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09/22/2010 03:53:11 PM · #1

Just wanted to share...

Had the opportunity to shoot this up n' coming band from Toronto. Band is Affinity.Affinity Webpage
Shot at Cherry Cola Club at Queen and Bathurst st. Toronto Club Webpage

With the help of "that dude is hot"

Coley,

Quigley and a few friends these are the shots the band picked. Lighting setups posted on each shot.

It was a blast!!

If any locals interested, their CD release party is at Tattoo Webpage on Oct 21st.
Who's joining me?

DrAchoo

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5

09/22/2010 03:58:16 PM · #2

Awesome shots! I'm guessing the band must be happy with them!

09/22/2010 04:01:31 PM · #3

Great shots Leo! Thanks for taking the time to do the lighting setups too. Is the red from gels?

09/22/2010 04:09:12 PM · #4

Originally posted by jasonlprice:

Great shots Leo! Thanks for taking the time to do the lighting setups too. Is the red from gels?

The walls in this place are a stunning red to begin with. I wanted to keep the warmth and ambiance of this place. I gelled the speedlites so i wouldn't lose the red with hot light from the flashes thus losing the genereal feel of the room.

DrAchoo

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5

09/22/2010 04:12:46 PM · #5

<------ thinks studio lighting is equivalent to "the great unknown"...

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

09/22/2010 04:58:27 PM · #6

Originally posted by LVicari:

Originally posted by jasonlprice:
Great shots Leo! Thanks for taking the time to do the lighting setups too. Is the red from gels?

The walls in this place are a stunning red to begin with. I wanted to keep the warmth and ambiance of this place. I gelled the speedlites so i wouldn't lose the red with hot light from the flashes thus losing the genereal feel of the room.

Ahh...that makes since. I was wondering how you changed the color of the walls to red and kept the great skin tones...I never dreamed the walls started out red! Was it 1/4 CTO on all of them?

Jason, me too but I'm starting the loooong journey of at least attempting to learn how to use strobes appropriately. These shots like Leo's make me want to learn even more.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

09/22/2010 05:10:49 PM · #7

That's really good work, Leo. Thanks for sharing.

Now let me digress a bit... I was backtracking through your portfolio, shot-by-shot, going quite a ways back, and it dawned on me:

*** NOT A SINGLE IMAGE IS OF A SMILING PERSON! ***

When did this happen? When did it become the norm to pose for photographs as if you are carrying the weight of a collapsing world on your shoulders? Note that I'm not "blaming" you; clearly that's how these people want to be portrayed. But WHY?

R.

09/22/2010 05:13:18 PM · #8

Originally posted by jasonlprice:

Originally posted by LVicari:

Originally posted by jasonlprice:
Great shots Leo! Thanks for taking the time to do the lighting setups too. Is the red from gels?

The walls in this place are a stunning red to begin with. I wanted to keep the warmth and ambiance of this place. I gelled the speedlites so i wouldn't lose the red with hot light from the flashes thus losing the genereal feel of the room.

Ahh...that makes since. I was wondering how you changed the color of the walls to red and kept the great skin tones...I never dreamed the walls started out red! Was it 1/4 CTO on all of them?

Jason, me too but I'm starting the loooong journey of at least attempting to learn how to use strobes appropriately. These shots like Leo's make me want to learn even more.

Ahh! The skin tones were the hard part. The walls are red and thus I gelled them with, well, red gels!! the skin however wasn't that easy. I built the lights one at a time.
I started with lighting Ashley. Beauty dish and a strobe behind her. The light was making her too "cold" against the red scene, so I had to "warm" her up using warming gels. Then followed the same thought process for the guys and the speedlites that were facing the guys. I purposely left the skin tones a little more red than usual to resemble a red light reflection off the walls. I didn't want the flashes to be too obvious. I hope I accomplished that. I think I did.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

09/22/2010 05:15:34 PM · #9

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Really? let me look back.
As for these band shots, I think its an 'attitude" thing. As for the rest of my port I will have to get back to you.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

09/22/2010 05:18:25 PM · #10

Originally posted by LVicari:

Really? let me look back.
As for these band shots, I think its an 'attitude" thing. As for the rest of my port I will have to get back to you.

Okay. I started with the band pictures you just posted, then started clicking back one-by-one through that particular DPC portfolio of yours. I stopped when I reached the B/W shot of a guy sitting in a studio with some prints on the wall behind him, that's as far back as i went. Included a bunch of model shots. Not a smile anywhere :-)

R.

yanko

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

09/22/2010 05:25:07 PM · #11

Man that red is intense. Did you get any messages pop up saying some of the reds are out of the ProPhoto RGB gamut? :P

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

09/22/2010 05:30:44 PM · #12

Originally posted by yanko:

Man that red is intense. Did you get any messages pop up saying some of the reds are out of the ProPhoto RGB gamut? :P

HA! if i did get the warnings, I couldn't see it cuz my corneas were seriously damaged.I was seeing red for days!

Quigley

Nikon D700

09/22/2010 06:32:07 PM · #13

Leo these look great but I thought you would save one for a free study.

As usual it was great fun shooting with you and I'm always ready to do it again.

All the best to you and yours my friend.

MAX!

"Just remember, clean up your shit because it won't be pretty if I have to loose it and you don't want to see me loose it, got it? Just clean up your shit!!"

Over bearing club owner's quote to us as we were getting ready to go in and set up. He had loads to sat as he loves the sound of his own voice but that's all I remember right now as he droned on for some time.

Maybe Leo and Cole can remember more.

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

09/22/2010 08:55:28 PM · #14

Originally posted by Quigley:

Leo these look great but I thought you would save one for a free study...

Thx Max. No free study for these shots. Not DPC free study material.

Coley

Nikon D810

09/22/2010 08:56:54 PM · #15

Originally posted by Quigley:

lol !!!

"Don't make me loose my shit , I hate to loose my shit!!! " The guy was hot :D

Congrats on the shoot Leo the pics are golden

The whole event was a controlled riot and as Max says the Barkeep was a real prize.

Thanks again for having me along

Coley

09/22/2010 08:59:50 PM · #16

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by LVicari:

Really? let me look back.
As for these band shots, I think its an 'attitude" thing. As for the rest of my port I will have to get back to you.

Okay. I started with the band pictures you just posted, then started clicking back one-by-one through that particular DPC portfolio of yours. I stopped when I reached the B/W shot of a guy sitting in a studio with some prints on the wall behind him, that's as far back as i went. Included a bunch of model shots. Not a smile anywhere :-)

R.

You're right. Pretty glum in that folder. However, plenty of smiles elsewhere in my port.
Maybe I ask them not to smile cuz I don't want the pic coming across as a snapshot, posed, or forced smile shot.

Models, they are soo difficult!! :)

09/22/2010 09:10:15 PM · #17

Thanks all, having a good laugh at this thread. I now have this picture in my head of Cole frantically working the smoke machine, Max consoling the crazy bartender and Leo trying to get all the models to stop smiling.

09/22/2010 09:28:25 PM · #18

Originally posted by jasonlprice:

Frantic it was!

A little more background ot this shoot...
We were supposed to be In the bar for 5pm. Crazy owner didn't let us in till closer to 6!! Took us over an hour to set up lights for the first shot(upstairs). Didn't start shooting till after 7. Then at at 7:40ish the owner yells out.. You better be out by 8!!! (Originally it was 9)
So we had a mad scramble to set up the basement shot. Shot and cleaned everything up and out by 8.

Actually, now that I recall, we started shooting around 7:15 ish, I had lens issues so I wasted time with that, had to use Cole's camera. Then I had to deal with Cole saying that some guy was hot. And we had a good chuckle over that one..Readjust lights, so the guy wasn't hot anymore:)
So ya it was a frantic and good experience.
Glad I had my boys with me.

09/23/2010 07:25:33 PM · #19

Here is an update..

Graphics were added..

09/23/2010 07:50:08 PM · #20

Cool Leo! I like the lower perspective crop, but whoever did the graphics messed up those perfect skin tones!

Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D IF

09/23/2010 07:54:17 PM · #21

Originally posted by jasonlprice:

Cool Leo! I like the lower perspective crop, but whoever did the graphics messed up those perfect skin tones!

Ya not sure what happened there. Graphics were outta my hands.

Message edited by author 2010-09-23 19:55:53.

Tommy_Mac

Nikon D800

09/23/2010 07:58:42 PM · #22

Awesome photos Leo!!!