SUBJECT: DJ NASTEE

LOCATION: Fort Ethan Allen Studio (Colchester, VT)

CAMERA: Canon Mark 1D IIN

LENS: Canon 24-105mm F4 IS L series

January 13, 2008

The guys from VT UNION dropped by the studio this past weekend for some promotional material shots.  In addition to shooting the group together, we did some individual shots.  Here are a few shots of DJ Nastee that I think really came out well and brought out his personality.

Since I always shoot in RAW format, I normally adjust my lens to be between 1/3 to 1/2 stop under what my light meter reading says that way I can ensure that all the information is captured by the CCD sensor.  By slightly underexposing things, this allows the flexibility to play with the image later for different effects.  It is always easier to increase the exposure later, as opposed to decreasing it (if you overexpose an image, the information is lost forever).  However, in this case, to get the style of lighting and contrast I wanted, I actually bracketed the shots to be about a 1/3 to 1/2 stop over the meter reading. 

Also, when shooting against the white background in the studio, I normally have my subjects stand about 10-12 feet in front of the wall.  In this case, I had DJ Nastee stand only about 6 to 7 feet in front of the background so that some of the light would bleed around him creating something of a rim light effect, however, I had to

be very careful with this approach, as my light meter was giving me a F45 on the background.  Since VT Union is a Rap/DJ group, I adjusted the contrast in the camera (I didn't' want to mess with things in Photoshop later) to bring out that lighting sty

le that is popular in mags like VIBE, ESPN, etc.

Front lighting provided by a 2 Dynalite flash heads (one mounted in a soft box the other simply with a standard reflector.  Background lighting provided by 2 Novatron flash heads fired at full power (both background and front strobes fired remotely by a PocketWizard Plus II).  Fill lighting achieved by using a silver circular reflector hand held by an assistant about 3 feet from the subject. 

Exposure was F14 at 1/125th of a second at 100 ISO. 

J. Michael Worthington, Jr.

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