light painting

light 1
Originally uploaded by brendan.oshea

Thought I'd head off on a tangent here and try some light painting. I got a little torch and put some coloured gels over it, turned out all the lights, got the group to stand totally still for a couple of minutes and then I went ahead and drew all over their faces with the torch. When I was done with that I went behind them and did some random patterns.

Composite

Composite
Originally uploaded by brendan.oshea

I had a compilation album to do and it involved about six bands, and I didn't want to do the same old bandy type posed shots. So I took headshots of everyone, and for each band got an unusual facial feature from every member and used it as a composite. For the front cover I used a blend of everyone's face. (top left image) It's amazing how attractive the average of all the faces looks compared to the composites.
Mother nature did a pretty good job before I starting messing it up.

Natasha

Natasha
Originally uploaded by brendan.oshea

Am I starting to feel old? I was touring the world with bands when I was 19 years of age. But when I start doing shoots with people who are smart, talented and only 13 years old, I often wonder what the hell I've been doing with my life. For this shot I used a 45mm tilt shift lens on my 5D.

Brian

Brian
Originally uploaded by brendan.oshea

This is an out take from a Sydney band I did a shoot for recently. I thought the light was nice. It's actually getting pretty close to a more painterly style of lighting I've been trying to achieve. Sunpak through an Ezybox triggered by Pocket Wizards.

zygotic portraits

zygotic portraits
Originally uploaded by brendan.oshea

These guys were cool with me doing some experiments, so I set up a Sunpak through an umbrella, then lit the background with a tungsten light. The shutter speed was about a quarter second to bring up the background. A side benefit of the long shutter speed was a nice black halo around the guys where I moved the camera a little during the exposure.

zygotic group shot

zygotic group shot
Originally uploaded by brendan.oshea

Did a shoot for a band called Zygotic yesterday. They're all like 14 and 15 years old, and really good. Kids these days eh? You don't wanna know what I was busy doing every day when I was 14 years old, but it certainly wasn't anything cool.
Really simple lighting on this shot. A single bare Sunpak above and to the right of the camera, and another Sunpak shot into a reflector on the ground in front of them.Some of the light from the top strobe spilled onto the background creating a subtle aura. Maybe too subtle.

Zero Degrees

Zero Degrees
Originally uploaded by brendan.oshea

This carpark was interesting because just about every lightbulb was a different type, from low wattage flourescent to very warm incandescent. The blue area at the back is outside and very overcast. CTO gelled flash above the guys. Pretty much straight out of the camera except for the white balance.