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Couple designs from Barbara Seipp of Phlox. MUA and hair Terri Lodge, model Sam.

This photo obviously has a couple of light splotches on the left leg that still need cleanin’ up.

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check out the back on this dress

Isn’t that cool? Very elegant too.

Lighting geeks– it’s an RF. No retouching at all.

Model Tessa, makeup Terri Lodge

‘Course we got rained, snowed, and hailed out of any outdoor shooting today.  It’s been crazy weather lately.  Like it’s not just rain, it’s hail and 37 degrees out!

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thieves

Friend of mine alerted me to one of my photos being used illegally on a local weekly newspaper’s website. The newspaper web dude literally just stole the image off another site and posted it on their site. I telephoned him and explained some of the reasons it was illegal for him to do that– illegal under federal law at that! I was polite but the guy seemed confused.

He kept talking about how he had gotten the photo from a public agency (which he didn’t) so it was okay. Hmmmm… since I shot the photo, and it was NOT a work-for-hire situation, and I own the copyright, this didn’t make much sense to me.

This is the same weekly that promised to pay me for publication of another photo last year. They never did. And prior to that, they ran one of my photos with the wrong credit. Pretty impressive, eh?

Anyway, the point of this post is just because you see it on the web, doesn’t mean you can grab it and use it for your own purposes. Someone else likely owns the copyright and if you don’t think copyright is a big deal, you might want to check out what the founders of the USA thought about it. Copyright and the ownership of created images/art/etc were so important to them it’s literally mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.

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variation

Another variation on the photos I’ve been working on lately. It’s kind of intense.

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“quick — can you shoot a band photo right now?”

Okay, so that was my assignment yesterday. I had about a thirty seconds to shoot three band members right after an interview. The setting was a radio interview studio (bland, gray, sound absorbing walls), my equipment was a single hotshoe flash on the hotshoe. So I slapped on a tungsten gel, pivoted the flash, and bounced it off a piece of white paper held to camera left. The shadows on the guy next to the “on air” sign are a bit goofy– but when you get five shots in thirty seconds with minimal equipment, that’s what often happens. Beats on cam flash though.

Anyway, the point is, as a photographer, it’s important to think on your feet. You won’t always have studio lighting and time to create images! Sometimes all you can do is shoot a mediocre shot within the time and equipment limitations given.

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catchin’ up

Slowly catching up on my post-production work. ‘Course about the time I catch up, I’ll be shooting more photos and the whole process will start all over again.

Anyway, here are a couple I finished up last night. They’re mostly variations on themes/concepts already posted here.

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more studio photography – portland oregon

Ran across this photo last night while on my perpetual quest to catch up on my post-production. I love the lighting!

For you “inside the sausage factory” types– the band of gray on the right though… well it looks cool here but it’s the result of using an head extension cord on only one side of a power pack. That apparently results in about a stop less of light, something I just learned. Needless to say, I have another head extension cord on order to balance out the light in the future!

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clothing boutique catalog fashion photographer portland oregon

Couple photos from a online catalog style shoot last weekend. The shoot location is at the boutique and a bit tight on space– takes pretty much perfect composition to squeeze in a 70 mm on a 1.3 crop for full body shots!

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moody fashion photo

I keep running across gem after gem from this shoot– like this one. Dress by Elizabeth Dye.

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back to our regularly scheduled programming

This is a studio photo– black satin background with a red geled strobe firing from behind, a red geled, gridded strip dome as rim light, and an RF as key.

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon