Ryan Dionisio

I’ve just updated my computer.  I’m now running an Apple 24 inch Imac.  This is a 3.06 GHZ intel processor with 4 Gigs of Ram and a 512mb video card.  The monitor has been calibrated for color using the Coloreyes Display Pro software and the Xrite color calibrater.

New photos and information about possible new projects coming soon!  Keep yourself updated!

Shiny New Technology

As I’ve read about on macrumors.com… New Mac laptops are being introduced next week on the 14th.  I’m hoping this means price drops and new tech for their laptops but more importantly I’m in the market for a 24 inch iMac… Here’s what the media received… it whets the appetite:

I’m home safely and in the process of sorting (read finding) all my gear and photos.  I just read an awesome article on color management by Syl Arena.  His blog has an amazing amount of information and is a definite must read.

All good things must come to an end and so my time in Vancouver ends as well.  I’m moving to NJ only minutes away from NY.  I’m driving from Vancouver to NJ with my girlfriend, parents, and two cats in my one Honda CR-V.  It’s 8 days from coast to coast in what google tells me is about 2 days and 4 hours of driving.  I plan on doing a photo excursion as I drive through so I’ll post images soon and probably update as I drive along.  Wish me safety and luck.

Click on the link to see our route!

I’ve just updated my website!

Take a look.

I was able to take a class with Alex Waterhouse-Hayward recently and learned some of the techniques he uses for editorial photography.  He has some really interesting and different techniques that I’d like to start using in my own photography (use of wide angle lenses in portraiture, softboxes very close to his subject, keyshifting backgrounds, and scanner photography to name a few).

One of the most interesting techniques he used was triptych narratives.  Here’s ones I made during the workshop.

Let me know what you think!

I was honored to receive a print from Pooya Nabei yesterday.  It’s from the Lonely Lamb series.  Pooya is a top notch Fashion photographer who’s mastery of light is unparalleled.  I aspire to one day be able to use light as well and creatively as him.  Further, his concept and style are prolific and consistently apparent from shoot to shoot.  Go to his site and be amazed.

The print I received was the last image from the Lonely Lamb Series.

I haven’t updated as I’ve been so so busy.  I’ve been fortunate enough to work with Martin Brown who has been instrumental in the development of my photography.   Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been working on!

Shot at F/9.0 at 1/125th of a second at ISO 100.  Two lights used to illuminate the background set at F/11.0.  A beauty dish was used in front.

In a continuation of my series on movement I placed an ad on craigslist and had several people respond.  Kiri was the first of many to arrive.  She’s been trained in many forms of dance and is a professional dancer now.  I was truly blessed with being able to shot a woman with such grace and beauty and most importantly with a great sense of how her body was moving.  Everything was so elegant and amazing.  I hardly have any throw away frames from the day.  This one was my favorite though.

Shot at F/14.0 at 1/125th of a second at ISO 100 using a single beauty dish in front.  The background was two Profoto monoheads fired at F/16.0 into foamcore VFlats.

Kyle came to me through the same cragislist ad as Kiri.  I kept the same lighting setup to keep the images in this series fairly consistent.  There’s power and determination in this shot.  There’s also a hell of a lot of focus.  It’s a great counterpoint to the image of Kiri I think.

Shot at F/9.0 at 1/125th of a second at ISO 100 using a beauty dish on the front powered with a 2400 WS Profoto power pack.  The background is shot with two Profoto 600 WS monoheads at F/11.0 into foamcore V Flats.

Charlotte is another member of the movement project I’ve been working.  She is a downhill skier.  She had beautiful images and great fun jumping in the studio.

Shot at F11.0 at on 1/125th of a second at ISO 100 via beauty dish powered by Profoto 2400 WS power pack.  Background shot at F/11.0 using two Profoto 600 WS monoheads.  Composite of two images with photoshop overlay.

Here’s my lates foray into fashion.  I think it’s really beautiful.  Let me know what you think!

More to come… including an update to my website!

I’ve been inspired by Motion lately.  Partially because of watching so much So You Think You Can Dance and America’s Best Dance Crew and also because of inspired lifelong projects of many great photographers.  I put an ad out on craigslist.com and have had some responses.  I’ll begin photographing people next week.

In the meanwhile I had the opportunity to photograph a lovely model named Megan.  She was interested in having some different and fun kinds of images made.  This is what we came up with:

Made using a black duvateen background and a single beauty dish on a boom set at F/11.0 at 1/125th at ISO 100.  There was also a green rim light shot into a V-Flat coming in from behind her and the right.  The key to the photo is pre-focusing.

This project was meant to be!

I’m not sure if it’s that I don’t understand fashion or I’m just a rebel.  I shot this recently:

The main light is set to F/7.1.  The background is on a 20degree grid on the background.  There’s also a rim set behind the model and off to the left set to F/7.1.  Important lesson here.  Make sure you check your camera BEFORE you shoot.  I shot this entire session and couldn’t figure out why my exposure was all over the place.  I had shot the day before and bracketed my shots and forgot to turn it off.  Thank god for RAW.

Anyway back to the point.  But right now Fashion photography is all about akward looking poses and extreme amounts of make up.  Flip through any Flaunt, Zink, etc and you’ll see dark images of girls with lots of dark make up in really akward poses.

Which led me to this image.  Is it fashion?  You tell me.  I shot this the day after:

Shot outdoors using only a 5-in-1 reflector and the sun.   It’s F5.6 and 1/250th of a second on my Nikon 85mm 1.8 lens.