Hey guys, just a preview of some of the portraits that I did with my brother Chris at Warped Tour. TAT here was one of our favorite groups to work with during the day – the three-piece brought a lot of enthusiasm and energy to the shoots, and we all had a blast.
The Owyoung Brothers knocked out a bunch of portraits for you, including exclusive shoots with Escape The Fate, Single File, Big D and the Kids Table, After Midnight Project, Forever the Sickest Kids, TV/TV, We the Kings, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and more.
Lighting Info:
We lit this shot with three Nikon Speedlights. We had two Nikon SB-900s for sidelighting camera right and left and an SB-900 into a 15″ softbox camera right for fill.
This is just one of the setups we rocked at Warped, and most of the shots we did involved between three and six remotes.
Except for the SB-900 into the softbox, all the strobes were shot bare. One thing I love about working with the speedlights is the ability to quickly dial in the flash power and move setups with minimal fuss throughout the day. No cords, no mess.
Stay tuned for the rest of the sets and their lighting setups.
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A little preview of Warped Tour portraits, starting off with punk rockers TAT, one of my favorite bands of the day: http://bit.ly/ALZzM
very cool, yet again. ;)
Thanks, Melissa! TAT were great, I’m really looking forward to working with them again.
Lots of attitude, easy going, and up for anything: in other words, the perfect subjects.
If you had lighting stands and all that jazz, where are you storing it while shooting in the photo pit or did you just shoot portraits?
Bryan, I was only shooting portraits at Warped.
A little preview of Warped Tour portraits, starting off with punk rockers TAT, one of my favorite bands of the day: http://bit.ly/ALZzM
Wasn’t TAT AWESOME? Such a great group of people – and Tatiana was hilarious. She even did the lovely job of calling me a… well, lots of vulgar words. But all in good gest – and she even hugged me in my fit of soaked-up-sweat. I loved her! Great photo!
Chris,
TAT was boss. Thanks for the comment. More coming up soon, we did one and a half more shoots with them beyond this setup.
I would start to beg for a tutorial for using speedlights!
Specifically the Nikon SB-900
I’ave read manual, watched dvd’s consulted my horoscope, no go.
Dialing them in, setting them up, manual mode, all the settings etc.
Okay Begging begins now….. Please! I would like to say please help, uhh this may become irritating, younger audience members may want to look away.
PLEASE!
Hey Luc,
How could I ignore such a kind request? You’re not the only one to ask for a tutorial on Speedlights, so now I think I have to start on a write-up about working with them. I think that there would be a few different parts to that article, including what you mentioned. Ambient exposure, flash exposure, shooting in manual mode vs TTL, different setups for different looks, etc.
Let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to know and I’ll try to fit it all into the article. I also have a few behind the scenes videos that I’ll be posting up shortly, so hopefully those will be interesting/helpful, too.
Impressive DOF. Especially with that hand right in front of your glass. What f-stop did you use?
Hey Al, Thanks for the comment. I think this was shot around f/11 or f/16. I can double-check the original file.
Jesus, that is the best news that I have heard in a long time!
In all my searches, through internet, dvd’s and manual, I have not found a decent complete tutorial for using the SB-900. I think that you are the only guy that can bring this to life. Due to you obvious talents in various areas, you are the man for the job. This has got to get you serious Karma points!
I think that it has to include the various aspects of use that others ignore for some reason.
TTL is easy enough, slap the SB-900 on the hot shoe and go, but for off the cam stuff in manual is a whole different story.
The SB-900 has so many variables in manual mode, ISO, MM, Fstop, etc you know the list. :)
Also working the unit through the commander mode vs changing power on the unit. IF that’s even wise.
I would love to see a complete run through of the units abilities, if they are used often or ignored.
I use the D700 and am also interested in sometimes using the popup flash with a off cam SB900 for a look.
All in all, I am sure your wisdom will guide us all through what has been for me at least, quite difficult.
Because from the sheer beauty of your photos, you’re the man that knows how to do this.
My deep gratitude, no joke.
Hey Luc,
Don’t thank me just yet; let me write the article first! Thanks for your thoughts on what would be useful to know, that helps a lot.
I think what I might do is a few posts – one that discusses Nikon’s “Creative Lighting System” of speedlights (including the SB-900) and another that does a run-through of how I set up/light a scene. Sound good? Let me know if anything else comes to mind and I’ll try to fit it in.
;’-) sorry about the premature gratitude.
I realize that it will take time and work, discussions and run through sounds great.
I look forward to the help.
Cheers
I’ll keep you posted, Luc. I actually just recorded a super quick video before a recent shoot and that gives a walkthrough about the lights, and you can see the basic setup. I’ll try and post that along with an image or two from the session, which I think might be interesting.
I too look forward to the Speedlight tutorial and the rest of the Warped pix.
I’m in the midst of reading a book on Speedlights by Joe McNally. It’s called Hot Shoe Diaries and definitely worth a look:
http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Shoe-Diaries-Flashes-Voices/dp/0321580141/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249869586&sr=8-1
Todd,
Super shot man! I love you work.
I have a question about your lighting setup. I’m a super noob when it comes photography in general, but especially lighting. I have a D90 and have started to fool around with taking fashion photography shots with some of my friends for fun. I want to invest in a couple of lights, so I can get more professional looking images and shoot shots in low light as well. I was planning on purchasing a sb-900 and sb-600. is that the right way to go? Do I need anything else to shoot wirelessly? I’m super confused as to if I need to purchase pocket wizards or not etc. It seems like I don’t have to because ofthe master/slave capabilities. Is the sb900 and sb600 a good way for me to go do you think? Or am I spending too much money just for something that I’m doing for fun? Any suggestions you have I’d appreciate!
-tys
Thanks RIch for the heads up onthe Joe book, I am in the middle of reading it.
I did watch his video on speedlights and either i missed it or he never went into manual mode.
To try to contribute to TY’s queston.
Spending money is the middle name of photography!
So hopefully that isn’t the issue. ;`)
As far as I know and of course Todd would know more, I’m certain.
First you need to be able to communicate wirelessly to the SB900 and 600 unless you use the 900 as a Master hotshoed to the camera. ( Is hotshoed a word? )
I use a D700 and it has a popup wireless flash that is used to set the D700 as Commander mode or is it Master mode? to trigger the other flashes.
So unless the D90 has built in wireless then you have to use an additional wireless system hotshoed to the camera. Or use the 900 to transmit.
Get a few reflectors for fashion shots to use as fills, but if you going to create high key glamour fashion shots then you going to need a powerful Key.
Hope that was helpful
Cheers
Luc
Dude, I am really really digging your portrait work. This is much fresher and more personality driven than the plain ol pose against the chainlink fence or brick wall of yesteryear. I’ts been a while since I visited, this time of year is busy but every time I just love watching the new stuff come out.
Hey Rene,
Thanks for the kind words, I’m having a lot of fun with these portraits and hope to squeeze in a number more by the end of the year. Hope you’re surviving the wedding season and can stop by again soon.