Vivik Skyline ~ GT-R @ Warp Speed

Vivik Skyline ~ GT-R @ Warp Speed, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Vivik Skyline ~ GT-R @ Warp Speed

my vision of a sports car with a proud owner like Vivek is like this:

Color and Lighting and the car in motion - going Warp Speed.

Meet Vivek.. A Purdue Grad, A Pharmacist, and a Military Captain.

Vivek will be doing a 1 year tour of duty in Iraq, starting 2 weeks from now.

his father had asked me do a photo shoot of him and his car..
when i first meet Vivek 2 weeks ago, i thought father bought the car for him, but it turns out Vivek earned this by him self..

it totally makes me smile that if you work hard enough, you can meet all your goals.. congrats to him to make it out of a difficult program at Purdue.. and to serve the USA in the armed forces..

it is fitting i did the SKYLINE shot on a SKYLINE top of the parking garage..

The Legendary Nissan Skyline has quite the fan far in Japan, but few know about this car here in north america..

i was lucky enough to drive this amazing piece of engineering at the end of the night

quick specs...

0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds.. and if your a bad drive, then maybe 3.5 seconds.. lol..

some 450 LB torque
some 500 stock HP

a total of 5 lights were used for this shot

1 back lighting was AB1600 with 60 inch softlighter with an orange gel, camera left for the orange glowing look

2 key lighting on Vivek was Elinchrom Quadra with deep octa about 5 feet away held by dad @ 3.0 power boomed downwards

3-4 also had 2 speed lights on the rims held by my japanese Co Workers at Subaru Research Design, (Koga and Kubo - San) they tagged along to see the Car of course.

5 AB1600 with red gel with shoot thru to light up camera right @ full power

alien bee triggered by triggered by the New Cactus V5's

elinchrom triggered by the sky port

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperturef/4.5
Focal Length20 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 26 Feb 11, 10.51AM PST.

Jess Model ~ Silent Fall

Jess Model ~ Silent Fall, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Jess Model ~ Silent Fall

trying my hand at some art.. hopefully it works..

this is a photo manipulation (really starting to like doing stuff like this for personal work)

lighting on Jess was 2 lights..

had 2 AB1600's one with 64PLM and hair light was the 22 Beauty dish with grid both on boom arms.

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperturef/9.0
Focal Length85 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 22 Feb 11, 7.11PM PST.

Vivek ~ The Nissan Skyline GTR part2 flickr

Vivek ~ The Nissan Skyline GTR part2 flickr, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Vivek ~ The Nissan Skyline GTR part2 flickr

Vivek ~ The Nissan Skyline GTR

Meet Vivek.. A Purdue Grad, A Pharmacist, and a Military Captain.

Vivek will be doing a 1 year tour of duty in Iraq, starting 2 weeks from now.

his father had asked me do a photo shoot of him and his car..
when i first meet Vivek 2 weeks ago, i thought father bought the car for him, but it turns out Vivek earned this by him self..

it totally makes me smile that if you work hard enough, you can meet all your goals.. congrats to him to make it out of a difficult program at Purdue.. and to serve the USA in the armed forces..

it is fitting i did the SKYLINE shot on a SKYLINE top of the parking garage..

The Legendary Nissan Skyline has quite the fan far in Japan, but few know about this car here in north america..

i was lucky enough to drive this amazing piece of engineering at the end of the night

quick specs...

0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds.. and if your a bad drive, then maybe 3.5 seconds.. lol..

some 450 LB torque
some 500 stock HP

it was a tricky shoot.. windy and cold.. and the sky was changing so fast i just got what i could and i wanted to get more lights out of my outback, but i couldn't , time was of essence.. so instead of messing around and getting all the lights, i settled with a 2 light set up..

back lighting was AB1600 bare at 1/2 power about 10 feet out
key lighting on Vivek was Elinchrom Quadra with deep octa about 5 feet away held by dad @ 3.0 power

alien bee triggered by triggered by the New Cactus V5's

elinchrom triggered by the sky port

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperturef/8.0
Focal Length20 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 24 Feb 11, 8.58PM PST.

Vavick ~ The Nissan Skyline GTR

Vavick ~ The Nissan Skyline GTR, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Vavick ~ The Nissan Skyline GTR

Meet Vavick.. A Purdue Grad, A Pharmacist, and a military Captain.

Vavick will be doing a 1 year tour of duty in Iraq, starting 2 weeks from now.

his father had asked i do a photo shoot of him and his car..
when i first meet Vavick 2 weeks ago, i thought father bought the car for him, but it turns out Vavick earned this by him self.. it totally makes me smile that if you work hard enough, you can meet all your goals.. congrats to him to make it out of a difficult program at Purdue..

it is fitting i did the skyline shot on a skyline top of the parking garage..

The Legendary Nissan Skyline has quite the fan far in Japan, but few know about this car here in north america..

i was lucky enough to drive this amazing piece of engineering..

quick specs...

0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds.. and if your a bad drive, then maybe 3/5 seconds.. lol..

some 450 LB torque
some 500 stock HP

it was a tricky shoot.. windy and cold.. and the sky was changing so fast i just got what i could and i wanted to get more lights out of my outback, but i couldn't , time was of essence.. so instead of messing around and getting all the lights, i settled with a 2 light set up..

back lighting was AB1600 bare at 1/2 power about 10 feet out
key lighting on Vavick was Elinchrom Quadra with deep octa about 5 feet away held by dad @ 3.0 power

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 23 Feb 11, 7.58PM PST.

Madeline Senior ~ The Orange Hat

Madeline Senior ~ The Orange Hat, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Madeline Senior ~ The Orange Hat

simple natural light for beautiful Madeline's senior portfolio

snowy ground makes for perfect lighting since it reflects light back upwards

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperturef/2.2
Focal Length85 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 22 Feb 11, 4.39AM PST.

Laurie and Matt ~ Romance in the Air

Laurie and Matt ~ Romance in the Air, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Laurie and Matt ~ Romance in the Air

Getting ready to start off the Engagements with all the couples to be wedded this coming year.. about 16 weddings on the book this year..

so i was going thru my couples study and looking for good poses to add to my phone and found this one i haven't posted and totally love..

editing was:

1. desaturated this file to sepia
2. colorized the image to my likings
3. added the rain textures from another project - Kate Sitting in the Rain , because i have the layers already made, i can just drag and drop into this project and it was like 2 mins of work total..

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 19 Feb 11, 10.17AM PST.

Whitney and Nate ~ Summer Loving

Whitney and Nate ~ Summer Loving, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Whitney and Nate ~ Summer Loving

one of my fav's from whitney's wedding from this summer.

i am using this winter to study processing

with this one i did this:

1. started out with black and white or even sepia
2. over lay 2 gradient colors of my choice

pretty simple but it seems to be a trend in fashion photography right now to do these over lays on black and whites..

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 17 Feb 11, 7.08PM PST.

Madeline Senior ~ The Yoga Senior flickr

Madeline Senior ~ The Yoga Senior flickr, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Madeline Senior ~ The Yoga Senior flickr

Working with Madeline on her senior photos..

With her artistic creativity we were able to fashion something she and her family will cherish..

Madeline is in a classic Yoga Pose for her Yoga Art..

this turned out kinda like a windows desktop or magazine quality.. i am very happy with this one..

believe it or not.. it was super sunny and i had to put both of my AB1600's on one side and balance out the sun to her other side..

i was out to like F9-F11, ISO 50 i think..

so we showered her with 1200 some watts of power to get this shot..

makes me want a Elinchrom Ranger Rx haha..

i had both units with shoot thru umbrellas camera right and i had to clone out the edge of one of them so you know it was like 5-6 feet away from Maddy..

Both were full power

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperturef/9.0
Focal Length85 mm
ISO Speed50
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire
Image Width3744
Image Height5616

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 15 Feb 11, 7.08PM PST.

Kathryn Model ~ The SnowBoarder

Kathryn Model ~ The SnowBoarder , originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Kathryn Model ~ The SnowBoarder

haven't had much time this winter for personal work, so recently i had to do a project shot.

Kathryn, Mother and i were talking about her wedding photos, so after we talked about a fun project.

it started out as a sledding photo, but as it turned out we picked a snowboard shot..

lighting was 3 lights

1. Speed light 580EXII triggered by the New Cactus V5's Camera Left 1/4 power
2. Speed light 580EXII triggered by the New Cactus V5's Camera Right 1/2 power
3. AB1600 with 60 inch Softlighter triggered by the new Cactus V5's 1/2 power about 5 feet camera left from Kathryn

the weather was about 19 F outside, so Kathryn was really a trooper with this shoot..

her mother and father also was helping out.. it takes a good team to get results like this. Coat holding, flashlight holder, etc.

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 12 Feb 11, 10.23PM PST.

Madeline Senior ~ The Red Bench

Madeline Senior ~ The Red Bench, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Madeline Senior ~ The Red Bench

working in natural light out in the snow with madeline, actually natural light in the snowy ground makes for perfect lighting..

it reflects from bottom side up too.. so there is very little shadows..

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperturef/2.2
Focal Length85 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 10 Feb 11, 4.39AM PST.

Skylar Model ~ Photoshop Practice

Skylar Model ~ Photoshop Practice, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Skylar Model ~ Photoshop Practice

every once and while i try to re do a photo to see what i can improve on the post processing aspects.

i have always stated you need 2 things to make a good photo

1. a good file with good lighting in camera
2. good photoshop or lightroom skills.. (post processing)

this day and age of digital photography you will find it is probably more about post work, that is unfortunate, but probably true..

so what i did tonight was to visit a good file and see what i can do..

you can find great actions on the net or light room presets on the net
and start from there, try to reverse engineer it, and from there put it into photo shop and see if you can some what recreate it on photo shop too.. this practice alone will make you appreciate lightroom, but also lets you know what controls you have from each tool and better you over all as a digital photographer.

working on dual toning

lighting was deep oct boombed camera right by mother @ 6 feet away

@ .9 on elinchrom scale

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperturef/3.2
Focal Length85 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 7 Feb 11, 7.41PM PST.

Aurielle Model ~ Bride

Aurielle Model ~ Bride, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Aurielle Model ~ Bride

a continuation of the Bridal shoot

camera Right was the 60 inch softlighter with AB1600

camera Left was the 22 inch beauty dish with AB1600 with grid

backdrop was fabric 54 inches by 108 inches purchased from hobby lobby for around 60 dollars.

during the shoot i moved the key and rim lighting around depending on the shot we wanted but they always were in the cross fire arrangement

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperturef/8.0
Focal Length35 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire
Image Width5616
Image Height3744

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 8 Feb 11, 5.07AM PST.

Madeline Senior ~ The Furry Hat

Madeline Senior ~ The Furry Hat, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Madeline Senior ~ The Furry Hat

working in natural light out in the snow with madeline, actually natural light in the snowy ground makes for perfect lighting..

it reflects from bottom side up too.. so there is very little shadows..

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperturef/2.2
Focal Length85 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 8 Feb 11, 7.33PM PST.

Katherine and Jimmy ~ Snow Romance

Katherine and Jimmy ~ Snow Romance, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Katherine and Jimmy ~ Snow Romance

Meet Katherine and Jimmy.. one of my summer wedding couple... see how they are connected !

natural light, and selective coloring worked for me for this shot


CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperturef/2.2
Focal Length85 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire
Image Width5616
Image Height3744

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 7 Feb 11, 4.42AM PST.

Makenie Newborn ~ The Purple Wallpaper

Makenie Newborn ~ The Purple Wallpaper, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Makenie Newborn ~ The Purple Wallpaper

Continuation of Mackenzie's shoot

Meet Makenzie, born a premy so you can image how small and precious she is..
Parents and Grandparents are super proud..

lighting was one light from camera left
Elinchrom with Deep Oct at about 1.3 power

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperturef/3.2
Focal Length85 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 4 Feb 11, 7.04PM PST.

Kim Model ~ The Royal Bride 2

Kim Model ~ The Royal Bride 2, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Kim Model ~ The Royal Bride 2

Maggie Sottero - The Rhianna Royale

Romantic in every way, Rhianna Royale is a one-piece, slim A-line gown featuring elaborate floral motifs decorating an exquisite tulle lace overlay. The three-dimensional floral effect creates a stunning neckline and accents the skirt of the gown. The back features our signature corset closure. Matching hairpiece is also available.

camera Right was the 60 inch softlighter with AB1600

camera Left was the 22 inch beauty dish with AB1600 with grid

backdrop was fabric 54 inches by 108 inches purchased from hobby lobby for around 60 dollars.

during the shoot i moved the key and rim lighting around depending on the shot we wanted but they always were in the cross fire arrangement


CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperturef/8.0
Focal Length35 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire
Image Width5616
Image Height3744

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 5 Feb 11, 10.45AM PST.

Nina Senior ~ The Fields 2

Nina Senior ~ The Fields 2, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Nina Senior ~ The Fields 2

winter snow storms are making me really missing the spring or fall.. so i am looking back to the fall and posting some fall shots..

lighting was 1 AB1600 with 64 PLM @ 1/3 power camera right about 8 feet away


CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperturef/3.2
Focal Length24 mm
ISO Speed640
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire
Image Width5616
Image Height3744

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 5 Feb 11, 7.31PM PST.

Kim and Aurielle ~ The Vintage Brides

Kim and Aurielle ~ The Vintage Brides, originally uploaded by ~Phamster~.

Kim and Aurielle ~ The Vintage Brides

continuations of the bridal shoot series

MUA Team:

Cassanda Alsop
Megan Ketterer
Katie Looper

Lighting was 2 Alien Bee's AB1600

Key lighting was about 7 feet away from Kim and Aurielle @ 1/2 power with 60 inch softlighter
Rim lighting was about 5 feet away from Kim and Aurielle camera right with a gridded beauty dish

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperturef/8.0
Focal Length85 mm
ISO Speed100
Exposure Bias0 EV
FlashOff, Did not fire
Image Width3669
Image Height5503

Uploaded by ~Phamster~ on 1 Feb 11, 4.43AM PST.