C-stand

Century stand. By their legs design, sandbags are easier to use and allows you to place stands closer to each other. They are also very heavy, which is good for stability but for not portability.

Stand with wheels would be better for studio, but not for location. By some setup photos, I have seen people using these even in water. Should be durable stands, let's see..

Grid as gobo

Yet another use for softbox grids. Create interesting shapes to the background by using grid as gobo.

Black eyes

Last post from this year. 2011 was interesting but turbulent year and it also meant resurrection for this blog with lots of new posts. Based on google statistics some people were also reading it so I try to keep posting here more stuff always when time for that. Happy New Year 2012!

Jar of fireflies

We had good outdoor location scouted but as the weather was really bad and raining whole day, all the photos from this shoot were done inside. Great that the Saara had access to this building which provided selection of indoor backgrounds to use in photos. More photos after the jump.

Gwendolyne

 Rainy & dark December, so time for another set of photos from autumn.

Jodie

This photo was taken at the early November when autumn was switching to winter but still some leaves left in the ground to give color. I have been recently trying to use just the ambient light for outdoor photos. It makes working faster as you can just focus on taking photos and not carrying or setting up lights. Colder the weather gets, less time you want to spend with tweaking the lights. For this photo ISO was pushed to 400 and VR from 70-200mm helped to keep the shot sharp.

Lens statistics

It was interesting to check Lightroom lens metadata statistics from the main catalog. By looking just the numbers, 24-70mm/f2.8 is my most used lens with over 11000 photos in the catalog. 50mm/f1.8 comes really close by having only 1000+ shots less taken with it. For me, surprising parts were the big amount of photos taken with super wide angle lens (Sigma 10-20mm) and that I have taken almost as many photos with 35mm/f2 than with 50mm/f1.8.

Photos in 0mm category are from MF lenses or corrupted images where camera lens info was lost from file. Yes, that can happen when memory card gets corrupted.

While I think lenses are not that critical for making the images, I like to test them. Especially when there is opportunity to test some special gear like MC ARAX 35mm/f2 or long telephoto lenses. I own only few of the lenses in the list and by looking statistics I could make most of my images just with 24-70mm zoom and one longer prime.