Daily Photo: Vision

If you ever have the chance to learn about "key shifting" photography, do it. It's essentially the technique of using flash to overpower ambient light to darken the sky, or change the main light source to the flash itself. It's a basic way to get an "editorial" type look and many people use it extensively when shooting outdoors. I hope to provide more examples of it in the future. Some people call it "balancing flash with ambient"... like on the Strobist site: http://strobist.blogspot.ca/2006/03/lighting-101-balancing-flash-and.html

For now, I'll just show you an example of a photo I did for a class assignment when shooting with my good friend Kristy (who is now a pretty successful international wedding photographer by the way... so does that sorta make me famous?) This model was cool as a cat and brought his neat motorcycle swag down to the shoot. This was one of the first few times I played with keyshifting, while having the privilege of using the school's Profoto gear (oh what amazing gear it is). I was pretty darn happy with how this turned out... now I just need to get it picked up by a magazine. One day, one day.

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