Bryan Regan Photography

Friday, June 22, 2007

CapStrat Print Magazine

Some shots for CapStrat for Print Magazine.

A profile on the school St. Marys for a local magazine. So my New Years resolution was to get away from flat lighting, put away the softboxes and umbrellas. I really into bare bulb and reflectors when shooting editorial people and 9 out of 10 time it works great. But not today ......... I have my main light 3/4 camera left and a back light 3/4 right behind the subject at + 1/2 stop to give seperation from the background. This dose not work well on a hot summer day when your subject is all dressed up and sweating. I spent more time retouching the images then shooting them.

Sinn City

A shot for the club Sinn City. Tungsten balance with fill flash.

The easy ones are the hard one #2

Some images from the "Restroom Sign" Process. I tried lighting the sign everywhich was you could think of. I ended up using a flash light and painting with light @ 12sec. exposure painting on the left and right to bring out the texture from the paper. This did cause some funky shadows on the people and letters. I ended up pathing them off and adding seperate layers for each and filling with an off white and messing with the opacity and modes.

The easy ones are the hard one #1

At first they wanted a gray restroom sign with teal letters. After 5 signs,6 cans of different spray paint, 2 hours of hand painting,staining a background and some test files the job was cancelled. So after some changes, my Clinical Trials "Restroom Sign" was back on this week. The client wanted a blue sign. Thank god I found 2 locally. The Hero "Closed For Cleaning" sign was out of proportion to the restroom sign. I think my assistant walked off with my giant Marks-A-Lot marker, a trip to the local Staples.... It only took @ 30 try's to get the right hand written sign. I set it up and started testing .... There was bleed through on the blue sign, so I had to pull it,mask it off, a trip to the hardware store to get another can of spray paint to paint the back. Got it back on set and shot it.