OrcaBob
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Post by OrcaBob on Sept 29, 2009 0:55:25 GMT -5
Just got back a few hours ago from a sunset shoot. The girl is a friend of soccer girl Jazzy, though this one goes to a different school... a school I've been dying to access for senior portrait work. We did a test shoot today -- we shot for less than 60 minutes (a record for me!) -- but we got a lot of keepers. Variations and complications of this shoot: - The girl went with minimal makeup. This was hastily organized to meet a deadline for getting an ad into a high school yearbook, so we didn't get time to communicate on looks. But she's a pretty girl with a ton of personality.
- The weather was all over the place and it changed from minute to minute.
- The sun was low and we did some of the shooting among trees, so the light was a fast variable. But that led to a variety of looks, which was good.
I'll be providing prints and proofsheets for her to show off at school. She'll get a "bird-dog" fee for every customer referral that results in the purchase of a portrait package. We'll be doing an indoor studio shoot soon so she'll have a more diverse sampling to show off to her classmates. Attachments:
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OrcaBob
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Post by OrcaBob on Sept 29, 2009 1:01:00 GMT -5
More samples from today's shoot... Attachments:
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OrcaBob
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Post by OrcaBob on Sept 29, 2009 1:02:23 GMT -5
And more samples... Attachments:
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OrcaBob
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Post by OrcaBob on Sept 29, 2009 14:49:48 GMT -5
Update: As warned, those samples are ROUGH samples. They've been corrected for exposure and color-temperature and some were cropped and vignetted. Nothing more. One of the latter shots has a classic gaffe: something growing out of the model's head. I fixed that with some cloning. I also used NoiseWare (medium noise setting) to smooth the skin a bit. Shooting into the sun resulted in a bit of grain/noise in the picture, especially on the girl's skin. Shooting into the sunset required heavy fill flash (Nikon SB-800 with a mini-softbox). The girl's escort (model's not yet 18) held a reflector over the camera to shade the lens from sun's glare. I first metered for the sunlit parts of the tall grass, then shuttered slower a few stops to guarantee a bit of blowout from the backlight, then relied on the speedlight to fill on the girl. This is a very low-resolution copy. Attachments:
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Post by musicman5 on Sept 30, 2009 9:25:11 GMT -5
Nice work, as always. Thanks for the strobist description in your last post as I was wondering how that was lit.
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