Suited and booted ready to race... - Saxperience

Ryan^p · 9th February 2010, 21:04

Did a shoot at the weekend for a few things relating to a mag, car shots etc.. but also needed some stuff of the guys in their new suits.

Location was erm... their barn, not much room for me to put the lighting anywhere, but ran 1 ranger head with octabox for the left, then lower power another ranger with wide reflector on the right + 580 on full whack behind them resting on a chair to try and reduce some epicly bad shadows we had haha!

Done some more processing on this than I usually would, wasnt really happy with the rushed effort, it didnt have the impact that they wanted and needed a bit of tidying. Using LR and cs3.

Original photo

And after the tweeks/tidy..

Now just need to get some better/bigger spaces to really test out the lights.

SNewham · 9th February 2010, 21:13

Heh looks nice mate, good work

Scott

Ryan^p · 9th February 2010, 21:14

crikey scott! not seen you about for ages!

Hope all is well. Still at uni near farringdon?

Viper · 9th February 2010, 21:15

whites look pretty blown to me?

Also might look better if you got them to look at each other, or at least something, they both look pretty blank

Still better than what I could produce though

SNewham · 9th February 2010, 21:15

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Originally Posted by Ryan

crikey scott! not seen you about for ages!

Hope all is well. Still at uni near farringdon?

Came back yesterday mate

Naw I'm in Elephant and Castle now. Trying to soldier through my degree lol.

Still have the saxo but it isn't in the best of shape now.

Scott

barrett^p · 9th February 2010, 21:21

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Originally Posted by snewham

Heh looks nice mate, good work

Scott

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Originally Posted by snewham

Came back yesterday mate

Naw I'm in Elephant and Castle now. Trying to soldier through my degree lol.

Still have the saxo but it isn't in the best of shape now.

Scott

wondered where you had gone!

Graeme^p · 9th February 2010, 21:22

pretty good pics but the white is far to in your face, or is that the point in the pic?

Ryan^p · 9th February 2010, 21:32

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Originally Posted by snewham

Came back yesterday mate

Naw I'm in Elephant and Castle now. Trying to soldier through my degree lol.

Still have the saxo but it isn't in the best of shape now.

Scott

lol im down elephant every friday/sat... lovely area

Ryan^p · 9th February 2010, 21:34

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Originally Posted by Viper

whites look pretty blown to me?

Also might look better if you got them to look at each other, or at least something, they both look pretty blank

Still better than what I could produce though

Its blown out on one persons leg, bit annoying but was done in a rush. The whole pic with everything hammered white is as it was wanted not blown out its just been cloned, it can either be used like that or cut out easily for use. They chose the look as they didnt want to look gay

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Originally Posted by Graeme

pretty good pics but the white is far to in your face, or is that the point in the pic?

See above

Viper · 9th February 2010, 21:35

ahh ok, fair enough

Personally, Im not keen on the amount of different lighting on the first one, i.e how it is lighter in the middle, but i suppose thats just my preference

Ryan^p · 9th February 2010, 21:40

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Originally Posted by Viper

ahh ok, fair enough

Personally, Im not keen on the amount of different lighting on the first one, i.e how it is lighter in the middle, but i suppose thats just my preference

Hence why i edited it or did you not read that lol

580 was quickly chucked in to try and remove the shadows that we had, needed to be better placed tbh and slightly lower than full whack lol

One from the bin to show you what I mean
Shadows - horrific.

Jungle_Jim^m · 10th February 2010, 00:05

just did this quickly but what about trying something like this, a bit computer game style / touring car intro graphic, might be a bit ott or something they will like

Ryan^p · 10th February 2010, 00:12

not a fan tbh.

Although appreciate the effort of thinking outside the box man.

Ill wait and see if it gets used and if their reprographics team decide to have a fondle (oo er)....

James you need to come on a day f'in about with gear, im trying to get sayer when hes free, got plenty of gear between us all to just go mad for a day for the sheer hell of it. You up for it?

Jungle_Jim^m · 10th February 2010, 00:22

yeah mate sounds good lol how many wireless flash guns of different sorts do we have between us lol im thinking something random like a 5 light setup car shoot lol

Ryan^p · 10th February 2010, 00:30

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Originally Posted by Jungle_Jim

yeah mate sounds good lol how many wireless flash guns of different sorts do we have between us lol im thinking something random like a 5 light setup car shoot lol

Wouldnt be easy to synch, I can go to 3, as my trigger set I have 2 for my rangers and 1 universal one, although i guess we could put my 580 in master and the rest in slave mode but then thats weather dependant

I said to sayer be fun to just dick about with gear when its not for a client and so not under a what they want type thing.

Can just smash in loads of flash in daylight for atmospheric crap jumping over walls etc...

Jungle_Jim^m · 10th February 2010, 00:39

sounds good mate, if we can team up a day when there is some track action on too then we can do flash stuff in the morning and brands hatch in the afternoon - they do good sausage baguettes lol and would like to test out some panning stuff on the 7d

all the events on the calendar here are free of charge ( you have to view the car / bike calendar separately

)

http://www.clubmsv.co.uk/

ps my car looks rubbish atm lol standard front bumper is back on whilst i repaint the 182 one, 182 exhaust is off, have a 172 bumper primered in the garage, just need to order paint

Ryan^p · 10th February 2010, 00:41

er would be tough tbh, for a start id not want to leave all my lighting in the car at brands. its worth to much lol!

Grub = allways go to one of the local pubs, i tend to go to a couple in the midday break cheaper and better food.

I might be up there soon though, can let you know if I am, either that or a shoot around guildford way as iirc thats not to far from reading.

Jungle_Jim^m · 10th February 2010, 00:48

you only live 15 mins from brand hatch drop your gear off at your house

tbh those club days are pretty quiet in terms of people. but yeah would be cool to catch up sometime wherever it is. maybe also do something crazy like a late night / early morning london drive - canary wharf / south bank ? saw some guys on cliosport did it - kind of tunnel run style, might be fun

Ryan^p · 10th February 2010, 00:54

can do, not really digging the london thing. To many people do it, heck ive done it and it bored the crap out of me in reality...

Just want to fuck about with loads of lighting related stuff tbh. I need another body + 24-70 in my life atm though!

Jungle_Jim^m · 10th February 2010, 01:05

yeah i guess its a bit different when you have lambos etc all around you, 2 clios and a saxo isnt really the same league lol, yeah is expensive this photography thing, i still need a battery grip for the 7d, spare batteries for it an 8GB CF card for shooting video. Then i could do with getting a new pc as this one cant hack it especially trying to edit 1080p video. then also want to sort out my rig properly - go with sayers setup so need two avenger suction mounts, some superclamps and a magic arm