{"id":1876,"date":"2010-03-22T00:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2010-03-22T17:11:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:11:32","slug":"strobes-shooting-and-building-keeps-the-creative-slump-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"Strobes, Shooting and Building Keeps the Creative Slump Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1879\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?attachment_id=1879\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/4G5A5644.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Richard Louissaint&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1269166727&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Richard Louissaint \\u00a9 2010&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"4G5A5644\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/4G5A5644.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/4G5A5644.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1879 aligncenter\" title=\"4G5A5644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/4G5A5644.jpg?resize=600%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My coworker (pictured below) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joeyalvarado\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joey<\/a> and I have\u00a0become\u00a0collaborators working on shoots (his for now) that our place of employment has made easy with some of its benefits. While I took lighting out this weekend for my own shoot for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/wesmapes\" target=\"_blank\">musician<\/a> I know and his\u00a0talented\u00a0stable of folks on Saturday, I\u00a0helped\u00a0out Joey with another emerging visual artist for some\u00a0beauty\u00a0shots. \u00a0\u00a0These shoots have been a great refresher\/learning course for me. Joey is ten years my junior and has a much better sense of artificial lighting than me.<\/p>\n<p>This is a test shot I took of the model\u00a0below. Then we let the other photographer take over.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1878\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?attachment_id=1878\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/4G5A5646.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Richard Louissaint&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1269166845&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Richard Louissaint \\u00a9 2010&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"4G5A5646\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/4G5A5646.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/4G5A5646.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1878\" title=\"4G5A5646\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/4G5A5646.jpg?resize=600%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My coworker (pictured below) Joey and I have\u00a0become\u00a0collaborators working on shoots (his for now) that our place of employment has made easy with some of its benefits. While I took lighting out this weekend for my own shoot for a musician I know and his\u00a0talented\u00a0stable of folks on Saturday, I\u00a0helped\u00a0out &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1876\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[26],"tags":[633],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portrait","tag-joey-alvarado-wes-mapes","post--featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/4G5A5644.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EmB-ug","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2278,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=2278","url_meta":{"origin":1876,"position":0},"title":"Joey Alvarado and Nick Rapaz (The DP and the Photog)","date":"28 Nov \u201910","format":false,"excerpt":"Nick Rapaz work here. 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