Back In the Studio

I"ve slowly been preparing for a special western shoot.  As slow as I've been moving I'll be lucky to get it complete prior to the Spring of 2015.  Anyway,  I used some of my kids as guinea pigs working through the lighting etc....My wife saw some of the pics and she wanted to use them to update her wall.  So, I figured I might as well post a few on the blog.

What you'll see is a single light set up using a black background.  When I finally get the look I'm after I'll be using some black backgrounds, but I'll also be using my Virtual Background Machine for some added variety and creativity.   The colored images are the original images with a slightly warmer white balance than was actually used in camera.  The "almost" sepia images are the same images after using Lightroom 4 presets to get close to a sepia image.