You could probably release a bit of the tension in her face by smoothing out her brow above her left eye. Worth a try IMO. Paul On May 25, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
> I'm sure you've seen Hurrell's work, if you've seen any b&w shots of > Hollywood stars. > > https://www.google.com/search?q=george+hurrell&tbm=isch > > I agree her hair needs to be revealed more, and I need to brighten her > eye as well, per Paul's suggestion, so I'm off to do some > dodge'n'burn. :-) > > Thanks, Bob! > > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bruce, >> I don't know George Hurrell's style at all, but I enjoyed the photo. >> For such a glamorous shot, I miss her luxurious hair...needs light! >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> >> 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. > > > > > -- > -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.
