Hey, I thoroughly enjoyed these! I know he was there in a supporting role but at least there was a guy in there.
And many points to you for portraying models of various ages and sizes in a positive and glamorous way. All very well executed and as Bruce said, everyone bad fun. Great stuff! Cheers, frank On 17 February, 2014 3:50:53 PM EST, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >A friend thought that would be fun to set up a pinup photo shoot at >her house, with people to do hair, makeup etc. and asked me to be one >of >the photographers. Sorry Frank, all of the primary models were women, >though we had a couple guys on hand as extras. > >I tried shooting with a high key background, used white board from >home depot for the floor and white seamless for the back. I didn't have >enough light on the back, so I had issues to deal with in post. Also >the seams between the floor panels needed to be dealt with in post. >I did discover that I could drag the spot remover in lightroom to >remove a line, so that made things easier. > >I was never really happy with my lighting, but it wasn't a total >failure. > >Lighting was a 7' umbrella on the model (no fill light and just >the room as fill reflector) and a smaller softbox on the background. >Since the stage was in a corner, I only had one side, and the front >for setting up lights. > >I shot about 1300 frames, and narrowed it down a bit for this set: >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157641128305303/ > >Comments and suggestions on improving the lighting appreciated. “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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.
