When shooting a beautiful model (am I biased?) the job of the photographer is to simply get out of the way and let their beauty shine through.
For those who think you need an expensive studio to take portraits, this was done with $25 in foamcore and a $70 reflector. More foamcore could be substituted for the reflector to lower the cost even more. One flash was used off camera to blow out the background. You can see the setup below. Light was coming in through a window eight feet up and bounced off the reflector in front of Laine. The chair with the towel was to keep the light from hitting her hat on the way in and causing a highlight.
[Oct. 7th, 2008 11:58:45 PM]
I'm hoping this ribbons so I can dedicate it to ryand who on 10/1/08 forgot I was still entering challenges... ;)
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Congrats on a well deserved ribbon. This got one of the two "10s" I gave this challenge, so I'm happy to see this at the top. Thanks also for sharing your simple set-up. Very helpful to someone like me who is intimidated by flash.
Awesome shot Jason, congrats on a very well deserved ribbon and a fav from me. I laughed aloud at reading your photographer comments. Glad to see you back on the home page. Very well deserved.
A very nice studio shot. It does however suffer from slight overexposure (the glove is burned out on my calibrated monitor) and the main light is too high. See how the shadow from the nose goes all the way down her face to the bottom of her chin? It should go so far as to touch the lips. Nice job on the fill light and a nice job lighting the white backdrop. The model has a great expression, although it is generally a good idea to ask them to just barely touch the hand to the face, not put any weight on it becuase it distorts the facial features a bit.
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