Well… we were going to run another photo shoot at my place but thanks to Derek we managed to get the Airport to shoot in tonight. Yes… it was a good thing… we had almost two dozen people on hand, a dozen photographers and a dozen models.
For us the photographers, it was a chance to socialize with other locals sharing the same intrests, a chance to learn new techniques, a chance to photograph people we may or may not know… but best of all… it’s us getting out shooting instead of wishing we were.
Now… this couldn’t have all worked without a big group of people who showed up, our Models.
Yes… we lucked out completely on this as we couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to come out with us tonight. These locals came out to see what we could do with a camera in our hands and in turn… we’ll make sure they get the best of our nights photos.
We had kids, couples, Belly Dancers, Maternity shots and more. A big thank you goes out to Nicole, Brooklyn and Falon, Emma, Melissa Sue, Karali, Krista, Jonathon, Stacey, Jessica, Natasha and Dave for being our Models tonight!
For Photographers we ended up with Laura J., Anne S., Chris M., Chris P., John T., Bruce H., Derek K., Andrew S., Joel J., Doug R., Carolle E. and her son (sorry… forgot a name ), Robin E. as well as myself.
We couldn’t get into the Airport prior to 5pm as we had to wait till the last flight was finished, but once the place emptied out we started filling it again. For the first hour we set up our lights, scoped out locations, generally just got used to the whole situation. Once the initial awkwardness was dealt with though… things started running so smoothly… people were moving from room to room, shooting different people, trying out different lights and reflectors and generally having a blast.
Unfortunately I didn’t get much chance to shoot tonight as I wanted to make sure all our models and photographers were set up and having fun… but I did manage to sneak in a couple of shots here and there.
Here are two shots I managed to get of Nicole… while standing on top of a 12′ ladder. Unfortunately this was also a rush… the lights were on too hot… out of position… and yep… I had my 70-200 f/4 IS USM lens on the camera and didn’t have time to swap it up. In post though… ran it through some spot corrections and into Portrait Professional.. and… voila…


This shot… was done in about 5 mins… I walked in the room… asked Joel if I could borrow his Cybersync transmitter… and bam… about 5 shots and done. I ended up throwing the shot into ColorEffects to bring out some detail (instead of using Topaz Detail) and then ended up sharpening it a bit using the high pass filter on the way to saving it.

I was hoping to do the shot a bit differently as I wanted to flag the light off the shoulders… maybe snoot it… but… with bare Vivitars… I’m happy.
And with that… a simpler shot of the above in Black and White… a bit more subtle…

So… bed calls… but it was a blast tonight… and can’t wait to see more of the shots from the night…
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