The Two Sides of Michael Sweeney

May 21, 2010 | Category: Lighting, Photography

Here are a couple from a last minute shoot of filmmaker/photographer Michael Sweeney from Everything to Nothing Studios. You should check out his work.

Specs: Nikon D3, 35-70mm 2.8. 1/125th at F/13, ISO 200. I stopped down so much to get some nice diffraction spikes from the sun. WB was set to overcast for a bit more warmth. I decided to leave the lens flare to add to the “bright” feel. For the main light, I used an Elinchrom Ranger AS with an A head shooting at full power through a varistar brolly box to camera left. The wind can be thanked for newly dented umbrella in the setup shot

Specs: Nikon D3, 17-35mm 2.8. 1/200th at F/9, ISO 200. For the main light, I used an Elinchrom Ranger AS with an A head shooting through a varistar brolly box to camera right. I also used a couple of gridded Q-flashes (one to light the foreground slightly and one out side of the frame to camera left as a rim).

These were trigger by Elinchrom skyports. Both photos are 99% processed in Lightroom with minimal Photoshop. See setup shots for more details.

Tags: commercial, Dan Newton, Elinchrom Ranger, Everything to Nothing, Films, Lighting, Mike Sweeney, photographer, Photography, portrait, quantum q-flash, Speed AS, strobist, varistar

3 Comments

michael sweeney
on May 21st, 2010
1
i do have other sides to me, one with color. thanks dan, GREAT JOB!
cale
on May 21st, 2010
2
Dan, awesome job! The lighting looks great, I’ve been meaning to start experimenting with lighting. Really great shots!

Cale
Daryl
on June 10th, 2010
3
Hey man,
I’d just like to say thanks for including many of your production set-up photos and lighting set-ups. As a hobbyist photographer myself I always enjoy seeing how people achieve the end result.
Cheers!