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J2Cents Well I am late posting more work again. Always have the best of intentions to post but well you know how it is. It is good to get a post out there on J2Cents and the work we did together. This is part of a project that has been going on for a couple of months now. This image is part of the promotional images I shot for him. This one may be his album cover for the CD he is working on now. Great guy you should check out the his music on myspace. For the promotional work we were looking for a space with some old character, maybe some brick and some industrial. Well, in Albuquerque that is near as impossible to find except for a couple of locations. For this one we used the Factory on Fifth art space which is a converted old brick factory building now housing artists. We arranged to have a space open for us and then went to town with the lights. All small lights for this shot. 1/250th sec shutter to knock down the ambient to let us work the light we added. Back drop light gelled green to accentuate the light from the florescent tubes lighting the space. Gelled the main light 1/4 CTO to help throw the shadows a touch blue and back light to add a bit for the peak of his cap. In post we have added a bit of a grunge touch dropping the shadows down and desaturating the image with a bit more contrast. Gives it a punchy grungy look.

J2Cents

Well I am late posting more work again. Always have the best of intentions to post but well you know how it is. It is good to get a post out there on J2Cents and the work we did together. This is part of a project that has been going on for a couple of months now. This image is part of the promotional images I shot for him. This one may be his album cover for the CD he is working on now. Great guy you should check out the his music on myspace. For the promotional work we were looking for a space with some old character, maybe some brick and some industrial. Well, in Albuquerque that is near as impossible to find except for a couple of locations. For this one we used the Factory on Fifth art space which is a converted old brick factory building now housing artists. We arranged to have a space open for us and then went to town with the lights. All small lights for this shot. 1/250th sec shutter to knock down the ambient to let us work the light we added. Back drop light gelled green to accentuate the light from the florescent tubes lighting the space. Gelled the main light 1/4 CTO to help throw the shadows a touch blue and back light to add a bit for the peak of his cap. In post we have added a bit of a grunge touch dropping the shadows down and desaturating the image with a bit more contrast. Gives it a punchy grungy look.