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Canal Dreams:
Armed with only a 1970’s manual focus macro lens and a yongnuo flash I headed out into the bright sunlight.
Yes - you can shoot in bright sunlight, just under expose the image and use the flash to light it.
These were all shot at f/2.8, 1/200 sec at ISO 50. Flash at 1/128 power.
Processing was a bit of sharpening of the raw file and playing with the colors in curves.
I’ve been shooting in exile for the past 12 months. I’ve been avoiding studio work in favour of the challenges of location shooting.
On my last casting call on MM, Selena Angel applied for an art nude shoot on location. While I felt she wasn’t right for that job, I did believe she had an intriguing look that would be great for Pin Up styled studio shoot.
Some models are their own worst enemy, they cannot organise themselves in relation to time/dates. No such problems with Selena. She’s throughly professional - on time, prepared and knows the poses for the genre. She was in and gone in 55 minutes.
An excellent model.
Pin Ups are all about the plastic fantastic. They don’t look real, nor are they supposed to. Everything is heightened to an absurd level. After shooting lots of po-faced nudes, its nice to shoot with a smile on your face.
However, the lighting is…deceptively complicated. There must be shadow - albeit very light shadow. These shots took 6 lights. Fill light is paramount and it must be a big light source.
Post-production is a lot of time spent getting to know your dodge and burn brushes all over again. It’s layer after layer of skin smoothing. Not to everyone’s taste, I know. But I wanted to work fully within the genre.
As an experiment, Pin Ups, were a lot of fun to do. So much so - I think I’ll do more!
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I won! & 14,000+ hits so far.
Many thanks to Miss Fawnya Frolic.
& to Fran Byrne, a loyal and trusty Steed of the lighting arts!
Posted March 27, 2012 at 2:20pm
The Blue Room & Occam’s Photographic Razor.
I’ve been holding these shots back because I’ve been using them as CS5 experiments. The colors are super vivid, so let me talk you through it.
Firstly, the wall is genuinely that color. Indeed a strange choice for a dairy milking yard! Secondly, the model’s (Fawnya Frolic) hair was super rich with an orange/reddish pigment. So marrying the two is easy. Or so you’d think.
The problem lay, when the light hit that wall. The paint was quite reflective - casting everything with a blue-ish tinge. Including the model’s skin. The other possibility was to not light the wall. But then you’d lose that contrast with the hair, as the wall would go dark. On location, while freezing, the quickest option is often your best bet. The photographic equivalent of Occam’s Razor. Instead of making everyone involved even more uncomfortable, I went with the quickest solution:
I opted to make everything go blue!
And then try to suck out the unwanted blue tinge in Photoshop.
Getting it right in camera, is everyone’s mantra. Suffering for your art, is another line I hear. But sometimes when it’s 4 degrees out, getting dark, with no modeling light, limited space for repositioning and there isn’t a lot of flags to stop light bleed…you just go with quickest solution.
