Was introduced to a lovely lady who wanted to do a creative shoot. I suggested Hollywood glamour ala George Hurrell and she said yeah ...
http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/7262010996/lightbox/ This is the first of a few I'll be retouching. The goal was B&W, but I couldn't resist keeping this one colour. The shoot took place yesterday in The Gallery Studio Cafe in New Toronto. There's a piano, which of course we made use of, and a nicely decorated bar with a big ol' espresso machine, which also made it into some shots. We basically had the run of the place. Dorothy enlisted two of her ex-colleagues (she was an on-air personality with a talk show on Rogers cable TV) for makeup and hair and they did a superb job. I have BTS shots of the two of them working on Dorothy simultaneously. I wanted to get the "focussed-light with rapid fall-off" look typical of George Hurrell's work, so I used the ring-light-in-a-softbox that I created especially for the shoot and tested on my wife last week. George used multiple big hotlights with fresnel lenses to get his look, so we clearly would only be able to approximate it but I think we didn't do too badly. He also spent hours dodging and burning to get his deep shadows and body contouring, so at least that part I'll be able to emulate accurately! :-) K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 39mm/f:8.0, 100 ISO, 125th sec. AF160 ringlight in 18" Westcott Apollo softbox on monopod, held above and in front of subject's face. AF540 in 42" silvered umbrella for fill, camera-left. AF540 with snoot for hair, well back camera-right. Cowboy Studios radio triggers. Lr and Ps for post and retouching. Comments welcome! -- -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.
