I  spent this past weekend with a great photographer, an author and educator, Kevin Ames.  If you are a photographer, you will want to look at his blog and follow along with all that he has going on.  Kevin is a solid technician and totally understands lighting.  Based in Atlanta, he stays busy shooting all over the place for a long list of “big time” clients.

We had the opportunity to work with two beautiful and talented models for our Saturday class.  We also had two distinctly different lighting set ups.  One high key set that was lit with Profoto lighting.  On our low key set we  used Elinchrom’s, including my personal favorite the Octabank.  Kevin never leaves home without his Dynalites, and he showed us how to use their power packs to get some great results! (their ring light was killer)

I have to say a huge thank you to Dave Metz from Sigma and Brett Wells our Profoto rep., it wouldn’t have happened without their help and support.  We all worked together to make this one of the coolest classes we have offered at Dury’s Classroom!

Check out this portrait of our beautiful model Melodie.  Look at the wonderful lighting on her face and huge catch lights in her eyes!

The lighting here is one Elinchrom Octabank camera right, a reflector left, two strip lights camera left giving the separation light on her left side and a gridded background light.  I really like this look a lot.  In fact, I asked Kevin to photograph my new head shot  on this set.  He said he is doing all he can with the file to make me look acceptable.  Thanks Kevin. 

Here’s Kevin behind the camera working his magic. (As seen from the model’s perspective)

So much more to add, but I didn’t want to wait to long before getting this posted.  Hopefully I’ll receive some class images to share with you all.  I was too busy helping to do much shooting, but it was a great weekend and I can’t wait till we get to work together again.  We are talking about another project that will be super cool if we can pull it off!  More to come on that…