Befriending the light.

Several weeks ago I had coffee & conversation with Rob from Rob Hammer Photography. We talked about making it in these hard times. Lately Rob's been shooting a lot for Denver Magazine. Go Rob!



Tonight we hung out at his place drank some PBR and worked on lighting techniques. Rob has a personal project of goofy faces. So I lent my goatee & look to the project.

I in turn got to shot rob on his white seamless & started using some of the light modifiers and crazy ideas I've had running through my noodle.



Here I used my DarkSphere (a lightsphere wrapped in Cinefoil with a 20 degree grid) as a spot. Plus Rob had a nice cardboard snoot that only lit his eyes.

Rob & Emily are great people & I appreciate them opening up their home & Rob sharing his equipment with me.

My DarkSphere

Recently Zach wrote up a post about the group photo he took at GPP. He also posted about how he altered his Lightsphere to become what he calls the "DarkSphere".



This got me thinking and I quickly looked into finding the grids that would work for my lightsphere. I found them here at BH. Then I wrapped some Cinefoil around it. Then with a small bungee cord I strapped it to my SB-26 and off I went.



Here's what it looks like with the Cinefoil half way unrolled.





Here's the shots I made with it. (I also used a small snoot to high lite the eyes.).