Oct 2009
Fashion Shoot: Naomi Part I
Well, after the fun we had with Ana last time, we where approached by Sarah who was looking for some cool stuff for her hair & make up portfolio. Better yet, she already had a model. And a plan. We where sold when she said 'China Doll' 
I would have held off to post this until all the photos were done, but I have a nice paid project which will keep me busy over the next couple of weeks meaning that personal projects like this are going to have to wait. Once it's done I will post it here as it is pretty cool and might be an interesting side of the business we haven't really explored. I knew however I couldn't let poor Naomi go with any photos for a couple of weeks so I picked three that I really liked and played with them today.
So let me introduce you to Naomi:
Young Naomi was a real trooper in the cold weather we had! A Thermos full of hot chocolate helped and we kept changing the scene more than normal mostly to allow her to put her coat on between shots.
All three of these shots where taken with the Nikon 105mm Micro VR f/2.8 which I borrowed from a friend of mine for the shoot. I am going to have to get one of those as soon as I can - its an amazing lens! This first one was a bit of fill coming from a brolly on the right hand side of the frame otherwise all natural light.
The light on this one should be pretty obvious from the catch-light in the eye! This was f/3.0 and I love the effect - as I said above, I need to get one of those lenses! I actually did hardly any post work on this, just a bit of sharpening and some smoothing on the nose which looked a bit odd this close up.
This one is definetly my favourite of the day despite my wife not liking this shot at all. This is a single spot light on her face which is my SB-600 with a grid. Out of the camera it was dark and a nice blue looking like really early morning, but I ended up draining most of the colour (little bit less so on her lips), using lot of smoothing making her look really china doll-like and adding progressive levels of extra darkening in Photoshop giving some real atmosphere. A very simple shot with nothing crazy done in post, but one of my favourite shots in quite a while. She really has great eyes (as you can see from the hardly touched close up above) and the glints in this shot just make it work for me.
I have plenty of other shots from this shoot and will treat them after I finish this other project which starts tomorrow and will end up with a portfolio album for her.
I also have some fairly cool shots from Sunday morning from teaching my young photography student Daniel. Once he gets a bit better I will put some more about our classes on here, but that is a few weeks away yet. Give me a chance, we have only had two classes so far!
Things are starting to look up business wise which should mean more cool photos on my blog for you guys to enjoy!
Speak to you soon...
I would have held off to post this until all the photos were done, but I have a nice paid project which will keep me busy over the next couple of weeks meaning that personal projects like this are going to have to wait. Once it's done I will post it here as it is pretty cool and might be an interesting side of the business we haven't really explored. I knew however I couldn't let poor Naomi go with any photos for a couple of weeks so I picked three that I really liked and played with them today.
So let me introduce you to Naomi:
Young Naomi was a real trooper in the cold weather we had! A Thermos full of hot chocolate helped and we kept changing the scene more than normal mostly to allow her to put her coat on between shots.
All three of these shots where taken with the Nikon 105mm Micro VR f/2.8 which I borrowed from a friend of mine for the shoot. I am going to have to get one of those as soon as I can - its an amazing lens! This first one was a bit of fill coming from a brolly on the right hand side of the frame otherwise all natural light.
The light on this one should be pretty obvious from the catch-light in the eye! This was f/3.0 and I love the effect - as I said above, I need to get one of those lenses! I actually did hardly any post work on this, just a bit of sharpening and some smoothing on the nose which looked a bit odd this close up.
This one is definetly my favourite of the day despite my wife not liking this shot at all. This is a single spot light on her face which is my SB-600 with a grid. Out of the camera it was dark and a nice blue looking like really early morning, but I ended up draining most of the colour (little bit less so on her lips), using lot of smoothing making her look really china doll-like and adding progressive levels of extra darkening in Photoshop giving some real atmosphere. A very simple shot with nothing crazy done in post, but one of my favourite shots in quite a while. She really has great eyes (as you can see from the hardly touched close up above) and the glints in this shot just make it work for me.
I have plenty of other shots from this shoot and will treat them after I finish this other project which starts tomorrow and will end up with a portfolio album for her.
I also have some fairly cool shots from Sunday morning from teaching my young photography student Daniel. Once he gets a bit better I will put some more about our classes on here, but that is a few weeks away yet. Give me a chance, we have only had two classes so far!
Things are starting to look up business wise which should mean more cool photos on my blog for you guys to enjoy!
Speak to you soon...
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