X-mas card in the making, behind the scenes good ، X-mas card in the making, behind the scenes good
Thought I’d share a quick behind the scenes on my 2024 x-mas card. I shot it for a blog post that’s in the works, but I thought I’d share with OT first. For these ‘creative’ type shots, I often look to my kids for inspiration, and write down random notes as I watch them play and interact with each other. My original idea was to have one of them being a reindeer, and the other was Santa. Santa would be up in the air. As I was thinking on how to do it, I came up with another idea. This was my rough draft:
(yeah, I can’t draw worth shit on my mouse :mamoru:)
After I figured out what I wanted to achieve, I thought about how I wanted to light it. Being it was still in the afternoon and there was too much light, I really wanted to give the feel of night time. Gridded light was a must. After figuring out light, then I looked for composition. I already knew I was going to use the fireplace, but I couldn’t shoot at the angle I wanted. I settled for a simple head on shot of the fireplace. This is what it looked like with ambient light:
I then started setting up the lighting. I put a speedlite in the fireplace with a few warming gels:
Then I added my main lights, which was 2 gridded beauty dishes.
Here are a few pull back shots:
My camera angle:
There are 2 lights for the main, I wanted to light myself separately, independent of the girls.
Some sexy time shots, AKA testing light:
Final result:
Hope you enjoyed OT, and Merry Christmas!
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