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Five New Mexico football players took a knee during national anthem performance

Five New Mexico football players took a knee during national anthem performance

The news centering on football players taking a knee during the national anthem has largely been an issue playing out in the NFL but has trickled down to the high school level. College football tends to stay out of the issue since most pregame ceremonies occur with college football players in the locker room. But because weather wiped out the typical pregame pomp and circumstance prior to…

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Creating a Simple Portrait

Creating a Simple Portrait

Creating dynamic portraits with only two lights

  The accent light is a Lencarta SmartFlash 200Ws head, firing at ¼ output through a 60×60 softbox frame left, and just beyond the distance of the subject. It needed to be at a ¼ output due to the distance between the light head and the subject being greater than the usual “just outside the frame”, to reduce any chance of flare from the softbox.

It…

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The Bridal Rain Portrait

The Bridal Rain Portrait

Making the most of the English weather

This image was taken at a wedding on the 14th November 2015, and the weather was particularly foul.

My main aim was to ensure I lit as much rain as possible, and also provide an interesting composition for the two girls. Behind the girls at a height of around four feet, there’s a Lencarta Atom 360Ws. This was married to the dedicated beauty dish but…

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