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Met up with the guys from Monsters tonight real quick before their show to take a few shots. I was super stoked to shoot them as I'm a big fan of their music. They ended up getting to the venue a little late so I had about 10 minutes to shoot them. First time shooting a band like this right before a show; I'm pretty happy with the results. Got a total of 30 shots off I think haha. Posing was definitely my hardest part, I'm not used to posing that many people. These were definitely some of the nicest dudes I've ever met. Hopefully next time they roll through we'll be able to kick it more.
5d mk ii
50mm 1.4
ab800 into 47" octabox camera right
fired with pocketwizards
vagabond II
Phottix Octabox with Flashpoint xPlorer 600 at 1/4 or 1/2 power in HSS slightly camera left, F 2.8, ISO 100, 1/1000
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so a few weeks ago i hit up Conducting From The Grave about some promos because they didnt have any ones with the new vocalist and with a new record i nthe process of being on the way its dire for the release to have atleast one group shot done before, we met up 4hrs before the show and hung out we waited til the sun was starting to go down to get less harsh light on faces and such so we shot at 7:30 til about 7:40 very short shoot but got some great stuff from it.
i wanted some different tones and desaturates in these i needed to switch it up and do some thing a lil different so i did a lot curves and other things to get tones.
5d mrk ii
50mm f1.4
Strobist
-ab1600 thru octabox high and left weighted down by vagabond 2
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A few weeks ago in March 2025, I spent a day in the most secure vault at the library of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy) to photograph some rare books that are badly in need of a restoration. The Fondation du Patrimoine, for which I work as a pro bono photographer, is expected to finance the restoration through a fundraising campaign that will be launched later this year (2025).
These are some of the photos I took during that session.
In order to insure color accuracy and consistency, I lit the session only with flash, having been assured by the librarians that the books were in no danger from that sort of lighting, since this was a one-off thing and as long as minimal output was used. Therefore, i used very large softboxes in order to soften the light as much as possible. For those of you who may be interested, all the technical information is provided below, as this is necessary to post the photos in the so-called “strobist” groups on Flickr, i.e., groups focusing on using off-camera flash.
The black, non-reflective cloth I used as background is Musou Kiwami.
Strobist and technical info: one Godox AD600 Pro II monolight on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera right, 1.5 meters from subject and 1.5 meters above it, firing at 1/64 power through a Phottix Pro 150–cm Raja octabox with double diffuser; and another AD600 Pro II studio strobe on a Profoto light stand in a symmetrical position to camera left, firing at 1/64 power through a Godox 120–cm S120W softbox with double diffuser.
Strobes set and triggered via Godox X Pro II radio controller on the camera’s hot shoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Gitzo Systematic Series 3 GT3543XLS tripod with Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head.
Nikon Z7 II camera body. Lenses: Nikon Z7 II camera body. Lenses: Nikkor Z 35mm, ƒ/1.8 S; Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S; Z 85mm, ƒ/1.8 S; Z MC 105mm, ƒ/2.8 macro; and Z 135mm, ƒ/1.8 S Plena. Camera triggered remotely via Pixel Oppilas RW–221 radio transmitter and receiver.
This badly damaged 1562 book is a unique collection of 42 controversial religious writings that were interdicted during the Wars of Religion. For several of those pieces, the copy in this volume is the only one that remains worldwide.
Makeup: Tabi w/ POSH
Strobist: AB800 w/47" Octabox at camera left, AB400 above subject to camera right.
So this is pretty much my first solid effort using green screen. I've done a few portraits with basic backgrounds, but this is the first multi-image composite I've done in the process. There are a few shortcuts I made that I now wish I hadn't. You may see them, you may not, but they are glaring at me. I still love the results, but this was definitely a learning process.
Thank gawd Stefanie and Menace are patient, and I hope they see this as rewarding to their hard work... Because I can't wait to do more. lol!
There are five different primary elements to this composite, if you're wondering.
Aprendiendo Low Key con Ferran
2 Godox sk400ii. Octabox de perfil derecho y Beauty dish de contra con un reflector detrás de la cámara.
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Learning Low Key with Ferran
2 Godox sk400ii. Octabox on the right side and a Beauty dish on the other. White reflector behind the camera.
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week 45 : A DAY IN THE LIFE OF..
That moment when you get caught up in the marketing hype and spend an extra 12 bucks to upgrade the families drinks at the theater.
Have a great weeked friends. May the force be with you
Strobist Info
AlienBee 800 1/4 power, camera right 48" Octabox,
AlienBee 800 1/16 power, camera left 24" Westcott Apollo
F11
ISO 100
SS 1/200 seconds
PocketWizard Plus III
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Adorama streaklight 360 on octAbox grided facing subject camera left. Alien bee b800 for background on a grid.
Jinbei DC-1200 in a gridded Lencarta Profold 120cm octabox high and in front of model
Canon 5d Mark III
Canon 135mm f/2
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Met up with the guys from Monsters tonight real quick before their show to take a few shots. I was super stoked to shoot them as I'm a big fan of their music. They ended up getting to the venue a little late so I had about 10 minutes to shoot them. First time shooting a band like this right before a show; I'm pretty happy with the results. Posing was my hardest part; I'm not used to posing that many people. These were definitely some of the nicest dudes I've ever met. Hopefully next time they roll through we'll be able to kick it more.
5d mk ii
50mm 1.4
ab800 into 47" octabox camera right
fired with pocketwizards
vagabond II
This is my friend Tiffany. We've been planning on doing a shoot together for a while, but things never really worked out for one reason or another.
Anyway, last week she passed by the studio while I was taking a break from recording and we had an impromptu shoot. This is one of my favorites from that shoot.
Strobist: AB800 through octabox above camera
Triggers: Elinchrom Skyports
Model: Krystal Johns
Makeup: Alice Bizzare
Lighting: Large octabox on Bowens studio light right of camera. Triggered with PT04.
Also not sure about this shot, opinions??
ab800 into 47" octabox camera left
fired with pocketwizards
vagabond II
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Max and Zoey sort of cooperating for a portrait in Aunt Lolo's backyard.
strobist: 1 AB800 in a medium octabox camera left at about 1/2 power, triggered with RF603II's.
Laguna Beach Engagement session
Alien Bees 800 with Large Octabox Camera Right, Large silver reflector on stand camera left. Shot in back street behind a building in Laguna Beach ca.
Used Cyber Sync Trigger
Nikon D300S
18-200 Nikon lens
Known these guys forever. Great friends.
Shot this one at the Coral Springs Corporate Park. Could hardly see anything and there were weird bugs everywhere. First night shot with a band! Didn't come out to bad though! Check these guys out! South FL hardcore. www.myspace.com/xinmanx
Strobist:
AB800 Through octabox high in font of group
AB800's bare both sides high
Canon 5D
Canon 17-40mm L
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Sunset Engagement session in Cape Breton.
Lighting info:
Godox AD600BM with a Fotodiox Pro 5ft Octabox
Shot with Nikon D300s, Nikkor 50mm f1.4/G, 37" Paul C. Buff Octabox with Alienbee B800 on 1/2 power, above and camera right, triggered with cybersyncs.
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This is a photo of Tori when Les and I were trying some different ideas using our 50mm and 85mm lenses. This image was taken using my 85mm macro lens. Using my new Tablet, I did skin softening, eye brightening, added eyelashes and liner, put a little powder, blush & lipstick on Tori. I then blended her onto a different background.
Strobist Info:
48" octabox camera left @ 45 degrees, YN560 flash @ 1/4 power.
A few weeks ago in March 2025, I spent a day in the most secure vault at the library of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy) to photograph some rare books that are badly in need of a restoration. The Fondation du Patrimoine, for which I work as a pro bono photographer, is expected to finance the restoration through a fundraising campaign that will be launched later this year (2025).
These are some of the photos I took during that session.
In order to insure color accuracy and consistency, I lit the session only with flash, having been assured by the librarians that the books were in no danger from that sort of lighting, since this was a one-off thing and as long as minimal output was used. Therefore, i used very large softboxes in order to soften the light as much as possible. For those of you who may be interested, all the technical information is provided below, as this is necessary to post the photos in the so-called “strobist” groups on Flickr, i.e., groups focusing on using off-camera flash.
The black, non-reflective cloth I used as background is Musou Kiwami.
Strobist and technical info: one Godox AD600 Pro II monolight on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera right, 1.5 meters from subject and 1.5 meters above it, firing at 1/64 power through a Phottix Pro 150–cm Raja octabox with double diffuser; and another AD600 Pro II studio strobe on a Profoto light stand in a symmetrical position to camera left, firing at 1/64 power through a Godox 120–cm S120W softbox with double diffuser.
Strobes set and triggered via Godox X Pro II radio controller on the camera’s hot shoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Gitzo Systematic Series 3 GT3543XLS tripod with Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head.
Nikon Z7 II camera body. Lenses: Nikon Z7 II camera body. Lenses: Nikkor Z 35mm, ƒ/1.8 S; Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S; Z 85mm, ƒ/1.8 S; Z MC 105mm, ƒ/2.8 macro; and Z 135mm, ƒ/1.8 S Plena. Camera triggered remotely via Pixel Oppilas RW–221 radio transmitter and receiver.
Having been printed in 1497, this copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy can be given the prestigious qualification of incunabulum, but only just: only book printed before the end of the year 1500 deserve to be called that.
The word incunabulum is Latin and refers to a cradle or baby cloth diapers, because printing was in its infancy back then, having been invented, as everyone knows, by Gutenberg in 1453.
As you can see, the book is not written in Latin because it is what we would call today a novel, a work of fiction, which Dante wanted to be accessible not only to the élite, but to as wide an audience as possible. It is therefore written in the Florentine dialect, which is a subset of the common tongue used in Tuscany, and not very far from modern-day Italian.
This copy is also remarkable by the number and quality of its color illustrations and its illuminated drop capitals.
...is the guy behind the camera most of the time. I've been on holidays this past week and was getting bored of playing video games today, so I decided to try a self-portrait!!! Playing around with the new 48 inch octabox again.
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| Nikon D700 | Nikkor 85mm 1.4D | f/6.3 | 1/200 sec | ISO-200 |
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A Girl And Some Tunes: The Girl Who Hunts The Dead
Trans Am "Black Matter"
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She's a young woman and she's a vampire hunter. Lately she heard those vampire monsters attacked a colony in wild territories. She decided to travel to this place to see if she can do something about it. But when she arrives, she realizes the worst may already have happened.
As she enters the building, she feels the air getting cold.
It seems that there's no sign of life left here.
She suddenly hears some noise, so she decides to search the place.
She finds nothing, but there's still a big room that she must check.
As soon as she arrives in this last room she feels an evil presence. A weird blue fire starts in the fireplace behind her...
Another episode in the "A Girl And Some Tunes" series. This one is inspired by the anime "Blood The Last Vampire" and the movie "Suckerpunch".
Stay tuned, there's more pics to come!
Model:
Lilith in the light
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Strobe info:
One Jinbei DC-600 through a 46' Octabox on the right of the subject at 2 meters high with an angle of 45°. Two 580EXII, one hidden in the fireplace with a blue gel, and one hidden behind the windows with a blue gel too. The three strobes were triggered with pocketwizards TT5.
[Now that our visit of the ruined priory church of Colchester is over, and before I resume uploading photos from our Christmas 2024 and New Year’s 2025 trip to England, let us take a break and come briefly back to France to document the successful completion of an impressive restoration work I was happy to be part of, photographically speaking.]
The Gates of Paradise, so dubbed by Michelangelo himself, are monumental bronze doors that give access into the Saint John baptistry, which stands in front of the Santa Maria del Fiore “duomo” cathedral in Florence, Italy. Those massive doors, 5.10 meters tall by 3.20 meters wide, are a masterpiece of Renaissance art sculpted mostly by Lorenzo Ghiberti around 1442. Further to the devastating flood of River Arno in 1966, the orignal doors were taken away and stored in the safety of a nearby museum, to be replaced on-site by copies.
A Wikipedia notice in French can be found here: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte_du_Paradis (doesn’t seem to exist in English).
In 1841, the City of Lyon, at the behest of a then-well known Lyonnais painter, Jean-Claude Bonnefond (1796–1860), ordered a casting of the portal to be made by the Museum of Fine Arts of Paris. The cast was installed in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, in the Palais Saint-Pierre (Saint Peter’s Palace), thus named because the building in which it is is what remains of the former abbey of Saint-Pierre-les-Nonnains, founded in the 9th century for Benedictine nuns.
In 1936, the cast was taken down, disassembled and subsequently broken down into more than one hundred pieces as its fragile self was not-so-carefully moved from one temporary storage place to another. Acquired by the Musée des Moulages (Museum of Casts) of Lyon, the fragments were stored there for several decades. When it was decided to restore and reassemble them, the Fondation du Patrimoine, one of the non-profit heritage organizations I work for as a pro bono photographer, was called upon to provide the 50,000-euro financing, and I was asked to take photos, first of the pre-restoration fragments in their storage area in 2023, then of the Gates re-assembled, restored and put back up in the museum hall, in the only location where the ceiling is high enough to accommodate them, in March 2025.
To document this project, I will upload some “before” photos, as well as, of course, some “after” ones. You will note that, around 1910, a patina was applied onto the cast as it was meant to reproduce as faithfully as possible, not the shiny, golden aspect of the brand new bronze, but the faded one the Gates exhibited at the beginning of the 20th century. It is of course this faded aspect that the restoration sought to retrieve —quite successfully so, I must say.
Strobist and technical info: I provide this information solely for the purpose of so–called “strobist” groups on Flickr (i.e., groups practicing off-camera flash lighting), where it is mandatory. Please feel free to ignore it if you are not interested or a member of such groups.
One Godox AD600 Pro II monolight on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera right, 2 meters from subject and 2.5 meters above ground (about midway through height of subject), firing at 1/2 ¼ power through a Phottix Pro 150–cm Raja octabox with double diffuser; and another AD600 Pro II studio strobe on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera left, 2 meters from subject and 2.5 meters above ground (about midway through height of subject), firing at 1/1 power through a Godox 120–cm S120W softbox with double diffuser.
Strobes set and triggered via Godox X Pro II radio controller on the camera’s hot shoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Manfrotto 161 MK2B geared tripod with Benro GD3–WH geared head and Innorel leveling base.
Nikon Z7 II camera body. Lenses: Nikkor 45mm, ƒ/2.8 D PC tilt-shift macro lens with FTZ II adapter, manual focus, for the photo of the entire Gates; Nikkor Z 100–400mm, ƒ/4.5–5.6 S lens for the closeups. Camera triggered remotely via Pixel Oppilas RW–221 radio transmitter and receiver.
An iPhone snapshot of the behind-the-scenes for the photoshoot of the restored Gates of Paradise in the main exhibition hall of the Musée des Moulages (Museum of Casts) in Lyon: the Nikon Z7 II is about 2.50 meters up in the air on top of the gigantic Manfrotto 161 geared tripod. Thus, it is level with the middle of the Gates; I only had to shift it maybe 2 millimeters up to align it perfectly.
I needed to position the camera far enough to include the entire cast of course, but also close enough that I wouldn’t see the little white lighting spots hanging from the ceiling. The correct focal length to use given those constraints was the 45mm tilt-shift lens. As I had not seen the cast in situ before, and only had vague memories from two years prior of the approximate location where I had been told it would be installed once reassembled, I brought all three tilt-shifts (19mm, 45 and 85), but also the 14-30mm wide-angle zoom, and of course the 100-400mm telephoto zoom lens that I used for all the closeups I will upload tomorrow and over the following few days.
I had to use the stepladder to get up there and focus the lens and set the flashes that you see high up on their stands on either side of the large cast. Otherwise, I triggered camera and flashes by radio so as to make sure that the camera wouldn’t be affected by any tremor whatsoever.
Lighting-wise, I had the museum kill all the lights on the Gates, leaving only the neutral indirect lighting in the ceiling. I set the exposure parameters so that the ambient light would not affect the photo at all (i.e., my first test photo without flash was completely black), thus making sure that the only light reaching the subject would come from my own strobes, to insure consistency of lighting and accuracy of color.
On the right is the little red Timber Ridge cart I use to transport all the gear in one go.
Shot with PIXAPRO Strip Softbox and PIXAPRO Octabox
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Getting a little more artsy with Dana...loved the props she brought!
B800 Camera left in Octabox at Dana
B800 camera left with blue gel at background
Fired with Pocket Wizards
Model: Elise Jane
Light: stripboxes L+R rear, large octa behind me for fill, beauty dish above camera on its left.
A few weeks ago in March 2025, I spent a day in the most secure vault at the library of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy) to photograph some rare books that are badly in need of a restoration. The Fondation du Patrimoine, for which I work as a pro bono photographer, is expected to finance the restoration through a fundraising campaign that will be launched later this year (2025).
These are some of the photos I took during that session.
In order to insure color accuracy and consistency, I lit the session only with flash, having been assured by the librarians that the books were in no danger from that sort of lighting, since this was a one-off thing and as long as minimal output was used. Therefore, i used very large softboxes in order to soften the light as much as possible. For those of you who may be interested, all the technical information is provided below, as this is necessary to post the photos in the so-called “strobist” groups on Flickr, i.e., groups focusing on using off-camera flash.
The black, non-reflective cloth I used as background is Musou Kiwami.
Strobist and technical info: one Godox AD600 Pro II monolight on a Profoto light stand in lateral position to camera right, 1.5 meters from subject and 1.5 meters above it, firing at 1/64 power through a Phottix Pro 150–cm Raja octabox with double diffuser; and another AD600 Pro II studio strobe on a Profoto light stand in a symmetrical position to camera left, firing at 1/64 power through a Godox 120–cm S120W softbox with double diffuser.
Strobes set and triggered via Godox X Pro II radio controller on the camera’s hot shoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Gitzo Systematic Series 3 GT3543XLS tripod with Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head.
Nikon Z7 II camera body. Lenses: Nikon Z7 II camera body. Lenses: Nikkor Z 35mm, ƒ/1.8 S; Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S; Z 85mm, ƒ/1.8 S; Z MC 105mm, ƒ/2.8 macro; and Z 135mm, ƒ/1.8 S Plena. Camera triggered remotely via Pixel Oppilas RW–221 radio transmitter and receiver.
Protestant Bible, hidden behind a Catholic Holy Bible title page. Printed in Geneva in 1585.
The library of the Catholic University in Lyon says there are only three other such books held in libraries in France.