mose EXPOSED fashion show

Shot a fashion show last week (4-22-08). This was a non-commissioned shoot, so with no pressure, I thought I'd play around a bit with lighting. In addition, this was my first time to use 4 wireless flashes at once, kind of what motivated me to go. I was pretty excited. This post gives a small breakdown of it.


Here's me playing with rainbows. The left was from a tungsten back light. the right is one of my strobes. I figured out how to make the rainbow refraction with the stationary light, then transferred that to the strobe. I found several people like the right one. These are cool, but not my favorite, just fun.

This particular one is my favorite. You might notice the lights on above her. The room lights came on for some mysterious reason during one "line" of walks. I liked the lights personally, after quickly making some adjustments I was able to make some nice captures. Then the overhead lights shut off again. While a girl (Lauren) was walking down the runway. A little unorganized, but what ya gonna do.


SETTINGS:

Shutter was at 1/200. I was using ebay (cactus triggers), so I couldn't go much faster. F-stop, 2.8 pretty much the whole time, and the ISO fluctuated, I tried to keep it below 400.

4 flashes. 3 high wattage tungstens. The flashes were not gelled. This was not on purpose. The video guys brought in these lights 10 minutes before the show started and I was in the back. Nevertheless, it worked out fine. The 2 flashes in the "back" were at 1/16th power, the two behind me at 1/4th. all bouncing off the ceiling. Two tungstens behind me, one in the "back".


The 16mm shot on the left shows the set up a little. The different color temperatures of lights is very obvious in this picture, but it's not so horrible of an effect. It might come across as amature to an experienced strobist, but looks cool to the general public (asked around). The right shot was my ideal walking shot.


VIDEO mose EXPOSED show stills:


direct link for the non-embed RSSers http://animoto.com/play/EerERDAB3IlVqyqmsnVjvw


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what? a jump after all that. Yes, click here or visit the URL below to see my facebook album of 60 pics from the show. The video pretty much covers it tho.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2032442&l=560e0&id=194602817



-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

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How to shoot lightning.

I grabbed a few more lightning shots the other night. This was my favorite.. I think. We saw a strike hit a transformer and light up so many different colors, it was amazing, but the camera was pointed the other direction. Anyway, as I constantly upload photos to facebook multiple friends see them and ask how I do it... There's a trick. And I'm sharing it with the www.



First off, there is a lot of luck involved, don't get discouraged. It might take you years to get one good shot, and you might only have 1 good storm a year. Us Dallas and Fort Worth folks get about one good storm a week in April and May. I was the opposite, I got the shot of my life my first time out. It's almost depressing because I don't think I'll ever top this shot from 2006, unless I just get really really lucky. But I'll keep trying.


so..

How To:

What you do is find a dark place, and point the camera at that area, in hopes of lighting. The most difficult part is finding a place that is covered, and that shows a lot of land. Lightning is really bright, so you expose for basically a cloudy day.

Here's my usual settings
ISO : 100-200
F-stop : 8.0ish
shutter speed: 20-30 seconds, or bulb

As long as what you see through the sensor is black or dark, your camera records nothing. It only records light, so you just wait for a strike, which lasts usually a fraction of a second. In theory, how ever long the strike lasts, is how long the shutter speed is. It's a neat trick, took me a while to figure out the settings and how to really make it work. Exxperiement on your own to find what you like.

This is a great example. Close to a 20 minute (1200 second) shutter speed, pointed at a lake.



Play around.
You don't nessesarily have to shoot in a dark area. I've had my share of playing with other light, and shutter speeds. Once you understand how it works, you can be a little more dynamic. This is a 20 second shutter, over a highway. This however, is the only one that has come out of mine so far with other lights purposely present. I still find that the car lights and the lights just over the trees over power the lightning a bit.




Be careful.
Know where to bail in case of a tornado, don't try to photograph it. Be smart and aware. Photography wise, make sure that there is no water on the lens, and that you're shooting in raw. The intensity of a strike is completely unpredictable, so you'll want the extra information raw gives you to make adjustments on your photos. And mostly have fun.


JUMP
to see more of my pictures of lightning click here, or visit:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2009255&l=0e3e9&id=194602817



-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

jdonut photography, LLC
Denton Wedding Photography
We Make Virtual Tours
Dallas Aerial Photography
UNT Photography
UNT Photo Club

Strangers and a studio.

Last week was NT Preview. Where potential freshman come and check out the school. Being president of the UNT Photo Club, I decided might as well grab a table and promote the club. It was me and David Wixom holding up the fort. We set up a little studio and offered free pictures to anyone, having no idea what we would get.



Some pictures were a lot of fun to take. I might even have to add a few to the portfolio, but I don't have model releases so I'm not sure if I can. We got a fun mixture of different kinds of people. Usually parents wanted pictures, and the kids wanted nothing to do with it, cept to learn about the club and look through the pictures we had on display.

This particular image was my favorite. Their clothing is completely unsaturated, and their two different skin tones mix beautifully.

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to see more pics from NT preview click Here, or the direct link below to the facebook album
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2032391&l=47bb0&id=194602817



-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

jdonut photography, LLC
Denton Wedding Photography
We Make Virtual Tours
Denton Wedding Photography
UNT Photography
UNT Photo Club

Alan (the) Farmer

Haha. My current roomate Alan Farmer was the subject for a photo Illustration for the North Texas Daily today. We did a play on words with his name. I found it pretty funny.


"Photo Illustration. Senior geography student, Alan Farmer finds the farmer inside him for Earth Day." is the caption.

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Read the Article Here. Click the link to see it published and more photos.
http://media.www.ntdaily.com/media/storage/paper877/news/2008/04/22/News/Students.Can.Go.Green-3340389.shtml



-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

jdonut photography, LLC
Denton Wedding Photography
We Make Virtual Tours
Denton Wedding Photography
UNT Photography
UNT Photo Club

animoto videos.

This site is pretty amazing. It makes videos for you, and uses a heck of a lot of AI to do so. You can play around and make unlimited free 30 second videos, or pay a small fee and make full length ones. I decided to make a full length for $3.

As most of you know, I'm a professional photographer, so to really test this site, I chose my smugmug album "family easter 2008", a collection of photos of my family hunting eggs. Potential for major bordom, but it wasn't. See for yourself!


for the RSS users: http://animoto.com/play/DXU0KNcCV82z7Tt7IMOITQ

not so bad huh?

Check it out. Animoto.com. They have a Referral program too!. If you sign up, use this code cxghzfwk to get $5 off the full service, and to get me three free months! 30 second videos are free!

again. $5 off with this code: cxghzfwk


-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

jdonut photography, LLC
Denton Wedding Photography
We Make Virtual Tours
Denton Wedding Photography
UNT Photography
UNT Photo Club

Made the UNT homepage again!!

Brad and I entered the Green Pride video contest at UNT, and won a Nintindo Wii. Not only that, but we made the home page of UNT.edu... again! (referring to the previous chick-fil-a video contest interview)


Photo by Angilee Wilkerson
Click Here to see more photos

Here's a link to the ARTICLE about our video.
http://www.unt.edu/greenpride/video_winners.htm

The video is cut really quickly, it had to be under 30 seconds.


And For you rss folks who can't see the VIDEO, Here's a link.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h2jJ8Lf5gVE



-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

jdonut photography, LLC
Denton Wedding Photography
We Make Virtual Tours
Denton Wedding Photography
UNT Photography
UNT Photo Club

Double front cover.

Good day the other day for journalism.
For those of you who don't know, I'm shooting for the NT Daily this semester. I wanted to get my feet wet in a very important genre of photography that I had not pursued previously.

anyway...

I've been waiting all semester for the demolition crew to smash the wrecking ball into what once was Master's Hall on the UNT campus. They finally did during my 8am geography class, and my professor, (George Maxey, who is awesome by the way) saw it happening through the window, publically dismissed me, then brought my backpack down to me after class. Pretty cool.


Later that day, I came across a fire. I saw smoke rising and went to investigate, only to see some guy waving frantically. Turned out to be David Lucio, A NT Daily writer, along with arlinda another writer and a page designer.
Both stories made the front cover. :)


To see more photos from these events visit:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2031562&l=af37f&id=194602817

-Jonny Carroll
Photographer

jdonut photography, LLC
Denton Wedding Photography
We Make Virtual Tours
Denton Wedding Photography
UNT Photography
UNT Photo Club