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
Shot this one from the same shoot as the last - but this time used a paper roll and more of a conventional studio setup.
Lighting wise this was achieved with two El ranger quadras left and right through gridded strip soft boxes and a ranger through a 70cm gridded beauty dish as key light.
Post production in photoshop.
Grandfather clock is a family heirloom! Fun and games getting it on set but defiinitely worth it I hope you will agree.
Lauren was superb as usual - not often that I get the opportunity to shoot a X-factor contestant :-) - things are looking up for the rest of the year!
Enjoy
DrF
Fantastic opportunity to learn from the "Big Dog" himself, Mr Damian McGillycuddy. Without a doubt the best workshop I have been on and this was represented by the seriousness of the ability of the other photographers there.
This was taken using an interesting studio set up - namely a bare bulb El BXRi shooting through some toughspun attached to a man made "window" in the studio. Having intially taken shots using this as a key light we then moved on to adding a key with a beauty dish and feathering the light.
The biggest things I learnt included real attention to detail in posing the model so that her pose is believable in the context of the setting. I realise that thsi may sound self evident but real skill and thought are required.
The other great thing I learnt was odd fact that light coming towards the camera (from lights positioned as rim lights for example) are perceived as brighter by the eye than as measured by the light meter.
Lastly I saw the improtance of shooting with smaller apertures when using flash than I typically do.
All in all great and I am pleased that Damian has agreed to mentor me - onwards and upwards :-)
Til next time
DrF
Something a little different from me for your consideration. Taken in a great little (and reasonably priced) studio here in Leeds.
But really the main reason for me posting today is to celebrate my successful submission to the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers. As of today I have some new letters after my name - LSWPP - "L" standing for Licentiate.
Need to keep up the work and aim for the next level - Associate.
Other news - I am shooting at Chester Fashion Festival next week so you can expect to see some run way stuff here soon.
Cheers
DrF
Haven't blogged for a while - not because I have been quiet - rather I just have not had the time :-)
Still this shoot today more than merits a mention. Had a good fortune to work with Skyler who was over from the US and able to fit in a shoot. The shoot took place in NDP studios (well worth a visit if you happen to be needing to do a shoot in Leeds....)
Skyler is a professional ballet dancer and very easy to work with. In the space of four hours we managed about six different set ups. Helping me was Natalie Greenwell doing the make up. We have worked together and today she provided two themes.
Not enough hours in the day for editing - but finshed with around 60 photos which I am very pleased with.
Lighting was using my Elinchrom stuff (largely due to familiarity) rather than the Broncolor in house stuff. I used the quadra ringflash extensively either as fill or key light. This shot was taken with the El Octabank camera right (with ranger), a qhadra in the 100cm deep octa cam left and a strip lit (quadra again) recta with egg box cam left.
All comments welcomed!
Cheers
Dr
Great shoot this and very much a collaborative effort.
Taken from a workshop with aurumlight - head over to their blog for more info on future workshops.
Two day shoot - first involved taking the base frames and then a full day of photoshop :-)
Lighting by way of two Paull Buff Einstein units using Elinchrom Recta light mods. Einsteins were used as they can provide very short flash duration so that the milk does not blur when thrown.
And yes lots of towels were used - but no cows were hurt in the process!
Let me know what you think
DrF
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