Thursday, October 23, 2008

"Jessie's Place"

"Jessie's Place"
© David A. Ziser

Here is one more image made at Saturday's Bat Mitzvah party later that evening. The room decor was very colorful and hip. There was a party wanting to happen in this room. I always like to get a quick portrait of the guest of honor, Jessie in this case, among the room decor. Normally I would use my shoot through umbrella technique, but in this instance, the light from the umbrella would have spilled too heavily into the surrounds. I chose instead to use my "Z-Ray" flashlight covered earlier on this blog. It's narrow beam filled the bill for this rather dramatic portrait of Jessie moments before the party broke loose. Easy, fast, and effective - that's the kind of technique you need in these fast paced situations. Camera specs; Canon 40D fitted with 10-22mm lens at 10mm, F 3.5 @ 1/50 second, ISO 1250.
Enjoy! -David

4 comments:

  1. Love this image. I'm need to practice with backgrounds like this. Just like to look and feel of the colors versus her dress. How much of this image was Post-production? Thanks for the great blog.

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  2. Great shot! Great creative technique as well! How did you white balance this? Looks like a good case for using RAW...

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  3. Love those types of lights. We have mentioned similar ones on our podcast at http://cameradojo.com.

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  4. Got my Z-Ray in this week. Can't wait to give it a try at next weekend's wedding!

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