Performance Cycle 2008 Calendar
Sorry folks, I have been remiss in posting updates to my Intelephoto blog. Ride Oklahoma Magazine, one of my new ventures last year, has kept me quite busy instead. Not to mention a 3 week vacation to Australia, lots of photo shoots, the holidays, bla bla bla. You know what they say about excuses!
Last fall I spent quite a bit of time and energy putting together a 2008 calendar for Performance Cycle in Bethany, OK. The owner Gerald Tims has dozens of old motorcycles in his collection and we decided to put together a calendar of pretty girls and his old motorcycles. But instead of the "girl in a bikini on a bike" theme, I wanted to do something a bit more classy. Of course our goal is to highlight the bikes, and the girls are props to make the bike look even better. I will be posting pictures from the calendar over the next few weeks and explaining briefly how we came up with the concept and the photos. My daughter Emily Murray was instrumental in most of the photos and works with me as the designer for the magazine and creative director for many of our photo shoots.
The photo above was taken at Farmers Market in downtown OKC. I had scouted out the location the day before and invited Sharis Fajardo, the model, in for the shoot. Gerald sent an employee with the bike and we set up early in the morning for the shoot. We kept the lighting fairly simple on this one - just a single Nikon SB-800 fired into an umbrella to camera right, behind the bike The natural light was great so no need for extensive lighting. Just use what was available and enhance it just a bit. Someone asked me recently how many lights do I normally use for a photograph. My answer is "however many it takes". I have done shots with 10 lights and shots with one or no lights. I normally try to find and take advantage of existing light and then use my strobes to just enhance that light to create the mood I am looking for. I like how this turned out and Sharis is looking very good.
Last fall I spent quite a bit of time and energy putting together a 2008 calendar for Performance Cycle in Bethany, OK. The owner Gerald Tims has dozens of old motorcycles in his collection and we decided to put together a calendar of pretty girls and his old motorcycles. But instead of the "girl in a bikini on a bike" theme, I wanted to do something a bit more classy. Of course our goal is to highlight the bikes, and the girls are props to make the bike look even better. I will be posting pictures from the calendar over the next few weeks and explaining briefly how we came up with the concept and the photos. My daughter Emily Murray was instrumental in most of the photos and works with me as the designer for the magazine and creative director for many of our photo shoots.
The photo above was taken at Farmers Market in downtown OKC. I had scouted out the location the day before and invited Sharis Fajardo, the model, in for the shoot. Gerald sent an employee with the bike and we set up early in the morning for the shoot. We kept the lighting fairly simple on this one - just a single Nikon SB-800 fired into an umbrella to camera right, behind the bike The natural light was great so no need for extensive lighting. Just use what was available and enhance it just a bit. Someone asked me recently how many lights do I normally use for a photograph. My answer is "however many it takes". I have done shots with 10 lights and shots with one or no lights. I normally try to find and take advantage of existing light and then use my strobes to just enhance that light to create the mood I am looking for. I like how this turned out and Sharis is looking very good.
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