Ernesto Sue's laid back demeanor belies the intensity and succinct coordination he applies to his craft. He is an award winning portrait photographer and retoucher who draw his inspiration from all movie genres. He especially enjoys sci-fi movies and the lighting involved in those.
He has branded his style on high-fashion and thoroughly enjoys the creative process involved in a themed photoshoot; with wife Nicole Sue providing styling on most shoots. He lends his style of photography to weddings, events and portraiture. He also offers and teaches photography lighting classes.
As the youngest child in his family growing up in an inner-city apartment, he spent a lot of time by himself and spent many hours creating very graphic and vivid drawings. He later developed an interest in hip-hop; penning and performing rhymes in his bedroom on a computer he bought while working at The Bank Of New York in his senior year of high school.
I used two Lee Filters Sunset Grads 2 and a Lee Filters Mist Grad on my Canon R5 with a RF 24-105mm f4L. The background was lit with two strip boxes on Elinchrom lights and I had a small octabox with the front diffusion removed pointed up to the white ceiling on its lowest power to provide a small amount of fill to see the eyes in front of the model off to the left. I also used a tobacco grad with one of the sunset grads for a darker look. The model wore a see through raincoat over a black cocktail dress and had dark makeup around the eyes, We also played with a gobo projected onto the model showing a louvered window. There is so much you can achieve with this setup. Peace. Ciao Jeff
Great video and nice work. Beautiful model, good posing and the color shading (gels usage) worked out well. I liked image #1 best. Thanks for sharing..
Honestly, I found your video so that I could get ideas for using my 48 inch parabolic. Your lighting is way beyond where I currently am. However, I’m very inspired by what you just shared in this video. Even four years ago lol - excellent work!
@@ErnestoSuePhotography Oh wow Really? What do you have going on? I'm free Monday if you need an assistant. I'm about to do a major family shoot next Saturday. I'm kinda rusty but cleaning my lens and just going to get back out there! How's your wife? Did you ever stay in contact with any of the NYC contacts? Be well.
@@eLLBdotmusic I am leaving tomorrow actually then heading out the county the end of the month. Not much going on in NY just seeing family and enjoying some fashion week. Good luck with your family shoot it sounds fun. In terms of staying in touch with anyone in from NY, yes, as recent as last year (if memory serves but I am completely blanking on his name at the moment).
Man this reminded me how much fun that day was!! We gotta do this more often! You had some heat I hadn't seen!!! The shot through the railing was fire!! Great video!! Might have to steal some b roll LOL