Friday, January 2, 2009

Pool Shoot


Nick vs Balls
Originally uploaded by The Eye of Brad
Over New Years I had the chance to shoot at my brother-in-laws house. He has this fantastic red pool table in the lounge that I thought would look great in some shots. It was a very quick setup start to finish it was done during half time of the USC / Penn State Game. It was also when Elijah was taking a nap so it worked out well. Nick is going to be the father of a newborn in a few months and I wanted to get a nice before picture of the lounge while it still had that bachelor flare to it. If I had more time and had looked more carefully at the images I shot I would have changed a bunch of things but I got what I got and I know for next time.

Lighting:
key: 430ex @ 1/4 with lumiquest sb3, camera right, cactus v2 trigger
ball light: sb900 @ 1/4 with 8" honl snoot camera left, optical trigger
wall back light: 285hv @ 1/16 with honl bounce card and red gel, optical trigger

Nick's Red Pool Table

My cactus triggers where there usual flakey selves and I got a few shots missing my key, I noticed afterwords that I really liked that look. What I should have done is pulled the SB3 off the key and put a honl 1/8" grid spot on it and moved it to the left of the pool table just to light his face with some fall off to the body and arm. It would have been a great dynamic photo. I will have to take that shot someday if I get a chance.
Posted by Brad Herman at 5:04 PM
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1 comment:

  1. AmandaJJanuary 2, 2009 at 6:20 PM

    They look great Brad! I love the overall red tint to the second photo. It makes it feel more like he's in a lounge club rather than a spare room of the house. I agree though that it would be nice to have more light on his face. Or maybe lower the angle to really focus on the pool balls more since they are the only element with a color other than red.

    Great idea about the site! I'll be back often!

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