After lots of badgering my son finally succumbed to my constant badgering about a photo session. He brought with him some ideas of his own and we set about trying to capture some nice images.

Moody Portraits

After a while of trying and failing to find a shot he was happy with, we decided to get creative and add some coloured gels to the flash heads. This image was captured at 1/200 sec at f18 and ISO31 with three studio flash heads, one with a blue filter, one with a red filter and the third shot behind my son to create a separation from the black studio background.

Hopefully you can see how well the red and blue work with his chequered shirt and the way the colours fall on the two sides of his face to create a really moody shot.

Moody Portraits

Now we were getting somewhere, with one good image under our belts, we were free to experiment further, and a few smiles started to creep in, albeit they were sometimes a little sinister in nature!

Moody Portraits

The final shot in this session was with his guitar and with the use of a yellow light reflecting off the backdrop and still using the red and blue lamps at approximately 45 degrees to the left and right of the camera, we managed to create this great action shot.

Taken at 1/250 sec at f6.3 and ISO64