Long Nights, Bright Lights…

This is Rebecca Hoffman, and she is an undergraduate researcher in the Food and Animal Product Research Center at Oklahoma State University.

I was on assignment for the O’Colly to shoot something to resembled a top ten agriculture school, and so my boss Todd Johnson helped me figure out that research would be a good thing to represent. Well low and behold, the story was actually about how the Ag Ed program was in the top ten so this photo never ran.

I really like the photo, and reason I really like it is because it shows that I have grown in my photo taking ten folds since I started.

This shot is taken with three lights, two gels, on a D3 with a manual focus lens. I could have never shot a shot like this at the end of the school year last year, but I have learned so much since June and I think this photo shows it.

There is one light with an orange gel pointed towards the gene extractor, there is a second lamp lighting up the background with a purple gel and a non gelled light pointed towards Rebecca. I also had Todd holding a white shirt out of the frame so that the light would bounce back onto the unfilled side of Rebecca’s face.

Sorry its been such a long time since I posted, but I’ll get back to posting its back on my to-do-list.

Mitch