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Postby Oz_Beachside on Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:28 pm

yesterday had a good shoot, and we tried a few new things, and we are happy with the results, love to get your comments (both positive and negative) most appreciated.
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Postby Cre8tivepixels on Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:31 pm

Hey Mate,

5 is awesome..i really want to work with Tess!!
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Postby Oz_Beachside on Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:39 pm

Cre8tivepixels wrote:5 is awesome..i really want to work with Tess!!


thanks Dan, and I know she is interested to shoot with you also.

maybe you can fly down for our next melbourne workshop (I'm sure tessa would be happy to volunteer, then you can do a shoot after the workshop) :D
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Postby marcotrov on Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:45 pm

Great series Oz. I really like the pose and feeling you've created in #3. really love #5 as well :)
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Postby wendellt on Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:57 pm

i like the 2nd one most the pink suits the hair and the shape of the pose allows for a nice full length shot

i also like the scene in 4 but i think the light is too front on wide and flat which doesn't do justice to the mood of the scene
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Postby Oz_Beachside on Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:58 pm

wendellt wrote:i like the 2nd one most the pink suits the hair and the shape of the pose allows for a nice full length shot

i also like the scene in 4 but i think the light is too front on wide and flat which doesn't do justice to the mood of the scene


thanks wendell, that set was the first time I have ever used a smoke machine, and was also using a strip light (think it would have had a little more contrast if I masked it a little narrower.

I also had a light on her back, but think it was all absorbed/blocked by her hair, I wanted to get a nice rim light along the line of her back, but it was late in the day...

any tips on using fog machines? the fog juice it came with dissipated very quickly, and became more annoying than effective... :D
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Postby wendellt on Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:28 pm

in real life fog looks good but as soon as a flash hits it the fog looks bad like a white haze that could be misinterpretred

you can either shoot ambient light at high iso or gell the strobe so you get more mood other than that dont use fog machines i think the smoke from cigarettes look better and more elegant

regardign your strip light most times strip lights just burst a wide angle of light you need to make fins(barndoors) for it if you want to narrow that light
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Re: beauty style portraits

Postby Bindii on Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:35 pm

Oz_Beachside wrote: love to get your comments (both positive and negative) most appreciated.


Yeah... I'm thinking that if I never eat again... and spend a fortune in plastic surgery... I might have a chance of looking as good as her... ;)

Oh who am I kidding...lol..

Oh yeah... love them.. lighting...posing .. model.... its all great!
The last thing I want to do is hurt you... but it's still on the list... ;)
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Postby Oz_Beachside on Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:57 pm

wendellt wrote:in real life fog looks good but as soon as a flash hits it the fog looks bad like a white haze that could be misinterpretred


yeah, found that out on saturday, it looked mostly like over exposure (but it wasnt thanks to my reliable meter :D

I think next time, I'll keep fog WAY behind, maybe 5-10 meters, and bring it forward with focal length, shooting colored light into the fog from behind.

now, off to officeworks for some barndoors foamcore...
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