Very impressive set of images. The lighting and color is spot you. Your
attention to detail in the costume, props, and of course posing and
composition is really impressive. I'm not a studio photog and aside form
a couple of classes have never played around in the studio - but from
the little experience I've had in the arena I can appreciate the amount
of effort it takes to make photos like these. The one minor nit I would
have is with the backgrounds - the halo effect around the model in the
first two is a little distracting and the way the white backdrop blends
with the carpet in the third shots tends to draw my eye to that and away
from the more interesting elements in the frame. But - minor nits, these
are very high caliber shots and evidence a lot of planning, hard work,
and skill.
Mark C.
On 3/19/2012 4:25 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
For the studio fans (all four of you): two more finished images in my
Postmodern Pinups project:
http://goo.gl/udU3k
I had hoped to get to more of last week's Posing Workshop shoot, but
learning how to do decent background extraction using a copy of the
blue channel in Ps took up all my spare weekend time.
By the way, I had an unbelievable Duh! moment. With a flash of utter
brilliance, I rotated my second monitor, an older Dell LCD, to
portrait position and was able to edit these portrait orientation
images so as to completely cover the now vertical screen, increasing
their area roughly 400%! I have had this monitor now for about 6 years
and this is the very first fecking time I've thought to do that. Live
and -- eventually -- learn. It's like buying a brand new 30" monitor,
for portraits anyway.
Kit:
K20D, DA* 50-135/2.8, ISO 100.
4 Bowens 400WS strobes, 2 barn-doored on backdrop; 2 in 42" gridded softboxes.
Lr, Ps.
Thanks to Bob W for the "Postmodern" moniker.
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