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Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:48 am**

did a quick test shoot with a friend who is a makeup artist but it turned out to be more of a fashion shoot

since it wasn't really planned, story line is a bit disjointed

window light and sb800 flash

window light afternoon sun, hue adjustment in post

2x sb800's + ambient,

window light + hue adjustment in post

make-up/styling: Kim Allison@MIU
hair: Hayley Allison
fashion: rendez-vous model: Taryn Williams@MODA Management
location: observatory hotel suite

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:05 am**

awesome stuff as usual. great range of styles you've shown here! first one is just dreamy

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:12 am**

Very nice Wendell and very innovative on the first

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:15 am**

Love your work as usual

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:23 am**

Great stuff and colour, Wendell. Was this the one you told me you'd done last week?

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:57 am**

Fantastic, Wendell! I like all of them, but the first one is outstanding - great idea on fliping the image to give a floating/flying perception.

Alex

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:04 am**

I like the tones, you always make them blend rather than having drastic contrasting tones or colours.

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:47 am**

First image looks like she's floating or walking

All good images.

Mark

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:23 am**

Love your work,

#1 cool, #4 superb!

Fab

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:38 pm**

As always I love your work, simply stunning!!

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:07 pm**

Nice shots wendell. I really like the abstract composition of the horizontal cupboard in #1. I also like the colours in #3. Just superb.

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:52 pm**

love the first one !! got confused for a few seconds

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:18 pm**

All great, especially #4. Would like to see the right side of her face not covered though.

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:34 pm**

thanks everyone for the comments much appreicated

Leigh not sure if i toold you about this one or some other one did quite afew tests in the last 2 weeks
but either way you met Kim of my make-up artists

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:13 pm**

Great stuff Wendell. Good use of lighting. My favourite is the second one. The only thing I dislike about the third is the lamp poking out of her head.

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:03 pm**

Now that first shot is something special, love the composition

Posted: **Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:21 pm**

#1 is awesome wendell i love it

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:07 am**

All awesome shots. Love the first!

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:12 pm**

Love them all. Up to your usual high standard, Wendell.

Cheers

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:34 pm**

Wendell, #1 is very clever, and I really like the mood of #4.

I'm a fan of the way you manage to achieve "sexy" while still being tasteful.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:49 pm**

gorgeous use of light, I really like 1 and 4!!

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:54 pm**

macka wrote:I'm a fan of the way you manage to achieve "sexy" while still being tasteful.

i'm going to have to ME TO that one!!!

i believe the saying is that its easy to take nice pictures of pretty girls... these aren't nice pictures... they are brilliant!

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:48 pm**

Man, thats the stuff, awesome as usual Wendellt...........i LOVE the first one.......wow, took me two looks, i thought she was jumping at first!!

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:53 pm**

thanks guys and gals i appreciate the feedback
it's always nice to hear that i have taste

Posted: **Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:53 am**

Wendell

Great images. The past 3 weeks I've done 2 shoots and used the model to do some 2 x SB800 and the D200, not the D2Xs and the results to date have not been that great. The 2 x SB800's are mounted on lighting stands and using white umbrella's. The SB800's are in TTL mode and the D200 flash is command (no flash) mode only. Tried shooting through and boucing the umbrella's. Little or no ambient light.

Would love to know a little more about how you set up the SB800's if you don't mind sharing.

Thanks Mark PS Again awsome fashion images and I admire your work.

Posted: **Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:29 pm**

hi im a fan of constrained light light shaping techniques i use is i build custom barn doors out of cardboard or make snoots and attach it to my flash so i narrow the light
i use velro and black pieces of cardboard

the rest is just angles of light where you position the light to get certain effects
in that hotel room i was getting light spill and bounce from the white walls so i carefully positioned each light in certain places not to get this

im not really a fan of bounced flash from umbrellas light distribution is too even and wide

i have two people holdign my flashes so i can move them at any time without muckign around too much with stands

Posted: **Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:32 pm**

Hi Wendell,

Appreciate the insight....

Many thanks...

Mark

Posted: **Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:33 pm**

Great Work Wendell. Your use of available light and flash is excellent,..I particuarly like #2 & #4

Posted: **Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:46 pm**

Your control of light Wendell, is excellent. My only critique would be #1 - the right hand verticals, IMO, detract from the flow of the image and could well be cropped out.

Posted: **Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:20 am**

#1 is very clever Wendell. I really like the feel in #4, it has great light for the shot.
Regards Colin

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