Soldier Boy

I'm doing some work for my old man, Paul, who's in the Tinterweb Busyness. It's for free, but they will pay (2 shirt buttons) if the pictures are used. They are doing a lot of small web sites for a book publishing company, they are usually small print runs for folk who are self publishing, hence very low budget.

If any of you guys doing 'products' wants to borrow these props and have a go, let me know.

I'm in the process of setting up a room as a tempory studio. These are taken using natural daylight, a tripod and a remote shutter release, Nikon D90 with 18 to 105mm lens. I'm using a variety of exposure combinations and ISOs ranging from 200 to 400. Higher ISOs should not be a problem, as the pictures are uased at relatively low resolution on the web sites.



I enjoy working with available light, this room seems to have good lighting qualities with light from above, the far bay window and double glass doors to the right. Eric and I have been transfixed by Irving Penn's work which was mainly done using available natural light apparently. The draw backs are it's time and weather sensitive, passing clouds on windy days make radical changes to light. I'm going to experiment with reflectors and borrow the portable lights. The brick wall to the left faces south, so most of the light is not direct.




Yes, I am doing portrait still.