102/365: K is Keith.

Too Literal? Mayhap. H thru K have been nothing but mandatory catchup archival shots. Very low on the conceptual scale, but shooting four days straight at a film festival left my brain without any concepts left...

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival was a fun time, met some really cool folks, talked shop, films, and Morgan Spurlock mustaches. I was there to take photos of the festival as part of the volunteer photog team, but I finagled my way into setting up a portrait station in the press lounge, and got some 25 filmmakers as well as a host of volunteers and staff in front of my lens and lights. I'll be posting a gallery of those soon, but for now, I've had to catchup on all my missed 365 days. The last few shots have consequently been archival, but here we are, and I have a whole day to do 'L'...now, do I take the easy way out?

Keith is seen here in Old Snowmass, Colorado. Lit him with one speedlight in a shoot-thru umbrella. The color comes from three things: I'm shooting after sunset. The clouds already have quite a blue tint going. I set the White Balance on the camera to 'Tungsten', which shifts the color even cooler, bluer, to let artifical tungsten lights seem more neutral, and daylight seem uber-blue. Then I gel the flash with a full cut of CTO (Color Temperture Orange) which makes the light it produces go the color of a tungsten blub, that is, very warm, and therefore, balanced with my Tungsten White Balance setting. Keith appears a natural color, but he lives in a blue world.

-llg