMug Gallery.

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Parkour/Free Running Photo Shoot

Jun09
2011 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

Man am I behind in getting some of my own work posted but I wanted to share this recent photo shoot that I did with some local Parkour guys. The event was put together in conjunction with http://24-7mag.com and the OC Photo Club. I also put together some video from the event that you can watch below the image slideshow.

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SMUGMUG Riverside Meeting

Mar20
2011 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

I was quite thrilled to be asked to be an instructor at today’s SMUGMUG Lighting & Posing Event. This was the second opportunity I have had recently to shoot at Shutter Stories Studio. We had a great set of models and photographers that all came together to haver a great time shooting and learning. I set up a really simple lighting setup to show people how to get started with basic lighting tools and still be able to get creative lighting. Here are a few of my favorites even though I didn’t really shoot much as I was making sure the photographers got to take as many as possible.

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Molly Sandn in Hollywood

Mar06
2011 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

This past weekend I ran into Molly Sandon (Wikipedia link) while leading a photography group shooting around Hollywood. Molly and her publicist where trying to get some shots around local landmarks. We had a quick meeting and decided to get some shots for her to use during her US tour. We went on to do a quick photo shoot around the Hollywood sign. Here are a couple off the images from the shoot.

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LA Shoot This – Craig Park

Jun28
2010 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

It was my honor to be asked to speak again at the LA Shoot This group. This time I talked about getting your exposure and your white balance nailed in-camera. When it came to the shooting, the models were absolutely wonderful, there was enough of a breeze to keep us from overheating, and the location offered a nice variety of shooting locations. Here is a handful of some of my favorites shots of the day.

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LA Shoot This! Star Wars Theme at UCLA

May24
2010 1 Comment Written by KerryG

Joelle picked a pretty cool location for this month’s LA Shoot This! event and chose an “out of this world” theme complete with a handful of Star Wars characters and some models done up in some futuristic garb. We all had a great time trying to come up with ideas, playing with lighting, gels, and off-camera flash. Here are my favorite pics from the day.

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CSUF Veteran Appreciation Night

May03
2010 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

It was my absolute pleasure to donate my time to shoot free family portraits during this year’s Veteran Appreciation Night at Cal State University Fullerton. As a photographer, I try to give back to the community as best I can and I provided my services at no charge so that the association can sell the images to people as a fund raiser for next year’s event. I can’t be prouder of the men and women in our Armed Services so this is the least I can do to help out such a worthy cause.

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Los Angeles Shoot This! Event April 25th

Apr28
2010 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

This past weekend I headed up to Diamond Bar to help out at the LA Shoot This! meetup. I gave a presentation on off-camera lighting and Greg Bumatay talked about composition fundamentals. Afterward we split up and helped aspiring photographers to get some awesome shots of some incredible models.  As one of the instructors I didn’t get as many shots in as the attendees did, but I managed to snap off a few. Here are some of my favorites.

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HSSA Banquet

Apr18
2010 Leave a Comment Written by KerryG

My wife is very involved with human services, volunteers at different places, goes to school full time to work on her degree, and is heavily involved in making people’s lives better. That’s really what human services is all about. From drug abuse, to child welfare, to domestic violence, and everything in-between, the people that do human services work are some of the most amazing people I have ever met. It was my absolute honor to provide a photobooth service at last night’s function for them to help raise money for their ongoing activities. I highly encourage other photographers to find charities and/or groups in their area that they can help out with projects like this, it is so worthwhile and fulfilling on many, many levels. Here are a few of the shots we did last night.

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