Jessica Ryan Seal, With Honors

We are very proud of our daughter Jessica here at Steven W. Seal Photography. She graduated with honors and is in the top 5% of her class of 484. She will enter the University of South Carolina this fall following the Gamecock family tradition. Way to go Jessica!

This portrait uses the same set up as for my friend Barney in the previous post.

--Steve

DIY Florescent Keno-Flo Lights

I've been wanting to build a pair of these floresent strip lights ever since I saw this post by David X. Tejada on his blog a couple of years ago here - Annual Report Photographer David Tejada "The f-Stops Here". These were pretty easy to put together, it just took a few minutes per light.

My subject here is my friend Barney, he came by the other day and I coerced him into setting for a few shots. I used the lights as fill on either side of his face in addition to three shoe mount strobes, one high on axis, and the other two left and right behind him. Post processing in Lightroom 3.

In addition to creating those weird catch lights in the eyes and reflections on his glasses, which I do like, the lights add just a little shadowless fill that appears to come from nowhere.

I'm looking forward to finding new ways to incorporate these lights in my other work.

--Steve