Stunning Chevy, Stunning model and quite a nice image. Put together using three speedlight flash's with individual modifiers...
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Stunning Chevy, Stunning model and quite a nice image. Put together using three speedlight flash's with individual modifiers
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Location
This image was taken at Boasts American Diner in Suffolk, UK; a fantastic little place hidden away on an industrial unit on the 24th June 2017. The area was very "busy" with cars tyres and the usual "stuff" you find in an industrial estate, but the beautiful Lydia and the stunning Bel Air were brought to the party! If you visit Suffolk then pay them a visit, superb location, great food, with a fantastic interior.. This was just one of the images from the evenings shoot, there were a few others, including a change of clothing to a more, farm girl set.Time
This shot was taken at 20:43, light had pretty much gone, and what there was, came from behind me camera left.Lighting
I really wanted something different from the shoot, to the right of the diner was an old industrial unit, that felt a bit evocative of an old caravan, the car carefully backed up to it and the engine left running for the headlights. The image was shot entirely with regular speedlights, and the last gasps of the sun as it set behind me. I did use Gels on the beauty dish to really bring out her magnificent red hair and warm her skin a little.Equipment
Equipment wise I used the following; Canon EOS 5D MkIII with a Canon 24-70 f2.8L lens. It was shot in manual mode, ISO 320 1/160s f10 in RAW format. There were 3 speedlights, one camera right with a Magmod grid quite high up, one camera left with a grid again quite high, and one camera left with a 16" beauty dish (connected using a Bowens adaptor) with a 1/2 CTO gel I was using Yongnuo triggers and receivers on all the speedlights, two of the speedlights were Yongnuo YN568 EXII's, the beauty dish had a Nissin Di866 mkII, which provided a little more output, they are all much cheaper than the big makes and perform very admirably. This was one of the first outings with some new Magmod lighting modifiers that had been recommended to me, and they too proved more than ample to the job, and incredibly easy to change/ modify the light. My go-to setup now consists of a speedlight with the grid fitted!Inspiration
This shot was not one that was planned, I just loved the shape of the unit, the car was moved in front, it worked, the model was directed and it worked, the shot just came together, kind of a happy accident. This was also the first image I "played with" and sent to the makeup artist and model from the evenings shoot.Editing
okay, so my workflow is usually back everything up, then I use Capture one Pro for my RAW conversion, I have Light room (comes with Photoshop CC), but I have been with Capture one Pro for about 6 years now, for me it just has an edge, and i get the image that i want, don't get me wrong I have used LR on occasions, but they were far and few in between. I now use Capture One for every image, including weddings, its my digital darkroom. Once the RAW image is processed it is taken into Photoshop; here I did a little frequency separation on the face arms and legs, this keeps the healthy natural look, rather than a plastic feel. It is easy to do now, and well worth taking the time to learn it because you have complete control. There was a little cleaning up on the paintwork for some areas of the car, before I masked in the stars. Finally I ran a graduated tint over the sky.In my camera bag
My bag consists of a 5D mkIII, a 1D mKIII, 70-200 f2.8lIS, 24-70 f2.8l, 17-40, and 100macro, all are l lenses. I have two Yongnuo flashes, a Nissan, and the recent addiiton of a Godox AD200 (amazing) with a combination of Godox X1 trigger/receivers and Yongnuo trigger/receivers.Feedback
If your going to spend money do it on lenses, one of mine is over 10 years old and still does the business, despite changing cameras several times. The Chinese flash market is brilliant, and the AD200 are fantastic bits of kit!! Find which modifiers work for you, they allow you to literally shape the light to your will, I have softboxes, flashbenders, dishes, strips, but have found the easiest to be the Magmod system, but its not cheap! If you can, borrow someones and have a play! The best piece of advice I could give is to just stretch yourself, if its easy, whats the point? I live to learn, this shot was stretching me, with new equipment too, but i am quite pleased with the outcome, yes I would change a couple of things, but hey, it was fun, I enjoyed it, the model enjoyed it, we all laughed, had fun and went home safe.