Lights. Start.. Action…

I’m clicking pictures at least for 2 years now.. Its still a hobby and always wanted to experiment the Studio Lights and technicalities involved. Just calling this form of photography, an applied photography, as most of these studio pictures were framed in minds of Creative Directors of advertising agencies or the Clients and the photographer’s job was to apply the technicalities and provide the solution, as required.

Thought I’m more, a people photographer, interested in documentation and street life, today went to a studio to do some pictures under controlled light conditions. Thanks to Raghu(Redbull) / Manish for organising this successful shoot and special thanks to Ram/Yogesh/Arul as well, for joining us.

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We hired the studio for the whole day, reached the place 10.30am and it took half an hour more to settle down. As usual we started with my face in the frame (guess.. these guys wont stop experimenting with monkeys first) posing for some portraits.. then, Manish and Raghu sitting as models. The Studio was equipped with three colored screens (red/green and black) apart from the white wall, and five different light sources, including the one hanging from top.

We spent most of our time in the first half of the day, understanding the lights and types of light sources. Then, some time clicking frames with varied color backgrounds and changing the position of lights. it was FUN, when Arul, raghu, manish and I, shooting some portraits with a 50mm and Ram with his 10-20mm, doing some craziest/weird close ups. I wont say, we wasted time doing that, but, it was a great learning experience. Deepika joined us, just a while, before lunch time and we escaped to Upahara Dharshan for Lunch.

The second half was very productive, when we got a plan in place and decided what we wanted to achieve. Thanks to our lighting assistant Raghu (this Raghu is working in the studio) for his valuable suggestions and support. We did some more portraits and group shots with spot lighting etc, before we take up the product shoot.

Arul came with a wine glass and a miniature metal car. Incidentally, it helped us to do some “Dont Drink and Drive” pics with all crazy light settings. Raghu’s D70s and Rams brand new 40D were our next set of products, which gave us some confidence, when we all loved the “Camera” frames on the LCD screen. We spoke some Gyan and clicked some More Portraits, before we shook hands and said BYE.

Overall, it was a great learning experience, in fact a different type of learning. I must confess, it doesnt INTEREST me, as much as STREET LIFE does. But, every form of photography has got its own Pros and Cons. So NO ARGUMENTS. NO BANDHS and NO THROWING STONES. I’m sure I wanna do couple of more sessions with the Studio Lights at least to have a feel of IT.

Thanks again team for making it HAPPEN. Share your thoughts. More pictures…

~ peevee.