Obviously made from 3 different photos. Shot with the exact same settings except for the one to the far right was at 1/200 of a second, don´t know why I did that as it made it slightly darker than the other ones. Oh well, mistakes are so that you can learn from them. I also regret having the girls on the photo to the left that were in the backround slightly bigger as they were closer, if I had time to reshoot this I would have corrected the problem but at this point I don´t really care (It´s 2 am here in Iceland and I am getting veeeeery sleepy as I submit this).
Came out pretty much as I had imagined it. Many thanx to Steinar Hugi for lending me his studio and helping me set up the lights and also ideas for post processing. Lit with 4 bowens esprit heads, 3 with softboxes and one honeycomb to give backligting to the front models hair.
The models names is Kolbrun, Kristin and Berglind. Some of you might recognize Kolbrun as she was also my model for "live music".
Also the idea is not my own even if I did change it a little bit, I got it after seeing a shot by Runolfur Gudbjornsson, I am going to contact him to see if I can link to his image.
Post processing was a whole lot, obviously stitching these shots together is one thing. Used a filter, "lens blur" to blur out the girls in the backround a bit more and levels to lighten them. Healing brush, clone tool, curves, decreased saturation and resharpened after resizing.
Edit after the challenge:
WOW! Can´t say that I imagined winning this challenge, not by a long shot, I wasn´t even sure it would break a 6 so MANY thanx for all the comments and favorites and of course ratings. I must admit that it also feels great to be the first one to ribbon with the 5D, I wasn´t sure about the purchase and I felt like I wasn´t really worthy of the camera upgrade as I wasn´t exactly making the most of my 20D as it was but this makes me feel a whole lot better about it...
Cheers :D
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Very perfect. I would like a grungy image done the same way, something emotional. But I can't flaw the image. This image doesn't make my favorites but you do. Ace.
I put this in a recent conversation and figured it really belongs as a comment on the photo directly. Great shot....
I find it hard to come up with a composition with a few people in it that is more than the usual blah blah stuff. This one keeps the connection between the 3 people in each frame while clearly highlighting the individual. While each shot is good as a seperate thing the set of 3 just work well together and I loved the idea. It really does convey the friends theme between the 3 girls.
Congratulations. I didn't vote on this challenge, but this is a well deserved blue. Perfect example of what happens when you combine great models with great talent. Excellent job.
Massa flott... Ferlega vel lýst hjá þér, Duglegur.
Þú ert orðinn dullu góður í þessu, eru þetta nýju ljósin þín?
Og góð og vel útfærð hugmynd, betra heldur en allt þetta ameríska ramma drasl í þessari keppni...
Just toooooo Hot! I thought Icelanders only took pictures of ice and snow...here we have it... ICE, SNOW and CHINOOK all rolled into one! I can see this image in a fashion magazine...great shot!!
Til hamingju með þetta!
Annars finnst mér að þín mynd og einhverjar örfáar aðrar séu eins og átti að gera þetta. Þ.e. búa til eina samstæða mynd með endurtekningum úr öðrum þremur!
Congrats. Knew this would do well. I was thinking that this would make an awesome way of displaying fashion on a web site if it had motion added to it so that they actually rotated.
This one is my favorite of the bunch. It manages to tell a story while at the same time repeating itself 3 times in 3 different ways. I also like the idea of a triptych without borders. I hadn't even considered such a thing until I ran across a couple of them here in the challenge. I think your implementation was the best. 10
This is a great concept and photo. I am sure this will be a lot of people's favorites. Non-member so I can't vote on it but thought this is worthy of a comment. Best of luck!
Have I seen any of these women before?
This looks like something out of a magazine, great posing great lighting, great execution. Going in my fav's and for now, my pick for the ribbon (that's a bad sign because I never pick the winner ;)
Very nice, but it just isn't obvious that this is divided into three panels. Yes, if you look really closely you can tell that the background girls are the same three you see in the foreground but in different pairings, but an obvious division (frame) would fit what people traditionally think of as a triptych. 7
This is just totally outstanding! Brilliant idea, executed flawlessly. Superb use of dof. Awesome lighting. Great models, terrific poses. Very creative. Love it! Well done, indeed.
This is a fantastic concept for a triptych. Very smooth.
I do have a little qualm with the pair in the background of the blonde girls panel being closer than the other 2 pairs. I can imagine it wasnt easy - i used 1 person and had a hard enough time!
Great shot. I love the borderless set up. Should be in a fashion magazine. I will pick at one tiny thing however, the girls in the back of your left frame aren't on the same plane as in the other two frames. Hey, still gave it a 10!
Very nice! The choice of the white background and the sharp focus only on the front figures is excellent. (would give a 10 if I could vote, how about a favorite instead)
5 - Good idea. Criticism; for this type of shot, all 'frames' need to be uniform, at least compositionally, or else at least 1 & 3, in my opinion. Perhaps the blonde in the middle would have been more 'balanced', not sure. The 'missing' separating frames works, and even with visible frames, I think would work too - just be, obviously, a different 'shot/series' again. It has a studio/clean feel to it, which I do not think adds to the characters. It is also a 'personal' type shot (eg; good for these three girls), but for a 'stranger', me, has no 'personal appeal', if that makes sense.
Nicely done. I like the fancy that this image portrays. I'm still inclined in providing a frame around each shot so as to "separate" them and make each one an individual image combined to form the triptych. The DOF is excellent and I am sure this would rank high in this challenge. 8
This is one of two 10's I gave after rating all the pictures. Funny thing is, I was so close to submitting this one for DQ. LOL Then I figured, someone with that much talent knew better than to submit 4-6 pictures and I took a closer look. Very creative and well done. 1st or 2nd place is my guess ;)
This looks great. It's very original. I would never have thought of this idea and it is so well executed with the white background and the great poses. Three good shots within their own right. Congrats you should be very proud of this one.
I would just say "wow" but that doesn't even come close. Can't suggest anything useful either, as I can't think how to improve on this. What absolutely stunning models, all of them, al lovely as any I have seen. Wow!
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