{"id":190,"date":"2008-09-28T14:07:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T21:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.art-sastra.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2008-12-24T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T04:24:07","slug":"dj-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/dj-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sosena and I went for our last shoot in the sneaker culture series and captured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djexcel.com\/\">DJ Excel<\/a> at his house in North Philly two weeks ago.  Since I just bought two speedlite flashes I was eager to experiment with my new equipment.  I have long been a fan of   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strobist.com\">David Hobby<\/a>, whose philosophy is to use small portables flashes. So inspired by his shots I set out to create some dramatic lighting with harsh shadows.  I used two lights, one behind the subject to create a rim light around his head and separate him from the background, as well a light up and to the right of me on a light stand.  With a snoot I&#8217;m able to tunnel the light of the second flash toward his head or upper part of his body. Perhaps I went a bit overboard with the lighting contrast but overall I&#8217;m pretty happy with the results.  Special thanks to Sancha who let me use her as a model to calibrate my lighting.<\/p>\n<p> [autoviewer id = &#8220;4&#8221; width = &#8220;900&#8221; height=&#8221;675&#8243;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sosena and I went for our last shoot in the sneaker culture series and captured DJ Excel at his house in North Philly two weeks ago. Since I just bought two speedlite flashes I was eager to experiment with my new equipment. I have long been a fan of David Hobby, whose philosophy is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}