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What She Saw...

Film Noir colour style

Film Noir colour style
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Canon EOS-1D Mark II N

settings

Aperture f/5.6 ISO 100 Shutter 1/200

upload_date

Apr, 2013

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4026

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+1.1k

Awards

Creative Winter Award

Curator's Selection

Top Shot Award 21

Legendary Award

Featured

Contest Finalist in Faces And Places Photo Contest

Runner Up in Shadows Photo Contest by Focal Press

Contest Finalist in Shadows Photo Contest by Focal Press

Featured

Superb Composition

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Outstanding Creativity

+160

Top Choice

+117

Absolute Masterpiece

+105

Peer Award

+72

Superior Skill

+40

All Star

+10

Magnificent Capture

Genius

Virtuoso

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Top 10 rank week 2

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Nice use of lighting

Thank you.:)

This is fantastic!

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great lighting eyes really pop

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PRO

stunning shot,very unique

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Great shot!

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Outstanding

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Fabulous portrait & lighting. Congratulations on being Featured.

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Terrific lighting and portrait. Congrats on being featured.

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beautiful! love the lighting and the story this shot tells!

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Beautiful light and composition, congrats on your feature!

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PRO+

superb image, congrats

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Beautiful lighting in this beautiful portrait capture!Congrats

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Love the use of selective light!

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Platinum

Love your use of light in this. Amazing.

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Good work. Of low light

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Fantastic use of creative lighting, fabulous portrait composition....terrific capture. Congrats on the feature.

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Amazingly cool, amazingly composed and just generally brilliant and beautiful. I LOVE this!

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Wonderful Job

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Platinum

Outstanding!! Congratulations on being featured!

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Love this image. My favorite of the day.

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A nice exposure of captured ambient light and shadow....well done and congrats....Brian

Thank you, although it wasn't ambient light...it was a studio flash behind that blind. :)

very mysterious, and the lighting makes it dramatic! great job

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Perfectly captured, Amazing! I can feel the suspense oozing out of this capture :-)

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PRO

amazing shot

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Atmospheric

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nice light

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You have the Magic

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Great Shot.

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Well done!

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Congratulations!

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Great detail and light, congrats on your feature

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fantastic

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exceptional!!!!......wow...wow... & wow!!!

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Fantastic portrait.
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Very nice!

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Very nice! Wonder who the model is?

Shoo! A fabulous model, that's who! ;)

excellent photo

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Platinum

Fabulous!

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Behind The Lens

Location

Taken in the studio. A simple small room I use for various photo projects.

Time

All studio lighting, so not dependent on time of day.

Lighting

I had the light (one light) behind the blind, angled upward. The blind itself had a slight downward angle to the slats, and so I used the blind as a way of "gridding" the light, almost. I made it so the bands coincided with promenant features such as eyes and mouth.

Equipment

Canon 40D (now dead), 50mm 1.8, handheld. Single old Courtenay stusio light behing the blind.

Inspiration

I'd seen many photographs using a blind, but they often contained a whole person. I hadn't the space to do that, and so the model and I improvised. It became a sort of "peeking through the blind" photograph. I took many more, some with me shooting through the blind, others on the same side as the model. This was the most effective.

Editing

Very little. Apart from a RAW conversion, there was little to do. Dropped the shadows a little around the model, cloned the odd area where the light caught unwated background objects. In the end, however, it was approx 2-3 minutes of editing all together.

In my camera bag

I now use an old 1D mark IIn. I have basic lenses, such as the 50mm 1.8, 70-300mm, and an old 28-80mm. Nothing fancy. A triplod, which I used rarely.

Feedback

It was all about balancing the light through the blind. Angles of blind and lightwere important. Other than that, just shoot the eyes!

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What She Saw...

Film Noir colour style

Behind The Lens

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