My first serious photo session.

Model: Eva
Makeup: Anna

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The second light festival Staro Rīga will took place from November 14 to 18, 2009. All around the city people could see unique objects of the art of light created with the help of the Rīga City Council, business people and the private initiative.

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After my previous entries: “Portrait setup examples” and “Basic portrait lighting diagrams” I decided to continue and today I want to share some basic portrait lighting setups with you. I found them pretty useful and you won’t need a lot of studio equipment, just some basic strobist stuff.

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Basics of Portrait Lighting

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Take a look at this amazing video, all steps of creating a macworld magazine cover (except printing). First the photographers do their job by setting up light and using a full frame camera to capture 2 iPhones 3Gs. After that the image goes to retouching, where the retouching man adds the display images. Then the retouched image goes to the cover designer, who makes the finale magazine cover in Adobe InDesign. And after all that you can see the final printed magazine.

Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo.

Today I want to share thees portrait lighting diagrams with you folks ! I think they will come in handy for someone. I made those from a book that is called “The book of light”, I didn’t found any diagrams in this book that’s why I made them from the description under every photo. Have fun !

Portrait example 01

I bought this one on a flea market for a couple of bucks. The quality is almost perfect for the 60 years old camera. I’m a big fan of retro stuff. Now I’m looking forward to make some old school retro pin up photos.

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Last week I attended a seminar about “One Light Photography”. It was a 6 hour long lecture and practice. The professional photographer showed us how to make cool high-class photos using only 1 light and the available lighting. It really inspired me and today I decided to try some techniques I learned on the seminar, so let’s see the results.

One Light First Experience 1

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Another strobist practice with my cat Chopstick. I had some difficulties shooting him cause he always moving and doing some ridiculous things But what do you want it’s a cat, he suppose to do silly things.

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Today I want to share some basic portrait setups. These setups don’t require expensive equipment or fancy techniques. All you need is a softbox or umbrella, fill cards, and some strobes.

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