{"id":894,"date":"2009-10-08T18:20:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2009-10-09T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T22:29:35","slug":"snoot-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/snoot-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoot Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Rosenthal lately has me shooting for <a href=\"http:\/\/happier.com\">happier.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s really nice to have shoots coming in regularly. They say the only way to get good at photography is practice, practice, practice and having someone call me on a regular basis holds me accountable to keep pushing that button with my finger. Thanks Andrew! <\/p>\n<p>This time he had me shoot Dr. Martin Seligman, one of the leading professors in the field of positive psychology. This is a portrait I took yesterday that I really liked. <\/p>\n<p>A snooted flash is placed at eye level about 3 meters to the right. Snooted means adding a tube to the front of your flash so the light comes out as a very narrow spot light. It&#8217;s zoomed in all the way at 105mm. When the flash is zoomed in all the way the light comes out in a very narrow beam and since all the light is concentrated we can set the power very low, 1\/64 if I remember correctly. The exposure is set at the usual 2 stops below ambient. The other light sources are fluorescent lighting inside and daylight coming in through the window from outside. I pulled down the blinds to create a nice textured background and I was hoping to cast some nice subtle shadows which actually worked. Note the shadow lines on the back of his head.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-895\" title=\"IMG_7337 (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_7337-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7337 (1)\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_7337-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_7337-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Rosenthal lately has me shooting for happier.com. It&#8217;s really nice to have shoots coming in regularly. They say the only way to get good at photography is practice, practice, practice and having someone call me on a regular basis holds me accountable to keep pushing that button with my finger. Thanks Andrew! This time [&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-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","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=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmysastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}