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Re: MARK AND CANDICE

Vu Bui — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:09:15 -0000

To purchase I have to highly recommend Alien Bees lights... http://alienbees.com. They are awesome... both in the quality of the product and in their service.

As for learning resources... strobist.com is a great place to start. Their focus is on off-camera strobes... but the same principles and techniques apply to studio lighting as well. The local bookstore or even used bookstore... or heck even the library... is going to be full of great books about lighting. Nothing new is worth learning first... the basics haven't changed in years... so you'll be good with anything you choose.

Or, come to Orange County and just hang out!

Re: MARK AND CANDICE

Lan Bui — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:07:53 -0000

Hey Ellie, I'm Lan, Vu's brother.

HDR is High Dynamic Range. You can read up on it here.

Re: MARK AND CANDICE

Ellie Grayes — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:46:31 -0000

Hi Vu,

Newbie here.

What's HDR?

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mark brooke — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:32:26 -0000

we loved working with you both! you are soooo amazing!!!! Thank you Thank You Thank You! -candice and mark

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Josh Grant — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:33:41 -0000

My God Vu, you just keep on getting better and better each time.

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Christian Kaysen — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:16:32 -0000

Dude! Nice job. Really digging the RING BEE... Woop Woop for RAW!

Cheers!

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Steve Garfield — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:43:19 -0000

Very cool shots. Love the lighting... Glad to hear you can do this with lighting vs. Photoshop.

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Vu Bui — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:16:09 -0000

Hey David,

Actually I shot it in RAW but didn't do HDR or even mock HDR. The exposure was done with my Alien Bees studio strobes and ringflash with a battery pack. I overpowered the sun by about a stop and a half... that and the wrap-around lighting gave it the look it has.

This was actually done with very minimal adustments, I did them all in Lightroom and only used PS to clone out some dust and resize/sharpen for web.

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David [C+D] — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:58:39 -0000

That was some seriously awesome work you guys did. Loved it. :) How did you get everything so perfectly exposed? HDR? Seriously. Awesome job.

C+D = :)