a few portraits of my students...

I teach lighting to beginning photography students at the Creative Circus in Atlanta. Our last class I had the students photograph each other around my studio using homemade continuous lighting sources. We used household fluorescent and halogen lights purchased at hardware stores along with flashlights, LEDs, and even a rope light used for landscaping. Here are a few portraits of my students that I made to illustrate different portrait lighting techniques.

This stylish young lad is Rick, photographed outside at night illuminated by a light inside my studio. This was a good illustration of use of a single light and the key triangle. Thanks Rembrandt!

This is Channel photographed against my studio roll up door. She always looks great even when she's mad at me! Here I'm trying to illustrate the use of simple, compelling backgrounds.