This is a popular lighting look that seems to be saturating the photography world lately. It's been a bit of a mini-quest (kinda like a crusade but with much less bloodshed) for me to discover how this look is done. I think we're on the right track. We shot these as the sun went down behind our office. Kudos to Lyn and her masterful camera work. I know, I know... it's a bit pretentious constantly posting photos of ones self, but we're short on models. So come on all y'all modeling folk. Give us a call. We'd be happy to shoot you.

Lyn and I have been playing around with some off-camera flash setups. This is a Nikon SB-24 bounced off a white wall in our office.

Here's another clip from our Lake Siskyou shoot. We had already wrapped but I kept rolling to document our "production crew." When I went to edit the spot together I found this clip of Pete that fit perfectly into the opening of the commercial. Of course, Pete was not planning on being on camera hence the "Jesus Shaves" t-shirt. Little bit of post work and now Pete loves the Northstate. It's not a perfect track, but it's pretty close.

PS Can any of you html hounds tell me how to get rid of the annoying black box around my embedded video file?

Here's a short clip from a recent shoot up at Lake Siskyou. The original plan was to have Tuck swing off a rope and into the lake (I had scoped out a great rope swing a few weeks earlier). Problem was, when we got there, the rope swing had been taken down. We spent over an hour looking for another swing and finally told Tucker to "Go jump in a lake!" And he did. And I filmed. We got this shot literally in the last 2 minutes of sunlight. Forget golden-hour - this was golden-MINUTE lighting. I know the "flipped" nature of the motion is kind of cliche, but I thought the splash looked really cool.
-Jes

Labor Day weekend at the coast. Click for pics.