f-stop 3.5, shutter speed 15.0, ISO 800
This picture is similar to another painting with light picture i've turned in, but Heffron's face is more in focus in this pic. I flashed him once with a green gel, then painted his face with a red Poweraid. I especially like the stars in the background.

Gary Neeley likes to relax with his dogs Thor and Hercules when he gets out of work. The dogs were partially responsible for dragging him down a flight of stairs and fracturing his right foot, but he has graciously decided to forgive them. I was able to use one strobe bounced off a wall at camera right to light the couch, wall, and subjects.

f-stop 4.0, shutter speed 1/400, ISO 200

Life In HD

Gary Neeley helps illustrate how life is sometimes viewed within the context of television reality. I wanted the base picture to show this reality as both mundane and vivid in comparison to actual perceived reality.
To get the effect of light coming out of a TV, I draped a Dance Dance Revolution game pad over a large screen TV, white side facing the strobe. I set the strobe to half power and let it fly. Taking multiple pictures both horizontal and vertical allowed me to vary the picture-in-picture mirror look. To achieve the surreal atmosphere I adjusted unsharp mask levels. I also added stylistic effects like film grain to the second and third screens.

f-stop 4.0, shutter speed 1/60, ISO 800
Pete Naiukow poses indifferently on his balcony patio. I set the strobe inside the house looking out onto the patio through the sliding glass door. I taped two pieces of green plastic to the strobe to achieve the lime ambiance. I fixed Pete's color in photoshop, but left the green background deep and saturated.

f-stop 6.3, shutter speed 1/125, ISO 200
Pete Naiukow and his wife Jen stand serenely in front of a pond behind Naiukow's parents house in Houghton Lake, Michigan. The overcast weather provides a unique oppurtunity to contrast Pete and Jen against the forboding sky overhead. I set up one strob to camera right, zoomed as wide as possible, with a yellow plastic bag covering the bulb to warm up the light.