Uploads from Joshua Cripps, tagged strobist, with geodata

Afloat

nobody@flickr.com (Joshua Cripps) — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:35:31 -0700

One of the limitations of landscape photography is its expectation of reality. You can't take a lake photo, add an exploding volcano in the background, a unicorn prancing along its shores, a flaming sunrise, and still reasonably call it a photo. But in portrait photography, as I'm discovering, the same limitations just don't exist. Any scene I want to create, or any emotion I want to explore, I can. Have a girl riding in a hot air balloon above the clouds at sunrise, on a quest for adventure? No expectation of reality here. It's an amazingly liberating way of making images.

Thanks for looking, and check out some behind the scenes images below.

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Strobist: LumoPro LP 160 at 1/4 power through LumiQuest LTP Softbox, high camera left to mimic the sunlight.

Tools of the Trade

nobody@flickr.com (Joshua Cripps) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:10:29 -0800

Joshua Cripps posted a photo:

Better Big on Black!

Last Sunday Diego Tabango and I were hired to shoot film composer Marlon Espino at his recording studio in Carmel. After Marlon sent us some snapshots of the studio I immediately got the idea to do a shot like this where all the cool elements of the studio were being lit up with strobes. And of course your ideas change as soon as they meet reality but in the end I'm really happy with how close this came to my original vision.

Strobist info: Einstein through beauty dish, above camera on axis for key light. Gridded soft box behind Marlon camera left for rim. Bare strobe camera right for rim. Then 16 individual blasts from a bare strobe on a paint pole with Diego VALing for me on all the elements in the background. Layers combined using "Lighten" blend mode and simple layer masking.

Processing involved some fill light, curves layer for contrast, some dodging of the shadows, and a Nik Color Efex Detail Extractor layer to pull out the the richness in the studio.

Thanks for looking!

~Josh

Some Assembly Required

nobody@flickr.com (Joshua Cripps) — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:05:29 -0700

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Strobist info:
LumoPro 160 at 1/8 power above, just camera right thru LumoPro softbox LTP
LumoPro 160 at 1/8 power with deep blue gel fired onto white wall
Vivitar 285 at 1/16 power deep camera left for rim

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Angelina Eat Your Heart Out

nobody@flickr.com (Joshua Cripps) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:29:59 -0700

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Please view large.

The strobing fun continues! Here's my friend Amanda out in a secret nook she knew of in Nisene Marks Forest.

Strobist: LumoPro LP160 @ 1/4 power through LTP softbox high camera right. LumoPro LP160 behind model for rim.

Photoshop: Warm tones via a parchment paper texture, blending mode set to overlay, opacity dialed way down. Map textures via some cool old map I found online, duplicated, blending modes set to overlay and normal respectively, opacity dialed down. Handheld light is a steripen water sterilizer, glow added via a layer painted in with white, layer style set to outer glow.

Kie, Light Painter

nobody@flickr.com (Joshua Cripps) — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:09:37 -0700

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This is Kie, a recent grad of UCSC with a Theater major, emphasis on lighting design. During our very first meeting she told me about how much she loves to use light to paint a scene. I didn't realize she meant it literally.

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Strobist: Key is a LumoPro LP160 @ 1/4 power through an LTP softbox, high up camera left on a paint pole, VAL'ed by Diego Foto. Rim via a slaved, bare LP160 at 1/8 (?) power camera right 20 feet behind the model.

Thanks for looking!

It's a hard knock life...

nobody@flickr.com (Joshua Cripps) — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:27:27 -0700

Joshua Cripps posted a photo:

...for seascape photographers in the summer in Santa Cruz. A high pressure front moves in and creates the ever-feared marine layer: a thick fog bank which obscures and eliminates all color from the sky. Not that there are any clouds in the sky anyway. :(

So what to do when nature isn't providing the light I crave? Simple: start creating my own light.

Diego "strobin' it" Tabango and I have been taking to the streets of Santa Cruz, armed with an array of small flashes and light modifiers, working on our lighting, and shooting some sweet portraits.

Here's one of Diego thuggin' it up in our shoot in some random alley a week ago. Totally different track than what I normally shoot, but tons of fun all the same!

Please view large to remove excessive flickr-induced sharpening

Strobist: LumoPro 160@ 1/4 power thru 28" Apollo softbox in front of model camera left. Vivitar 285@1/16 power splashed onto red alley.

Thanks for looking,

~Josh

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