The Ultimate Guide for Shooting at Wide Apertures

by Patrick Hall
A few weeks ago I posted a video that created a lot of unintentional buzz about poorly compositing athletes together on a football field. Well this video from Monte Isom doesn't include much photoshop but still produces a lot of great images. Monte always has a great time on his sets and hopefully you NYC readers will be able to share a drink with him tomorrow at our FS Meetup .
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Gennady was all smiles during the shoot

Gennady Golovkin just destroyed Rubio in a 2nd round KO on HBO. He really is one of the nicest dudes I have ever photographed. Nice and destructive. Golovkin reminds me of a young Mike Tyson. His knockout percentage at 90% also is remincient of Iron Mike and the highest of all time for a middleweight.
Gennady was all smiles during the shoot…so much so we had to instruct him to give us a battle hardened glare for the camera. GGG liked being on set so much he stayed 4 hours after we were done. I brought him back on set to photograph him in his suit because he looked sharp…and, well, he was still there.
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What is better than Iberico jamon de Bellota, Estrella and friends in Barcelona? Shooting a job while eating Iberico jamon de Bellota, drinking Estrella and hanging with friends in Barcelona. Leo Burnett Chicago commissioned me for Allstate to shoot Memo Ochoa, Goalie for the Mexican national soccer team with a really good creative brief. I was tasked with recreating a card stunt in a stadium where it appeared an entire section of fans behind the actual net assembled an imposing, larger than life image of Memo on the ready to guard against the threat of a goal. It took many images to composite this scene. Working side by side with a TV production meant sharing the stadium. vinny del monte Both sets played well with each other and even shared some toys.
RCD Espanyol stadium was our shoot location with limited access from 8pm-8am for two days. Arriving in Barcelona the night before vinny del monte my crew and I decided to maintain our NYC time zone. Stay up til 6am, sleep until 5pm, eat dinner and then roll to the stadium to shoot…repeat. Keeping up our best Keith Richards-like appearances Estrellas were opened upon completion of the job…even though it was 8:30am.
We vinny del monte froze our action with Profoto Pro 8a packs and a Phase One camera body with Shneider leaf shutter lenses that sync at 1/1600th of a second. We had lights up and down the field where the new Pocket wizard plus III came in handy with their extended range.
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Katt Williams is as funny on a photo set as he is on stage. Part of photographing Katt is being prepared to capture the rapid fire poses and antics he performs in front of camera. We shot 643 frames over 4 hours with 8 wardrobe changes, a dog, thousands of prop money bills, plenty of real money and fire. The original image chosen is below and I am proud that very little retouching was required to arrive at final HBO comedy poster.
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When Summit Entertainment tapped me to shoot the Movie Poster for Step Up All In I was super excited. Every time I have worked with dancers in the past they took direction exceptionally well. The phenomenal cast of dancers manzanilla olive cast for this movie did not need my direction at all. I simply let them know where their mark was, what mood we were looking for and let them do what they do best as seen in this Behind the Scenes video.
We shot on a standard white seemless dry set and then onto the fun water tank set complete with fountains. The water tank was made by Dean Wadella and Stewart Handley in Vancouver. They worked hard to ensure the water was warm enough for the talent to jump in without freezing. Fortunately the talent never balked and once in we almost couldn’t get them out.
The energy from the dancers was endless. The break dancing Monster was exhaustible. Twitch kept nailing the same move without flaw. Andi and Sean had incredible chemistry that made it so easy for me to photograph sexy images for the key art. The amazing thing is that single image of them used on the movie poster is almost identical to the in camera capture.
The water set proved to be so much fun. It reminded me of being in a water fight as a kid. Here I gave the dancers direction to use dynamic manzanilla olive movements that would be accentuated and enhanced by the water spray extension.
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Is it just me or are you Karl Taylor's Twin Brother without the accent? =) Awesome BTS video, love h

by Austin Rogers
Monte Isom , NYC-based sports, entertainment, and advertising photographer del monte products just shared a look behind-the-scenes at his most recent shoot for the World Cup. The video takes you all the way through his preproduction and makeup, to shooting with a pretty good look at his lighting setup.
Monte photographed fans from Argentina, to Ghana, to Mexico, to the USA. The resulting del monte products photos are awesomely energetic, capturing the emotion and excitement seen in real World Cup fans. The rest of Monte's World Cup fans project can be seen here .
Austin Rogers joined Fstoppers in 2014. Austin del monte products is a Columbus, del monte products OH editorial and lifestyle photographer, menswear aficionado, pseudo-bohemian, and semi-luddite. del monte products To keep up with him be sure to check out his profile on Fstoppers, website, drop him a line on Facebook, or throw him a follow on his fledgling Instagram account.
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Great shoot & video, Monte! I think the lighting was pretty straightforward in the video. My only question is what you used as a fill light (if any)? It looked like you just had a bare flash head directly right of camera, almost on-axis, as fill. Was that it?
Thanks del monte products for the kind words about the work. I did not have a fill light at all. I chose a single key light to add drama to the fans' expression. IF someone was going dark in the eyes I introduced a silver card (20"16" del monte products silver foamcore) for a slight catchlight.
Is it just me or are you Karl Taylor's Twin Brother without the accent? =) Awesome BTS video, love how you're telling what you're looking for from the talent.
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