Office Space Rock Stars

See it bigger here! I taught my first all-day workshop on Saturday! It was a huge hit, with 35 photographers attending (the maximum I allowed), and reviews are good! One of my mantras that I shared with the group is to keep pushing yourself until there is a decent possibility you might fail — if all of your shots are pretty good, you’re not expanding yourself. (Of course, this has to be at times where you are safe to fail on a few frames. The first kiss is probably not the best place for it). So I let the group watch as I decided to give myself a challenge: I would find the most boring, ugly place around and take photos right there. So I found a featureless office hallway with the ugliest green fluorescent lighting you’ve ever seen. The only thing it had going for it was the natural perspective of a hallway. So I took my awesome couple and sat them down, so that we could see that perspective better, and I lit them with the Lowel ID light at left, a very warm, tungsten light. With white balance correction, that turned the ambient from a horrible puke-green to a kind of funky and cool deep turquoise, a nice contrast to her red shirt, and of course this is kind of a funky couple. --------- Ryan Brenizer Photography Blog. Photography tips, wedding photos, events and portraits from New York City and beyond