A fun assignment – I liked that there were no restrictions, only criteria. The extreme bounce was tough finding somewhere cool to shoot with a structure over 30’ away, but I digress. The family portraits I did the other day went fantastically, and this adorable child made for a better model than I ever could. I used the wide panel most of the time to catch my umbrella as much as possible since it was leaning on my bag that I would set up wherever I needed the umbrella (I really need an umbrella stand…), but otherwise I think the lighting was fantastic.
The multi-exposure was challenging, I saw it differently in my head so I eventually just had to pick a frame and run with it. The lighting was uneven in the alley that we chose – a street lamp behind me kept dying, then coming back on at various lumens and was impossible to predict. Being that I was messing with white balance, this unnecessarily complicated things. Hind sight – should’ve just found another alley.
The extreme bounce was interesting. I kept having to remind myself what I was going for and adjusting my angles to find something further away to bounce off of. I would love to try this with some sort of sculpture to play with shadows sometime.
This assignment wasn’t hard by any stretch of the imagination, just different from what I’m used to.
Drew Travis Photography 