Portraits – On Taking Pictures https://ontakingpictures.com Photography Podcast Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:12:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://ontakingpictures.com/postImages/cropped-OTP_Logo_1400-32x32.jpg Portraits – On Taking Pictures https://ontakingpictures.com 32 32 Caroline Tamas https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/12/caroline-tamas/ Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:04:41 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=8088 Lighting setups for those interested…
Shot One: Beauty dish (with grid and sock) off to the right at head level with white board as reflector on the other side.
Shot Two: Just beauty dish form above.
Shot Three: Beauty dish (with grid) above and to the right with a ring flash for fill.

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]]> Contact Sheet of a Typical Shoot https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/12/contact-sheet-of-a-typical-shoot/ Mon, 30 Dec 2013 02:02:08 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=8079 Someone recently asked me if I’d consider sharing a contact sheet of one of my shoots, so they could get a sense of the scope of a shoot and my editing process and such. So here you go, a GIANT 3700 pixel wide screenshot (4k monitor baby!). It shows a total of 104 images, I deleted a couple of black frames where the flashes didn’t fire, but the rest are in there once we got started. I should say that this isn’t a ‘typical’ shoot in any normal sense. My friend Caroline was in town and came over for a chat, and since she’s quite the photogenic one, I took the opportunity to shoot some portraits while we were catching up. I’ll post the final selects in a bit. In the meantime, enjoy. I highly suggest that you right-click and ‘save linked file as’ the linked image to your desktop to view it as big as possible.

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]]> Kayla Harrison https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/11/kayla-harrison/ Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:36:04 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=8005 My recent portrait of gold medal olympian Kayla Harrison.

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]]> Molly Ashby in Corporate Board Member magazine https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/11/molly-ashby-in-corporate-board-member-magazine/ Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:18:24 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7946 MollyAshbyCover

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]]> Meredith https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/11/meredith/ Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:14:16 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7916 MeredithSmith-131020-780
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]]> Mary and Sean https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/10/mary-and-sean/ Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:51:40 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7875 I wanted to try some of the new lighting technique ideas I picked up from Gregory Heisler the other day. Thought this shoot of Mary and Sean.

Feathered, socked, beauty dish plus a ring flash for fill. Good stuff.

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]]> Seth Godin https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/08/seth-godin/ Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:16:39 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7720 I had the great opportunity to take portraits of author/entrepreneur/public speaker Seth Godin earlier today. He was the best kind of subject to have: photogenic AND accommodating. It’s a great combination.

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]]> Fuji Instant 4×5 One Shot – Gifford https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/07/fuji-instant-4x5-one-shot-gifford/ Mon, 22 Jul 2013 01:40:07 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7648 Click to Expand.
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]]> Bert’s 3rd Birthday Guests https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/07/berts-3rd-birthday-guests/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:02:06 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7629 Bert-3rd-Birthday-Guests

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]]> Courtney https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/06/courtney/ Tue, 25 Jun 2013 04:48:11 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7542 CourtneyBoulton-276-Edit
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]]> Your Pictures and How Magazines Use Them https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/06/magazinesusephotos/ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:59:47 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7478 I had the opportunity a couple months ago to shoot Jane Sherburne and Louis Briskman, both super fancy corporate lawyers for a NYSE Board Members Magazine. Here is how they were used as well as the original final images. Interesting, right?

For lighting geeks out there. Both were single light (speedlight in a 16″ foldable softbox) plus ambient. So one backpack for everything including the camera.

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]]> Cait’s Birthday Average https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/06/caits-birthday-average/ Mon, 03 Jun 2013 01:47:46 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7455 I went to my friend Cait’s birthday party today, and she asked me to take a picture of everyone. So I took it literally. I took a portrait of each person and then averaged them together in post. Here’s the result.

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]]> Everett Cox Wannabe Pro Wrestler https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/05/everett-cox-wannabe-pro-wrestler/ Sun, 05 May 2013 23:26:20 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7359 With the new Canon 40mm Pancake. Click to Zoom.

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]]> Fuji 4×5 One Shot – Tom https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/05/fuji-4x5-one-shot-tom/ Thu, 02 May 2013 15:27:38 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7353 TomHara_Fuji_4x5

]]> Tom Hara https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/05/tom-hara/ Wed, 01 May 2013 18:22:47 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7331 Click to expand.

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]]> Fuji 4×5 One Shot – Dave, Eva, Rob https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/03/fuji-4x5-one-shot-dave-eva-rob/ Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:48:26 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7252 One shots of tonight’s dinner guests.

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]]> Becca in the Studio https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/03/becca-in-the-studio/ Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:01:43 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7241 An old subject from 365 Portraits came over last week to take some gussied up studio pictures.
Quite a different look from the last shoot.

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]]> Fuji Instant 4×5 One Shot – Becca https://ontakingpictures.com/2013/03/fuji-instant-4x5-one-shot-becca/ Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:28:23 +0000 http://www.ontakingpictures.com/?p=7229 BeccaBrown_Fuji4x5bw

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