Tag: Fort Ethan Allen Studio
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| PIX OF THE WEEK - Eric |
| Dec 27, 2009 08:04:10 | |
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SUBJECT: Eric
LOCATION: Ft. Ethan Allen Studio (Colchester, VT) CAMERA: Canon Mark 1D IIN DATE: April 10, 2008
Eric's mother won the spring edition of the "Bid on Burlington" sponsored by Clear Channel Radio and brought Eric into the studio for the some pix.
I wanted to do something a bit different to really bring out his blue eyes. I shot him against a large Savage blue seamless backdrop. I lit the background using a single Dynalite 4040 head fitted with a honeycomb grid spot and lit Eric using
a standard Dynalite head fitted with a softbox.
Exposure was at 1/200th of a second at F16 at 100 ISO (focal length 97mm)
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Tags (Seperate Multiple Tags With A Comma): Dynalite | PIX OF THE WEEK | Fort Ethan Allen Studio | Canon 1D Mark IIN | Mike Worthington Photographer |
| Mike |
| PIX OF THE WEEK - Safa from Rupa and the April Fishes |
| Dec 27, 2009 07:44:19 | |
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SUBJECT: Safa Shokrai LOCATION: The Studio (Colchester, VT) CAMERA: Canon Mark 1D IIN DATE: April 10, 2008
This image is from a photo session I did with a wonderful, up & coming and unique music act called RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES the other week.
http://www.myspace.com/aprilfishes
Jacob Edgar of CUMBANCHA RECORDS asked me to shoot the band during a recent performance here and he also then arranged for a studio session while the band was enroute from Montreal to Boston. This is one of my favorite images that I
If you ever get a chance to catch Rupa and her Fishes you will not be disappointed. In June Rupa and her band will be touring thru Europe but back in the States and Canada in June. You can catch them in the likes of NYC in Central Park in late June and on July 5th during the Montreal Jazz fest and then they back touring on the west coast in the end of July. You'll think you stepped into a scene in some crazy movie with a bunch of gypsies!!! Really folks, Rupa is a can't miss act. Plus, she's a doctor of internal medicine too which is really cool!!!
The background was a simple "fashion gray" seamless Savage paper backdrop. Lighting was provided by a single Dynalite 4040 head mounted in a medium soft box to my left.
Exposure was at 1/125th of a second at F16 at 100 ISO (focal length 105mm)
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took that day and it is of Safa Shokrai the standup bass player for the band. | Mike |
| PIX OF THE WEEK - Alma |
| Dec 18, 2009 05:24:20 | |
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SUBJECT: Alma
LOCATION: Fort Ethan Allen Studio (Colchester, VT) CAMERA: Canon Mark 1D IIN LENS: Canon 70-200 F2.8 series IS lens DATE: July 2008
Once again, I found myself struggling and struggling with picking just ONE pix for this week's PIX OF THE WEEK series. I got so many amazing shots of Alma it was really tough. She's got amazing skin, beautiful eyes and one of the most engaging looks a photographer could ever hope for. I finally just told myself no matter which one you pick, it will be very nice.
Lighting couldn't have been much more simpler - a Dynalite 4040 head mounted in a soft box to the camera right triggered remotely by a PocketWizard Plus II.
Exposure was 1/160th of a second at F16 at 100 ISO (focal length was set at 140mm)
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| PIX OF THE WEEK - Sean |
| Dec 18, 2009 04:38:26 | |
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LOCATION: Fort Ethan Allen Studio (Colchester, VT) LENS: Canon 24-105mm F4 IS L series DATE: March 2008 December, 2007
I wanted to do something a bit different instead of all the cliché baby pix everyone sees so I had the baby's father lay on the ground holding the infant up in the air against a black backdrop. I lit the baby (9 weeks old) with a single softbox mounted high overheadangled down. And yes, if you are thinking if there was an accident there was (and we were warned too by the baby's mother warned us that as soon as we remove the diaper, expect a little accident). Luckily for me (but not so lucky for the baby's father), I was ableto get out of the way quickly.
Lighting provided by a single Dynalite flash head mounted in a softbox fired remotely with a PocketWizard Plus II. Exposure F13 at 1/200th of a second at 100 ISO.
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SUBJECT: SEAN| Mike |
| PIX OF THE WEEK - DJ Nastee of VT Union |
| Dec 18, 2009 00:11:02 | |
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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.
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| PIX OF THE WEEK - Karen from Nairobi, Kenya |
| Dec 17, 2009 23:49:25 | |
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SUBJECT: Karen from Nairobi
LOCATION: Fort Ethan Allen Studio (Colchester, VT) CAMERA: Canon Mark 1D IIN LENS: Canon 24-105mm F4 IS L series DATE: December, 2007
Karen is a nursing student from Nairobi, Kenya. I had met her a couple of months before and told her that if she ever wants her picture taken to look me up. Anyway, some time later, she called me I had her come by the studio while she was on her winter school break.
Taking my inspiration from old the old National Geographic images from the 1920s (photographers back then used to often photograph the indigenous peoples they wrote about in profile to create a very powerful image), I wanted to shoot Karen in B&W much the same way. This would allow me to show her very defined jaw line and to highlight her really cool braids in her hair.
However, Karen has this infectious smile and personality that could light up just about any room - so I couldn't resist getting a few shots of her as her normal self too (smiling). In fact, I think she struggled a bit with the serious look!!!
Lighting was provided by a single Dynalite head fired thru a medium-sized soft box. Exposure was 1/160th of a second at F13. J. Michael Worthington, Jr. 802.578.8515 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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| Heinz Valenta - PIX OF THE WEEK by Mike Worthington Photographer (Burlington, VT) |
| Dec 17, 2009 23:26:53 | |
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LOCATION: Fort Ethan Allen Studio (Colchester, VT) CAMERA: Canon Mark 1D IIN LENS: Canon 24-105mm F4 IS L series DATE: March 2008
Heinz came by the last week for some portfolio updates. We took a few casual shots that came out very well (what the original shoot was planned to accomplish) but he also had brought with him a tux so I figured this might be a good opportunity to experiment a bit.
The main light was a Dynalite 4040 head fired thru a medium soft box to the camera right on a light stand about 8 or 9 feet up and positioned about 5 or 6 feet from the subject. I also placed another flash head back about another additional 6 or 7 feet bounced thru an silver umbrella about 5 feet off the ground. A third head was positioned with a snoot attached aimed on the background to give a "spotlight" effect.
Exposure was at 1/125th of a second at F11 set at 100 ISO and a focal length of 40mm.
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SUBJECT: Heinz