Great job on the light. But your model seems to be tense. Her brow appears to be slightly furrowed and her jaw is set. I always tell models to let every muscle in their face unwind completely. Total relaxation. Otherwise, most tense up. She also appears to have a lazy eye. Her right eye is locked on the lens, but her left eye appears to be checking out your footwear. Still, very good work by you. Paul
On May 24, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > 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. -- 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.
