Les jumeaux de Siam

Les jumeaux de Siam, originally uploaded by DrFireball.

And now for something completely different. This is the first posted image in a new series of mine exploring twins.

The model is the incredible Holly AKA Ivory Flame (www.ivoryflame.co.uk). A great day was had shooting with a fellow colleague - using his house as a studio.

Second real shoot with the Hasselblad and was able to shoot tethered throughout - clearly on a tripod also for this one.

Post production was fairly straight forward and I am not finding a need to sharpen the Hassie files beyond the default setting in Phocus - an absolute joy.

DrF

Like Father........

Like Father........, originally uploaded by DrFireball.

Had wanted to take this shot for a while as folk often say we look a lot alike. Lighting was very simple using one elinchrom quadra in a 19 inch McGillicuddy beauty dish just to the right of the camera and above the camera.

Fair bit of post production to line everything up as we have fairly different sized heads!

Wife competely freaked out by it - so must have done something right!

Taken with the wonderful Hasselblad - do I love this camera too much?

Regards

DrF

Not the way the evening was meant to end.......

Not the way the evening was meant to end......., originally uploaded by DrFireball.

Wow am I pleased with having finished the post production on this one!

Great shoot with Clare (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clare-Neruda/233156630088846), Natalie and Sharon at the a boutique Hotel in Harrogate - used a truly plush suite and had a long day. The shoot was to create an editorial storyline based around a girl getting ready then increasingly bored/agitated waiting for her beau before finally coming to a sticky end. How this happened is up to you although there are a number of clues around the shot.

Lighting was with a 70cm beauty dish to light Clare on the bed with two quadras gridded to light selective areas - even a strobe hand held to light the bedside light. The composited shots were taken with a Damian McGillicuddy beauty dish hand held. The camera was locked down on a tripod to allow a lot of masking to be completed in photoshop. About 40 layers in PS in all. But hopefully you will agree that it was worth it.

Cheers

DrF