Location Light

Environmental Portrait– "The Grave Digger"

Alma resident Craig Brune, 38, has been a groundskeeper for Riverside Cemetery

in Mount Pleasant for eight years. He is in charge of groundskeeping and office responsibilities, in addition to burials.

"(The job is interesting because) it's a cemetery. I like working with the customers," Brune said.

35 mm lens, ISO 200, f/11, 1/200

The Lighting Setup–

To complete this portrait, I used three strobes. My subject was mainly lit from the left. My secondary light was used as a rim light behind Craig. I varied aiming the strobe on the right; I used it to either light the tombstone or fill the right side of my subject's face.

I wanted to do a grave digger for my environmental portrait. Although I initially planned to shoot with my subjects in the evening, we had to move the time to early morning. My intentions were to make the cemetery look creepy, so I wanted to take advantage of the shadows.

Additional Location Lighting–

Essexville junior Clare Tamez models a lace tank under a gray leather jacket on Sunday night.

"I love playing around with different themes and designs," she said. "Lace with leather are total opposites,

but finding the right color with the romatic ruffle on the jacket balances it out and makes it a softer finish."

50 mm lens, ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/200

The Lighting Setup–

For this particular portrait, I used one strobe as my main light. For the rest of the shoot, I used two lights; my secondary strobe was used as a hair light.

For most of the shoot, I posed Clare in a field in Shepherd. The weather was miserable and sprinkling, so when we turned around and saw a rainbow, we acted quickly. It came and went in less than a minute, so I had to think lighting immediately.