Professional portraits with cheap lights:

[duronboy]

I had the pleasure of going to Texas School of Professional Photography last year, and took a class with Ralph & Ryan Romaguera. In class, for the studio portion of the class, we had the best studio equipment available that money could buy. But here in this video they've shared with everyone this morning, they're showing how they used $50 worth of hardware to make some fabulous portraits!

YouTube - No Lights Photography

Thanks Ralph and Ryan!

[ChristopherCoy]

OMG I have never heard Ralph speak, but there aint no mistaken where he's from! LOL NAWLINS!

[ChristopherCoy]

LOL... you can 'stawt at da kmawt'... Gees I love my fellow Cajuns! His accent makes me miss home so bad! And its an AWESOME video! Thanks for the link!

[JohnT]

I picked this up on Twitter this morning via TriCoast and was going to post it myself. Glad I did a quick check first. LOL

[doctahjones]

good info for sure. i even learned a few things i want to try from it...

[HeatherLou]

Wait a minute....you mean I'm not the first one to use a shower curtain as a backdrop ;)

[brad]

Originally Posted by ChristopherCoy

OMG I have never heard Ralph speak, but there aint no mistaken where he's from! LOL NAWLINS!

Metarie, to be precise.

[ChristopherCoy]

Originally Posted by brad

Metarie, to be precise.

Actually I thought it was LaPlace.

Oh well... Metarie is to New Orleans as Arlington is to Fort Worth. Its all the same, especially down there... LOL

[revjvegas]

You should know where LaRose is then huh?
Talk 'bout your heavy accents.
Wife laughs at me every time we visit there cause I'll just slip back into it.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by brad

Metarie, to be precise.

Ha. That's like saying "He's not from Houston! He's from West University!"

[RobertK]

Robin

Thanks for the link.

[brad]

Originally Posted by ChristopherCoy

Actually I thought it was LaPlace.

Oh well... Metarie is to New Orleans as Arlington is to Fort Worth. Its all the same, especially down there... LOL

Originally Posted by Thomas Campbell

Ha. That's like saying "He's not from Houston! He's from West University!"

Heh.. I just know that the studio address is Metarie because Cindy handled all the Texas School wrangler apps.

[bondarnes]

Originally Posted by brad

Heh.. I just know that the studio address is Metarie because Cindy handled all the Texas School wrangler apps.

They actually live on the Mississippi Bank of the river. They call their place "The Triple R"

[brad]

Heh, I'd love to see it someday.

[Coogie]

Anything is possible and if someone had a gun to my head and wanted portraits I could do what this guy is doing and probably get decent results, but to call it "professional" is laughable. Let's say you're a law office with 20 employees who wants to take professional pictures for newsletters, website, etc. Photographer A and his assistant show up with their monoblocks, lightboxes, pocket wizard, backdrops, and sets up and Photographer B shows up with shower curtains, home depot clip on lights and AC insulation. If you know nothing about photography, who would you hire?

Before you give me the "it's the results that matter, not the procedure", I'm betting that a good photographer can take much better pictures with professional lighting gear where he can control the light levels can take better pictures than doing it McGroober style. I'd really like to see the actual large version of the photos too.