Alternate Fashion

[elffinarts]

More alternative fashion fun from a week ago. I'm slowly getting used to the very different light the monoblock slaves punch out. It's caused a really big change to my style of generally going for very open aperture and short depth of field, now shooting at f10 or smaller apertures and always at 1/500th. I cant wait to get some medium sized softboxes to make the shadows just that much softer again as the umbrellas only do so much to diffuse the light.

What I am noticing though is that when I open these shots in CS2 RAW - I am getting images that are so much sharper I find myself cloning out many specs of dust on props, skin blemishes (Ula here wasn't an issue there though) and stray hair or frayed prop edging.

I'm really glad I finally replaced my broken antique wacom, even if only for a cheaper graphire model.

For this shoot I had the services of a friend who has worked on makeup for the likes of Silverchair film clips, Pepsi ads and a lot of high end commercial work. While her work is brilliant, the tendancy of the D70 to see a depth of colour similar to slide film has Ula's face maybe needing a slight desaturation. On another shot from this night I did this by selecting her face, doing an adjustment layer with channel mixer set to 100% red and then using that masked layer in the luminousity mode.



DateTime Original: 2006:02:10 23:17:10
Exposure Bias: 1.33 EV
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Time: 1/500 sec
FNumber: f 10
Flash: Flash, Auto-Mode, Return light not detected
Focal length: 24 mm
ISO: 200
Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Max Aperture: f 3.7
Metering Mode: Spot
Model: NIKON D70

[wendellt]

more depth of field looks great for this sort of shot where there is dimension and depth in the model but no background detail
It's a lovely shot and the angle is good i'm guessing your standing on a ladder or your really tall

lighting and colour is great, my only comment is that front on on the models chest the light looks flat there, perhaps a different pose to minimize such a patch, every other segment of the image is beuatiful though.

I have never worked with softboxes but your use of them makes the scene look so graphically strong

[elffinarts]

more depth of field looks great for this sort of shot where there is dimension and depth in the model but no background detail
It's a lovely shot and the angle is good i'm guessing your standing on a ladder or your really tall

lighting and colour is great, my only comment is that front on on the models chest the light looks flat there, perhaps a different pose to minimize such a patch, every other segment of the image is beuatiful though.

I have never worked with softboxes but your use of them makes the scene look so graphically strong

Thanks mate, the background is a black felt-like card from DragonImage that just soaks up light and so long as it's dust free, I'm really enjoying using it. I'm 6' 2" so I'm not realy all that tall, and no ladder used.

I think the flat appearance of the light is due to the corsetting that flattened her upper bust. Side on shots however really emphasised a hardly there waist and more than amble bust. (and I wont make much comment on the shots of her in a spider weave- torn shirt in my gallery - ehem - it's more holes than fabric)

This was shot with two umbrellas and I'm hoping to get softboxes in the near future. Working with a pro makeup artist made the shoot a little slower but the end result FAR more appealing.

[wendellt]

i just mention the chest bit because that part of a womans body has a multitude of beautiful slopes and valleys sometimes if the light can catch this area really well

I also quite enjoyed the subtle purple tones in the carpet receedign away, it's details like this that make the picture great

overall spectacular work!

[elffinarts]

I'm hoping in that with my next shoot the lighting of those kind of curves will be explored more thoroughly. The clothing brought to this shoot had either a lot of coverage as per this shot, or next to none at all and verged on the border of punk/semi-nude glamour.

[Killakoala]

I always enjoy viewing your images, no matter what the subject, be it goth models or lightning Great stuff. Your website gallery is an enjoyable visit too. Thanks for sharing those images with us.

[elffinarts]

Thanks Steve, much appreciated.