Robert Seale: Life in the Fast Lane
Sports portrait specialist Robert Seale had four whole minutes to shoot this portrait of cycling deity Lance Armstrong in the basement of an Austin, TX bike shop.Which begs the question: "What's he gonna do with all of that spare time when he finishes early?"
Why, shoot three more setups, of course.
Check out Robert's very RSS-worthy blog for the speed-lighting (heh) walk-thru, and lots of other cool stuff.
Top notch.
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Posted at 12:00 AM.
12 Comments:
That's beautiful. Not really into cycling, but Armstrong has a great face. I esp. like the second one where he looks a bit more alive...
... looks a little blanched to me
The dude totally stole my shadow concept from a while back.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1319/1385322631_51a4bbf60d_o.jpg
I hate it when pro's rip us newbs off.
Kind regards
DWBell
(Yeah - I am kidding, of course)
I love that last photo - the one with the bicycle shadow.
Great portrait; however, I thought the concept of the 'Strobist' site was the possibilities of can be achieved with small strobes....
@Jagentis-
Nope. While small strobes are the easiest way for people to get into lighting, it would be ridiculously dogmatic to exclude the use of other types of equipment on a lighting site.
If you are using small lights (as are most of the readers of this site) try to interpolate how this kind of thing to what can be done with your gear. It's easy, and it is how you learn without being restricted to literal examples using only your own gear.
:)
It was impressive to see the results of a 4 minute shoot. Obviously preparation counts (duh!) and maybe that's the real point - regardless of whether you use small stobes or large lights.
I also found the link to the 2008 ASMP and the 19 other photographers worthy.
Impressive number of setups, especially for that early in the morning. Mr. Seale must have badass assistants.
Fantastic!
Such a diversity achieved in such a short timeframe is only possible if you are extremely comfortable in your capablilities and gear... thus: experience is key!
I myself make portraits of pro-cyclists and I usualy get about 7 seconds with each rider... no kidding!
So I make sure my lighting-set-up is ready; therefore I use a VAL
as used here: http://tinyurl.com/mqo8cr
More than a year ago, I made a portrait with a very similar sitting.
"T," you linked to a private photos there...
;)
What is the light setup on this portrait ? sorry if it is described somewhere and I missed it
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