Workshops with Mike Larson III
Here’s the final part of the Mike Larson/Sunbounce/Calumet trilogy. But before we move on to the bride pictures, I’d like to give a big thanks to two new friends. Waldemar (or something like that) and Stefan from Sunbounce worked sooooo hard to make everything go smooth for Mike and me. While we were enjoying breakfast, these guys were setting up everything each morning. Waldemar (or something like that) is a former police officer from Kazachstan who’s normally in charge of manually bending German steel and putting it in the SunMover reflectors. We decided to call him the real Sun Sniper. Stefan is only 14 years old (or something like that) but seems to manage the traveling Sunbounce circus like he was born in that same circus. As you can tell, they are both big fans of Fotofolio.
In Amsterdam the weather wasn’t great but at least it didn’t rain. I felt I needed some air, so I decided to move outside for my speedlight/sunbounce demo. In this kind of industrial area, there’s lots of nice background to be found but maybe not suited for pictures of a bride. But the blue sky with some fluffy clouds seemed suitable. Backgrounds don’t always have to be vertical things. Don’t forget to look up and down when searching for backgrounds too. I needed to raise the fantastic model Julia a bit to get rid of the buildings in the background so Stefan and Waldemar (or something like that) went asking for some pallets at the nearby Calumet store.
Exposing for the sky gave me a nice background but turned the model into a silhouette. Sunbounce Pro and speedlight to the rescue. The flash was set to full power to get enough light on the model. We choose the gold/silver zebra fabric to warm up the skin tones a bit. The warm light contrasts nicely with the blue tones of the sky.
Thanks to Mike for taking these setup shots.
And here are the results:
I had an amazing four days on the road but I must admit that after the long drive home from Amsterdam I was absolutely exhausted. I’m still looking for my usual energy levels. Big thanks for all who helped organizing these workshops and to all the people who attended.
Wow, die laatste foto is héél knap! Jullie hadden in Nederland zo te zien iets meer geluk met het weer & de wind. Niettegenstaande was het ontzettend interessant en leerrijk om jou (and the rest of the crew) aan het werk te zien. Chapeau aan de Sunbounce crew en het hele concept van dit gebeuren. Ik kijk alvast uit naar de volgende sessie!
Hi Bert!
Really nice pictures. As always.
/Daniel
PS. I really like your videos that you have posted before.
Are you thinking of making more informative videos in the future?
A bride on a pallet, you can take an interesting picture about that subject too.
Fast bride delivery by UPS.
Very interesting !! Wish I was there.
Guy
thx all
@Stijn: the weather was far from great and we still had lots of wind but the fun part of the job is making those pics look sunny
@Daniel: I’m trying to make some video’s in the near future
@Leo: Mail order bride
@Guy: Next time
Hi Bert,
Thanks for showing your great photos and technique as you always do. How did you get that very nice look/lighting in the last image? Its so different from the one above.
Thanks and keep up the good work and sharing.
Thx Peter. The last one is exactly the same setups as the other pics but I cooled down the colors a bit in post.
Great post, really useful. For a professional is really easy to understand this great tecniques and of course to use them
Hi Bert,
I am your big fan…Confession of a photographer, Lime Project, 50-50…Watch them so many times!!! And thanks for sharing your great lighting stuff in your blog..
Love love it!!!
P.S. I really like your way in dealing with photos. Very flexible to any situations and you are really versatile
Thx Matrimonio and Surin
Many thanks for text and pictures. It was very interesting and inspiring.
just came across your site searching lighting tips…..love it!!!!….would like to ask u what master/slave system u used for this shot?????
@Lori: this was done with Pocketwizards