Thank you very much, Mark. The white haloing seems to be a well-used pinup style lately. One reason for employing it is to help obscure any imperfectly done background extraction since that process tends to leave fragments of white haloing around the removed subject. When I did these shots, we placed the model and set closer to the backdrop that I would have wished for, but we simply didn't have the distance we needed to get full-body shots at 75mm-e otherwise. So unfortunately there was excessive white spill from behind onto the model's body and hair, and onto the props.
But I'm getting better at the process and it was a great learning experience. I think not too shabby for only my second studio shoot. :-) BTW, the third shot is straight out of camera. I haven't gotten around to retouching that one yet, but when I do I'll be better blending the shag and backdrop -- somehow! Will deal with that when I get to it. I just like the light and the mood, imperfections and all, and I thought the gang here would appreciate seeing the Real Deal. ;-) On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >> >> -- >> -bmw >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
