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Iris II

Model: Iris

Model: Iris
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SONY SLT-A77V

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Aperture f/2.8 ISO 50 Shutter 1/200 Focal Length 500/10

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Jan, 2014

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Awards

People's Choice in Into The Night Photo Contest

Contest Finalist in Into The Night Photo Contest

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+16

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Great pic

WoW!! Very pretty .

Love it

Just fantastic!!!

Stunning!

Spectacular portrait. Congrats on the feature.

Platinum

Beautiful!

Superb job. Congrats on being featured.

Gorgeous capture ????

beautiful! congratulations on your Feature!

speaking eyes! ... well done! :)

Love this!

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Wonderful portrait. Everything's just right.

Stunning!

Such a beauty. Good Lord!

One of the best portrait photos I have seen on this site, stunning job.

amazing portrait!

This picture is educated.

Outstanding beauty from such face and eyes. Superb feminity in fur and placed perfectly in the frame. What is she thinking?? Almost a Mons Lisa in snow..

Absolutely love this photo, everything about the image is brilliant

Magical

This is beautiful!

UGLY Chin.

Probably reaches her toes and such a horrid indentation.

Very Nice...Beautiful !

Just lovely!!! & magical..congrats

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Lovely lighting!

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Behind The Lens

Location

The photo was taken in my small home studio (it's actually a garage^^ :D )

Time

since it was done in the studio the time doesn't matter of course^^

Lighting

The picture was lighted with a flash coming from the right/front (from model's perspective) pointed at her. I've used a big octabox on the flash. The flash was very close to the subject top make the light as smooth as possible.

Equipment

The shot was taken with the Sony A77 and the Sony SAL 16-50 2.8 lens at 50mm and f2.8 for slightly shallow depth of field. The flash is actually just some cheap chinese studio flash from a brand called "golden Eagle" or something^^ For the snowflakes we used simply powdered sugar that an assistant blew right from the hand into the models direction. The bigger flakes were from postprocessing.

Inspiration

There is a "indoor blizzard" series of the famous photographer Joey L. He posted a "behind the scenes" video of this shooting on his blog once and I instantly fell in love with that setting. So I decided to try myself on that with a "low budget version" ^^ Biggest change in setting was that I chose a darker background instead of grey for the mood (though it actually was a grey background behind the model and our first shots showed this, but then I decided to remove additional flashes that were pointed towards the background to darken it on the photo)

Editing

Yes, the bigger snowflakes came from postprocessing and I did the usual retouching (skin retouching, some d&b and playing around with the colors&contrast).

In my camera bag

Back then when took this shot my usual equipment was the Sony A77 with the Sony 16-50 2.8 for studio shootings and the Sony 50 1.8 or Sony 85 2.8 for outdoor shootings. Now I've moved to the Sony A7 and mostly use the Zeiss 55 1.8 <3

Feedback

Actually this settign is the super easy and low budget version of the shots from Joey L. For first inspiration just google "Joey L. indoor blizzard" and take a look at his video about it. Then just change the expensive snow machine with lots of powdered sugar and play with the lighting. And get a broom, because you'll need it afterwards^^ The expression from the model after each shot when she "bites" into the air to capture some of the sweet powederd sugar is priceless btw ^_^

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