Posts for: Bruce Roscoe
Sep 25, 2012 10:52:53 #
As a former electrical contractor I can tell you 120 volts in x 120 volts out is all there is. It sounds like they want to sell you something you don't need.
Sep 23, 2012 17:22:51 #
Thank you for your comment. I looked at your site--Wow youir are creative!
Bruce
Bruce
Sep 23, 2012 17:05:03 #
Enduring Moments - This is an image of my Navajo Friends on the reservation in Monument Valley. Susie Yazzie is the older lady she is 98 years old. Her daughter Effie is standing with her. I was on the reservation one day talking with her daughter and asked Effie is she had a portrait of her and her Mom. She said no. I asked if she would like one and she did. I drove back to the reservation about a week later with all my studio gear and a 2,500 watt generator. ( There is no power on the reservation or running water).
It's called Enduring Moments because when I took the proofs back to show them, this particular image made Susie's eyes light up, and she gave me that big Susie Yazzie smile like only she can. She past the image to her daughter like she was saying "here honey this is for you" Effie took the image looked at it like she was saying "oh Mom", that to me was an enduring moment that's how it got its name.
How this was captured--above their heads is a 3'X4' soft box with a double scrim set at f5.6 Camera left is a soft box with a double scrim set at f4.7 turned toward the Hogan (their home). On the ground in front of them is a strip light with a double scrim pointing up to get rid of the shadows under their eyes, camera right in the back is a mono light with barn doors pointed at the Hogan. I also have a reflector on camera left in the back giving a feel of depth to the image.
This image won best of show in Arizona at the ACCC but more important than that Effie has a portrait of her and her Mom that will remain in their family for life.
It's called Enduring Moments because when I took the proofs back to show them, this particular image made Susie's eyes light up, and she gave me that big Susie Yazzie smile like only she can. She past the image to her daughter like she was saying "here honey this is for you" Effie took the image looked at it like she was saying "oh Mom", that to me was an enduring moment that's how it got its name.
How this was captured--above their heads is a 3'X4' soft box with a double scrim set at f5.6 Camera left is a soft box with a double scrim set at f4.7 turned toward the Hogan (their home). On the ground in front of them is a strip light with a double scrim pointing up to get rid of the shadows under their eyes, camera right in the back is a mono light with barn doors pointed at the Hogan. I also have a reflector on camera left in the back giving a feel of depth to the image.
This image won best of show in Arizona at the ACCC but more important than that Effie has a portrait of her and her Mom that will remain in their family for life.
Sep 23, 2012 15:16:22 #
Sep 23, 2012 12:22:38 #
El Capitaine--This in another capture do in my studio. The background was a black seamless. The background light was set at f5.6 turned onto the background more in the direction of the way he is looking. El Capitaine my sitter was six feet from the background. For a hair light I used a 9"x36" strip light with both the upper and lower diffuser installed, set at f3.5. The key light is a Paul C. Buff beauty dish with a white interior with the sock installed set at f8 forty inches from the sitters face, camera right. To eliminate the show that would have been under his hat I used another 9"x36" strip light on the floor with an egg create installed set at f5.6. To complete the setup I used a Westcott silver reflector camera left for fill. This image is a contender on Digital Photo Pro. Who knows what will happen, the contest ends September 28th.
http://www.digitalphotopro.com/photo-contests/the-face/featured/contender-bruce-roscoe.html
http://www.digitalphotopro.com/photo-contests/the-face/featured/contender-bruce-roscoe.html
Sep 21, 2012 19:43:12 #
Thank you for your comment. Yes I do have images of elder woman. I haven't had much time to be involved lately but I will be sending images for you to review of elder woman. I just sent one over of a 100 year old man called "Now That Your 100"
Bruce
Bruce
Sep 21, 2012 19:37:40 #
This man is 100 years old! He was born April 26, 1912. He has a computer and is very good on it. He also works out 35 minutes every day.
How to capture this: First you need a 100 year old--that may be a problem. Next you need at least four lights. I consider a reflector a light. You also need a scrim I prefer a two stop. Westcott lighting has a great 6 and 1 reflector kit. It includes a 2 stop scrim. After doing a facial analyst I told my make-up artist which direction he would be facing. For the backdrop light I used a light set at f5.6. Camera right you have a key light set at f8. Make sure you set the light to give your sitter a modified loop. I placed a light on the floor to reach under the bible for detail. Since my sitter is lacking most of his hair the reflection of the key light had two much highlight, this is where the two stop comes in. Place the scrim in front of the key light and move it up so the bottom section of his face is lit but the head is toned down. to finish this lighting arrangement use your silver side of the reflector to fill in the shadows on camera left. Of course there is a lot more to this but this is a good Reader Digest version.
How to capture this: First you need a 100 year old--that may be a problem. Next you need at least four lights. I consider a reflector a light. You also need a scrim I prefer a two stop. Westcott lighting has a great 6 and 1 reflector kit. It includes a 2 stop scrim. After doing a facial analyst I told my make-up artist which direction he would be facing. For the backdrop light I used a light set at f5.6. Camera right you have a key light set at f8. Make sure you set the light to give your sitter a modified loop. I placed a light on the floor to reach under the bible for detail. Since my sitter is lacking most of his hair the reflection of the key light had two much highlight, this is where the two stop comes in. Place the scrim in front of the key light and move it up so the bottom section of his face is lit but the head is toned down. to finish this lighting arrangement use your silver side of the reflector to fill in the shadows on camera left. Of course there is a lot more to this but this is a good Reader Digest version.
Sep 17, 2012 14:22:42 #
Yes I have looked at his work and it's wonderful. I feel the masters of the past have so much still to offer. Thank you for your comment.
Aug 31, 2012 23:59:48 #
I thank everyone that had commented on my image. I have studied the works of Yousuf Karsh and Monty Zucker for years. I tried to find what I liked the best of both these famous photographers, then developed my style. I'm constantly trying to perfect my work. I have been shooting pro for years specializing in elder folks. I just turned 64
Aug 30, 2012 19:13:08 #
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Bruce Roscoe
After doing a careful facial analysis on my sitter (Bob), we determined to short-light him, building some drama into this image. Bob is sitting on a posing stool with his front leg crossed over his rear leg. This helped keep his posture straighter and the book he is holding in a more stable position.
We used a black seamless for background and positioned the background light 44" from the background. Turning on the modeling light, we directed the beam more toward camera left onto the background. Once the main light beam spot was set, we triggered the flash to set the f-stop at f5.6. This step was done to add more light in the direction Bob's looking verses the backside of his head. We turned off the background light and began to set the key light. One point is, be sure to adjust the height of the key light to set a nice catch light in your sitter's eyes. (I always use a small light for my key light.) The Mini Apollo works great, giving you total control.
We also made sure we gave Bob a nice modified loop on the side of his nose.(A little trick I learned from the well known wedding and portrait photographer Monty Zucker, who has since passed away.)
We set the key light at f8. The next light we worked with was the hair light. We just wanted a touch of light on his head and didn't want to add too much light taking away from his facial features. The setting was f3.5. The light was a 12"x 36" strip light. Between the strip light and Bob's head, on a C-stand, we covered most of that light with a black foam-core. (This helped to give just a kiss of light on his hair.) The next light was a 12"x 36" strip light set on the floor to show some detail on the cover of the book he is holding, along with detail in his hands, making sure we had some light spillover to give a touch of detail on his hair (camera right.) To finish off the lighting for this image on camera right, was a Westcott 6 & 1 illuminator reflector kit. Using the sliver side, we bounced light back into Bob.
Bruce Roscoe
After doing a careful facial analysis on my sitter (Bob), we determined to short-light him, building some drama into this image. Bob is sitting on a posing stool with his front leg crossed over his rear leg. This helped keep his posture straighter and the book he is holding in a more stable position.
We used a black seamless for background and positioned the background light 44" from the background. Turning on the modeling light, we directed the beam more toward camera left onto the background. Once the main light beam spot was set, we triggered the flash to set the f-stop at f5.6. This step was done to add more light in the direction Bob's looking verses the backside of his head. We turned off the background light and began to set the key light. One point is, be sure to adjust the height of the key light to set a nice catch light in your sitter's eyes. (I always use a small light for my key light.) The Mini Apollo works great, giving you total control.
We also made sure we gave Bob a nice modified loop on the side of his nose.(A little trick I learned from the well known wedding and portrait photographer Monty Zucker, who has since passed away.)
We set the key light at f8. The next light we worked with was the hair light. We just wanted a touch of light on his head and didn't want to add too much light taking away from his facial features. The setting was f3.5. The light was a 12"x 36" strip light. Between the strip light and Bob's head, on a C-stand, we covered most of that light with a black foam-core. (This helped to give just a kiss of light on his hair.) The next light was a 12"x 36" strip light set on the floor to show some detail on the cover of the book he is holding, along with detail in his hands, making sure we had some light spillover to give a touch of detail on his hair (camera right.) To finish off the lighting for this image on camera right, was a Westcott 6 & 1 illuminator reflector kit. Using the sliver side, we bounced light back into Bob.
Aug 20, 2012 12:22:31 #
Capturing this Image:
This image was taken in Tombstone at Boot Hill Cemetery following the Tombstone Trolley Ghost and Murder Tour with Parson George and Lee. The cemetery is one of the stops during the tour. At the time this image was taken the sun was setting and the cemetery was about to close. The trolley driver, Lee, who also posed as my model, got special permission to enter the cemetery. The store owner who told us we had only a few minutes to photograph Lee because they wanted to close for the night.
I explained to Lee how I wanted to make his image and how I would like him to pose. My wife, Elaine, helped me set up the equipment before entering the cemetery. We opened my Westcott 6 -in-1 reflector and took out the silver reflector. I installed my Canon 580 speed light on the camera mount and set it to minus one in the manual mode. A good starting point. This speed light allows the flash tube to be turned 90 degrees left or right or straight up.
We walked out through the general store into the cemetery. I found a grave that would work well for this capture. The grave had all the compositional elements necessary to accomplish my vision of this image, which I have titled "So Long Good Buddy." With the foreground composition there was a grave some distance away I also wanted in sharp focus.
I set the f- stop at f:13 with an ISO of 200, and a shutter speed of 125th. Elaine held the reflector at camera right a few feet from our model. By keeping the reflector close to the him, the reflected light wouldn't cause harsh shadows. I knew the inverse square law would come into play which states, "an object that is twice the distance from the point source of light will receive a quarter of the illumination." What this means to a photographer is if you move your subject from 10 feet to 20 feet away from your subject you will need four times more light to get the proper exposed. I could have opened the aperture two additional f-stops and kept the reflector at 10 feet, but the background wouldn't have been as sharp.
The next item to consider was how I want this image to look. What story did I want to tell? I felt if I "short lit" my subject, meaning more light on the side of his face away from the camera, it would bring more drama into the image, and allow more light in the background. This uses a well-known law of physics: the degree of incidence equals the degree of reflection. This means if I aim the head of my speed light at the reflector using a 45 degree angle, the light would bounce off the reflector at that angle resulting in a pleasing effect.
If the light hitting the subject lit too much of the broadside of his face, I would have had to adjust the angle the light bounced off the reflector. The first image looked good but the background was a little too dark. To correct this I dragged the shutter 1/60 to lighten it up more.
This image was taken in Tombstone at Boot Hill Cemetery following the Tombstone Trolley Ghost and Murder Tour with Parson George and Lee. The cemetery is one of the stops during the tour. At the time this image was taken the sun was setting and the cemetery was about to close. The trolley driver, Lee, who also posed as my model, got special permission to enter the cemetery. The store owner who told us we had only a few minutes to photograph Lee because they wanted to close for the night.
I explained to Lee how I wanted to make his image and how I would like him to pose. My wife, Elaine, helped me set up the equipment before entering the cemetery. We opened my Westcott 6 -in-1 reflector and took out the silver reflector. I installed my Canon 580 speed light on the camera mount and set it to minus one in the manual mode. A good starting point. This speed light allows the flash tube to be turned 90 degrees left or right or straight up.
We walked out through the general store into the cemetery. I found a grave that would work well for this capture. The grave had all the compositional elements necessary to accomplish my vision of this image, which I have titled "So Long Good Buddy." With the foreground composition there was a grave some distance away I also wanted in sharp focus.
I set the f- stop at f:13 with an ISO of 200, and a shutter speed of 125th. Elaine held the reflector at camera right a few feet from our model. By keeping the reflector close to the him, the reflected light wouldn't cause harsh shadows. I knew the inverse square law would come into play which states, "an object that is twice the distance from the point source of light will receive a quarter of the illumination." What this means to a photographer is if you move your subject from 10 feet to 20 feet away from your subject you will need four times more light to get the proper exposed. I could have opened the aperture two additional f-stops and kept the reflector at 10 feet, but the background wouldn't have been as sharp.
The next item to consider was how I want this image to look. What story did I want to tell? I felt if I "short lit" my subject, meaning more light on the side of his face away from the camera, it would bring more drama into the image, and allow more light in the background. This uses a well-known law of physics: the degree of incidence equals the degree of reflection. This means if I aim the head of my speed light at the reflector using a 45 degree angle, the light would bounce off the reflector at that angle resulting in a pleasing effect.
If the light hitting the subject lit too much of the broadside of his face, I would have had to adjust the angle the light bounced off the reflector. The first image looked good but the background was a little too dark. To correct this I dragged the shutter 1/60 to lighten it up more.
Aug 20, 2012 12:06:12 #
Aug 18, 2012 17:59:51 #
Hello Bill,
I'm a true believer in education. OJT is great to a point but the base is always going to be a great education. Like some of the other folks I took the NYIP course years ago. along with countless seminars. Still to this day I study everything I can get my hands on that applies to my craft. Yes I shot pro and have for years but that never stopped me from studying two hours a day 5 days a week. I have to get up early to do it but I feel I own it to my customers to give them the best I can.
I'm a true believer in education. OJT is great to a point but the base is always going to be a great education. Like some of the other folks I took the NYIP course years ago. along with countless seminars. Still to this day I study everything I can get my hands on that applies to my craft. Yes I shot pro and have for years but that never stopped me from studying two hours a day 5 days a week. I have to get up early to do it but I feel I own it to my customers to give them the best I can.
Aug 18, 2012 17:45:26 #
Aug 18, 2012 17:41:11 #
Philo is right about the dust going to and in Antelope. I use one of the rainsleeve's you can purchase on line. It only needs to be one of the inexpensive ones. The sleeves come two in a bag. You may consider Secrete Canyon in Page as well. It's less crowded and you can take your time doing it. You may want to call some of the outfitters in Page to see if they have offer tours to Secrete Canyon. Coming into Page there is a place called Little Cut that is a very nice sunrise shot, also Horseshoe Bend is another beautiful more destination.
The View is a very nice place to stay. Coondog's second image was taken on the right had side of the View. You don't have to go to far to get nice images. You can drive the loop road yourself it's about 10 miles. You don't need a guide for that. If you have any other questions you can call my cell today or tomorrow and I'll do my best to answer them. 928-713-9870
The View is a very nice place to stay. Coondog's second image was taken on the right had side of the View. You don't have to go to far to get nice images. You can drive the loop road yourself it's about 10 miles. You don't need a guide for that. If you have any other questions you can call my cell today or tomorrow and I'll do my best to answer them. 928-713-9870