RICH LEGG
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
I'm a photographer working in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is where I share my work on a regular basis.
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My daughters' wanted to get some images of themselves and a few friends in their costumes before heading out for tonight's activities, so they dropped by the studio for a bit this afternoon. It was fun to create lighting setups to accentuate their looks.
Canon 5D, Canon 24-105 f/4L lens - 1/100 second, f/4, ISO 100
My most recent stock photo shoot was a revisit to a previously used theme. Regular readers to this blog will recall that back in May I did a shoot featured around a White Bedroom set that we created in the studio (original blog post here). The series of images that I created in that session have sold reasonably well in my stock portfolio. For a background, I used white seamless for the original shoot. Now that I've repainted a portion of the studio with white walls, I decided to redo the shoot with the more natural looking background.
Just like last time, I set up a bedroom in the studio. In addition to the bed and nightstand, I added a desk to the mix this time. This gave me some more options on what to shoot.
With Kylee as the model, we created a nice collection of images to add to my sales portfolio. I like the look of the resulting images with the more natural looking background compared to the original seamless background. The added depth adds quite a bit to the shots.
Watch for the images appearing soon in my iStock portfolio.
Labels: stock
Labels: stock
I spent Saturday morning in the studio with six young models. The theme for the shoot was a Child's Birthday Party. I set up a corner of the studio to recreate a home decorated for the party.
For lighting, I essentially flooded the area with a nice soft light provided by three softboxes. This was my first "real" shoot on the newly painted white walls and I'm pleased with how it turned out.
With the six models, their accompanying parents and Michelle assisting me - we had a full house. Working with children is a lot of fun and the party theme seemed to kick that up a notch higher than usual. All of the models did an exceptional job. Being familiar with the subject really helps and I had worked with five of the six kids on earlier shoots.
For the final few shots, I enlisted a few family members to help throw confetti and we had a real celebration. I'll probably be finding remnants of this shot in the corner of the studio for several months.
Watch for the images to making their appearance in my stock portfolio soon.
I was doing some images of Aspen in the studio to use in an advertisement for her rock climbing team. When we were almost finished, she offered to show me her Monkey Face. It was pretty funny, so I thought I'd share it here.
Canon 5D, Canon 24-105 f/4L lens - 1/125 second, f/8, ISO 100
One thing that I've learned in having my own studio to shoot in is that it is constantly in a state of change. I always seem to be rearranging and altering things based upon what I'm currently photographing.
For my stock work, I find that I'm wanting to get away from shooting on seamless paper more and more. I like creating "life-like" scenes and paper backdrops deter from this.
I have shot a few successful images on the previous "brown-ish" walls left over from the office that used to be in the space (here's an example), but the color just wasn't as versatile as I wanted. So this morning I took off my photographer hat and put on my painter hat and got to it.
I now have about 1/4 of my small studio space with white walls to shoot against. This will come in handy for the first shoot on them this Saturday - a stock session recreating a child's birthday party.
Canon 5D, Canon 24-105 f/4L lens - 1/80 second, f/10, ISO 100
Labels: studio
Here's a quick and easy tip that could pay for itself a thousand times over.
While at a recent Photwalking Utah event, I noticed that photographer Ann Torrence had a small ID tag attached to her camera. When I asked her about it, she told me that it was a tag designed to put the owner information on pet collars in case the animal is lost. I immediately thought "What a great idea!".
I made a trip to my local PETCO store and used their machine to have a tag made for each of my cameras. I opted for the smallest version (about the size of a penny) and it is completely out of the way on the camera body. The total cost to label my gear: $12.
Now, let's just hope that if my camera is ever lost that the person who finds it is honest (fingers crossed).
Labels: tutorial
The next Photowalking Utah event is scheduled for November 1st. The group will be heading out to Antelope Island. Here's a bit of info from photowalkingutah.com:
The November 2008 Photowalking Utah event will be held at the Antelope Island State Park in Syracuse Utah on November 1st. Antelope Island is home to one of the largest and oldest publicly owned bison herds in the United States. The Bison will be corralled into pens starting Oct 22nd and then will receive their health checkups starting October 31st.
The photowalk will be held at the Buffalo Pens where the rangers will be giving the bison their health checks. This is a great opportunity to get up close to the Bison and hopefully get some great photos. We can then proceed to Garr Ranch when we are finished at the pens.
Labels: photowalking
I'm in Southern Utah for a weekend rock climbing trip with the family and some friends. Before heading out to the walls and going off the grid for a few days, I thought I'd post an image that fits in with the activities.
This image was taken as part of a series I did recently for Michelle to use on her blog. Photographing in the rock climbing gym can be a bit tricky because the existing lighting is pretty 'blah' and using strobes isn't really much of an option. For this shot I found a spot on the lead climbing wall that had sunlight hitting it from an overhead window and had the climber get into that area while I stood on the top of a 10' ladder. The sunlight created a rather hard shadow which I later softened with a fill-light, but I kind of like it in this capture.
Have a great weekend!
After considerable work by many members of Photowalking Utah, we are pleased to have launched the new PhotowalkingUtah.com website this morning. Special thanks have to go to group member Jeremy Hall who took the lead in designing the new site. Thanks man!
Please visit the site today at http://photowalkingutah.com and add it to your bookmarks and/or RSS reader
The details on the next Photowalking Utah event have been finalized. The group will be exploring the Halloween themed Gardner Village in West Jordan on Saturday October 18th. Here is the info from the official announcement:
Ghosties, Goblins, and Photowalkers!
Please join us for the next Photowalk Utah event, Saturday, October 18th at 3:30pm. We will wander through the witches, ghosts and goblins of Gardner Village in West Jordan to enjoy the Halloween festivities and atmosphere.
This month’s photowalk will be a family affair. Bring your family and especially the kids! While you capture images, your family can enjoy the shopping, events and activities sponsored by Gardner Village.
Check out this link to see all that is happening at Gardner Village.
www.gardnervillage.com/events.php
No fee to enter Gardner Village, but you might want some cash for caramel apples and other junk food.
Please meet at Archibald’s Restaurant at 3:300pm to start the photowalk. To conclude this month’s event, at 6:00pm we plan to reconvene at Archibald’s for food, warm drinks and share our captures.
Watch the weather forecasts and dress accordingly.
For those not familiar with this location, Gardner Village can be found at
1100 W. 7800 S.
West Jordan, UT
www.gardnervillage.com/
Labels: photowalking
This vintage family portrait from the Twin Falls Public Library was recently featured in the Twin Falls Idaho Times-News newspaper. It ran under the headline of Photographic Memory. Alongside the picture was this caption:
A group portrait of 15 people and a dog is all the information the library has on this photo.
My cousin, who lives in the area, saw the image and immediately recognized family members. She scanned the newspaper page and emailed it to my mother to verify. Yep, this was my family. My mother was able to identify every person in the image. When my cousin went to the library to give them the info, they were kind enough to provide hi-res scans of the image to our family.
I won't go into the all the details of who is in the portrait, but the baby seated in a lap in the front row is my mother being held by my grandfather. That large man in the middle is my great-grandfather.
What a great find. Since the original image has a fair amount of damage, my next step will be to do a digital restoration of it before making a print for my mother.
Here it is only October 7th and I'm feeling a bit tired of Christmas images. I have spent the better part of the past 14 days devoted to creating holiday shots for my stock portfolio, but now I think I'm done.
My last shoot was in a living room of a model's home. The theme was similar to the earlier shoot featuring Alyssa wrapping presents.
By shooting in the living room, even though not much of the location came through in the final images, I was able to have a little bit of a different look than in the earlier Christmas shots. As can be seen in the behind-the-scenes shot (top of page), I used a three softbox setup for a soft light that wrapped around the subject nicely. Even though I had a fairly bright window behind me, it wasn't providing enough light to affect my exposure.
To see my complete set of Holiday themed images on iStock, visit the lightbox by clicking here.
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the very first Photowalking Utah event. Six brave souls ventured out on a rainy Saturday night to capture the sights of downtown Salt Lake City.
Roll the clock ahead a year and we have now had over a dozen events and have nearly 300 photographers who have joined the group. It has been a great year and I now count as close friends many of the photogs that I have met through these events.
I anxiously await the future of Photowalking Utah!
Pictured in the image (left to right): Harley Pebley, myself, Diane Pebley, Brian Jones, Ann Torrence and Scott Smith.
Labels: photowalking
I'm up to my eyebrows in image editing today, so for today's blog post here is another shot from yesterday's Santa shoot.
Canon 5D, Canon 24-105 f/4L lens - 1/125 second, f/4, ISO 100
Here's a quick shot from this morning's Santa Claus photo shoot. I know what you're probably thinking, "It's barely October", but now is the best time for some new Christmas images for my stock portfolio.
Canon 5D, Canon 24-105 f/4L lens - 1/125 second, f/4, ISO 100
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