Reinventing myself...
This entry was originally published at Clarence Harvey Photography.
I decided that I wanted to see if I could challenge myself, reinvent myself, rethink photography and what it means to me and the means of how I turn moments into memories. Zack Arias actually was the catalyst to it all, with his stunning short video to encourage and inspire photographers. To continue to evolve myself and my photography was what I took from the video. So with that decided, I wanted the main focus to be on off camera lighting. I mean... finding natural light is good and all... But I bought two flashes for a reason right? They were lonely and a small film of dust covered them. So with my flashes, light modifiers, pocket wizards and a lovely friend to help me out I was off to the races.
Boy was the start of that day ridiculous (to say the least)! I started off trying to do off camera lighting work with iTTL via McNally. When that didn't work out all that well, I tried to do manual settings on the flash while I was in aperture priority. Total FAIL. Then I got everything into manual and then I did a lot of ridiculousness. Flash was overexposes my subject? Am I changing shutter speed or aperture? Wait... why am I on a shutter speed of 1/5000th of a sec? What is going ON?! FINALLY though I got the hang of everything! It's as if everything clicked into place. Aperture controls flash. Shutter controls ambient. Don't exceed your sync speed (wow I actually know what it is now) etc. etc. etc. Not to say that I'm a lighting genius now. But dang... fiddle around for a couple hours and things really do come into play.
Before I get into all the photos, I had another shoot the next day. We were really crunched on time and decided to go do some "on location" shooting. No time to fiddle with lights, modifiers, etc. etc. So I decided to go back to my old ways, my comfort zone. I guess I want you readers to look at the two different styles and give me some constructive criticism. Like the new? Love the old? Hate them all? Comment away!
I'll start off with the "Hair Flinging" series. hahaha
My try on "Seamless White" without actually having a seamless white paper thing.
Finally "Colors"
Now its time for my next shoot. Back to the basics! Back to the old! Back to the future! ahahah.
Thanks all for reading everything! Love you guys! Don't forget to comment. =)
