Jonathan Sippel
9/366 – Winter Blossoms
Sti..Stii..Still shivering from tonight’s shoot. It’s cold outside!
I originally had one amazing idea that I was rushing to shoot before the sun went down, but I’m not happy with the pictures I took in the half hour I had to shoot it, so I’ll re-do it another day. After the sun went down, I went to Balzac’s to grab a coffee. I sat around for a while, and sketched out more ideas for other days, but still couldn’t come up with anything for tonight. I left out the backdoor, intending to location scout when I ran in to Ian and Katelyn, just heading in for a coffee of their own. I spontaneously asked them if they wanted to do a quick shoot, and they were all for it!
While at Balzac’s earlier I was thinking about projecting shadows on to walls with flash and long exposures, and so we went with this idea at Stratford’s most photogenic and romantic (not really) old building, “The Cooper Site”.
I set my camera on my tripod, and shot at a 3.2 second exposure with a 10 second timer. I lit Ian and Katelyn with my Canon 580 EX Speedlite and a pinkish/purple gel by pressing the ‘Pilot’ button manually when I heard the shutter open. I was in the shot originally, so I Photoshopped myself out, and then corrected the verticals of the building.
Thanks again to Ian and Katelyn for being so easygoing and photogenic!
9/366 – Winter Blossoms
Sti..Stii..Still shivering from tonight’s shoot. It’s cold outside!
I originally had one amazing idea that I was rushing to shoot before the sun went down, but I’m not happy with the pictures I took in the half hour I had to shoot it, so I’ll re-do it another day. After the sun went down, I went to Balzac’s to grab a coffee. I sat around for a while, and sketched out more ideas for other days, but still couldn’t come up with anything for tonight. I left out the backdoor, intending to location scout when I ran in to Ian and Katelyn, just heading in for a coffee of their own. I spontaneously asked them if they wanted to do a quick shoot, and they were all for it!
While at Balzac’s earlier I was thinking about projecting shadows on to walls with flash and long exposures, and so we went with this idea at Stratford’s most photogenic and romantic (not really) old building, “The Cooper Site”.
I set my camera on my tripod, and shot at a 3.2 second exposure with a 10 second timer. I lit Ian and Katelyn with my Canon 580 EX Speedlite and a pinkish/purple gel by pressing the ‘Pilot’ button manually when I heard the shutter open. I was in the shot originally, so I Photoshopped myself out, and then corrected the verticals of the building.
Thanks again to Ian and Katelyn for being so easygoing and photogenic!