Fashion Shoot Behind the Scenes Video
November 3rd, 2009I recently was hired to shoot for a clothing line up in this cool club called Elevate in Downtown LA. Drew Maw a cinematographer is doing a documentary on me and made this incredible video with his Canon 7D !
Fashion Shoot For Gods Daughter Clothing from Jason Christopher on Vimeo.
Behind the scenes video shot by Drew Maw. This was a photo shoot for a new clothing line called Gods Daughter.
Tags: Canon, canon 7d, cinematographer, clothing, clothing line, fashion, fashion shoot, photo shoot, video
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
That’s what I’m talking about! Kick a*@!
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November 3rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Nice video. Any out takes that you can post?
Looks like pretty straight forward lighting, did you have issues with reflections from the light? Looks like both scenes had reflective backgrounds which I’m sure added to the challenge.
Thanks for sharing,
Jeff
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Jason Christopher Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Hi Jeff, thank you. Are you asking if me to post actual photos from the shoot ? I have no problem with that. Yes the lighting was pretty straight forward for me. It depends on the level of experience each photographer is at. For some this lighting could be very difficult. I am going to add to the post and describe how I lit each scene. Actually It would be better to make a post for each photo now that I think about it. And you are correct, reflections added to the challenge. Thank you for commenting. Please explore the rest of my blog. And remember I do offer private one on one photography workshops for every level of photographer.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
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November 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Wow, awesome footage! Very rad!
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Jason Christopher Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Thank you Jaime ! Ya I really digg it. Drew Maw is the one who shot it with his 7D !
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November 4th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Curious what the camera support system you were using was, it didn’t look like a standard ballhead..
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Jason Christopher Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Just a 3 way head from Bogen.
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November 5th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Jason,
I love these behind the scene videos. This will bring your future clients into your world as the professional photographer you are. Your photos sell you but watching you work with the model, your staff makes them see your a true pro.
Dan Shaw
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Jason Christopher Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Hey Dan !! Thank you so much ! I have more videos coming soon.
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November 5th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Thanks Christopher!
It would be great if you posted final images along with the associated light setup.
Yeah, I think I covered the all your blogs. I’ve been shooting for a bit now and have studio equipment etc, but am at the point where I need to get/hire agency quality models, MUA, Hair and Wardrobe artist to put together a portfolio of images to go to agencies with. I guess its my last hurdle in way, but for some reason a daunting one.
Appreciate your contribution to the community!
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Jason Christopher Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Hi Jeffn, as a matter of fact I am going to post images and explain how they were created. Just walk into an agency and ask to shoot their new faces. That is how you start. From there you move up to hiring their models for jobs
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November 5th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I was checking out the video … and noticed (especially after our telecon) you are using Speedotron’s there … is that a fav light rig of yours?
The speedotron’s looked like that had a comparable price to the AB series heads.
anyway-
like this kind of videocast …
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Jason Christopher Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Hi Robert,
Speedotrons are not my favorite, Profoto and Broncolor are my favs but in this case the lighting budget was not huge so I rented Speedos. They are still very good strobes. I think you might be wrong about the price of the Speedos to Alien Bees. Speedos are not inexpensive.
Thank you for the compliment and work on getting out here for a workshop.
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November 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
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November 27th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
loved this!
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Jason Christopher Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Thank you very much Lisa !
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December 9th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Hey Jason,
another question. I was watching the video and thinking if I was doing this job, what would the technical challenges be?
One question I had was when the shoot progressed and the ambient light was falling, giving a fantastic city dusk/night scene, you had a choice of dragging the shutter to hold the ambient, or up the iso so as to keep a higher shutter speed with the sacrifice of shooting at the higher iso.
Would love to hear your thoughts and approach to this.
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jason Christopher Reply:
December 12th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Hi Jeff, first I want to apologize for such a late reply. I had some technical issues with my blog and had to get them fixed.
So your question is very good. I use the 5D Mark 2 therefore using a high ISO is not a problem at all. As a matter of fact, even when shooting at ISO 1600 I have to add grain in post if I am going for that grainy look ! It’s amazing.
Looking at the shot of the model standing with the orange sunset behind her I lost the ambient light and raised my ISO to 400 but I still had to shoot at 1/5 of a second which obviously is very slow. I asked the model to find her pose and then not move at all until I fired. Why didn’t I shoot at let’s say ISO 1600 thus allowing me to shoot at a faster shutter speed ? There are two reasons.
1. The background of the city buildings was basically all black except for the street lights, car lights and the lights in the buildings. So with so much black in your frame, using a high ISO IS going to give you too much digital noise/ grain.
2. I also wanted to capture that beautiful orange sunset color and the city lights. Well in order to capture that orange sunset and also capture the city lights you need to use a high aperture (small) and a slow shutter speed.
So my settings were ISO 400, Shutter speed 1/5th and aperture of f /8 . I used f/8 because I wanted the background to pop but not too much. At the same time I didn’t want to totally blur out the background. So I decided f/8 was a good split.
Have you noticed I haven’t even mentioned the clothes ? If you want to be a working photographer you MUST MUST realize that it’s about the clothes ! The shirts were also dark. So I didn’t want so much digital noise that would make the dark shirts look like crap therefore not being usable. So all you potential clients out there and of course photographers listen up. There are many many many circumstances a photographer must consider before that shutter is even touched. It’s not easy but if you do your homework and learn your fundamentals you will succeed.
I hope that answered your question Jeff. If need more please don’t hesitate to ask.
These are things I teach in my photography workshops as well as many other aspects of photography.
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