Behind the Scenes at the Old Alabama Town Shoot

For LWT's Createathon, Stephen Poff created a series of photos depicting life in early Alabama History. In this video you'll get a behind the scenes look at the photoshoot and a peek into the lighting style that Stephen used to create these photos.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• LWT
• Createathon
• Old
• Alabama
• Town
• Montgomery
• History
• Photography
• tutorial
• Canon
• 5D
• Mark
• II
• Rebel
• Lighting
• strobist
• pocket
• wizard
• Alien
• Bees
• Stephen
• Poff

[DrShrinker]

Hey Stephen, thanks so much for doing this video! It answered almost all of the questions I was just about to bother you with. lol

A few remain, however: what is an SP Studios strobe? Is it similar to the Alien Bees? What power are the ones you used here? And, finally, did you use a light meter for all of this?

Thanks.

[LWTCom]

SP Studios is a cheap starter strobe kit that I got from B&H. As cheap as they are, they've been pretty useful. And no, I do use a meter sometimes, but on this I did not. I had a hoodloupe, so I could see my levels pretty good.

[LWTCom]

@DasMaddin: Thanks! Yes, the video footage was shot with the 5D MKII. My widest lens unfortunately does not work with the 5D and I needed it for this shoot, but the good thing was that it left it free to shoot video with.

[rubent100]

wow you can tell you had quite an innocent childhood.

[Bukfan1]

Hi, Al

Nice to see you in your school room. Old Alabama Town is a great thing. I love your Crockett the best though.

Ps. Great camera work!

- Seguin

[NeanderthalMan]

Hey Al good buddy, looking good in the classroom there. A man of many faces but your Crockett is the best!

[mssso90]

That is a very useful video thank u so much for it ...

I liked the video camera it has excellent depth

[No1BRC]

Great photos and a really enjoyable video :-)

~Dan

[DasMaddin]

Love this video footage.. did you take a 5D MKII?