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melissarichardson

Lion's Mane

Jan, 2014

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Contest Finalist in Photoshop World Photo Contest

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Exceptional Contrast

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Very cool shot!!!

He looks like a Nordic God. Wowzers

Great title! It is the first thing that grabs you! Great creativity!

Great portrait, congrats on your feature!

Wow....
great potrait

Like, Like, Like

Fabulous portrait. Congratulations.

Congratulation on your feature!

Fantastic,what a luxurious beard,Congrats!

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Great portrait and detail. j Congrats on your feature.

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wonderful feature shot! congrats

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Great portrait. Congrats. - Jake

Write a commentGorgeous photo, the details are amazing.

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Congratulations!

Great Detail in the beard!

Wow. this is beautiful ....

Wonderful!

Fabulous profile shot and what a wonderful beard .... congratulations on the feature :)

That beard is glorious.

Excellent Shot

perfect beard. amazing portrait.

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The pirate Redbeard returns!

Awesome!

Great portrait shot! Congrats.

this guy should win best beard award,well done really nice shot

Great creativity!!! congrats!!!

Intriguing.

Great image. :)

Thats an Impressive set of whiskers, Great shot, Intense.

Epic beard! ... ac nice shot as well.

Class!!

Lumber Jack Status

Great face!

Awesome.... what a look.

Now thats cool!

So greatly done! Powerful!

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Nice foto

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Could Zac Browne, give him a listen !!!

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Behind The Lens

Location

In my home studio--which is just a converted dining room but it is the open space I need to move lights around and play.

Time

Around 10:30 at night. This is my husband, and so we waited till the kids were all in bed and the house had quieted down a bit.

Lighting

This was a work around lighting set up for me. My skyport for my Elinchrom BXRI had broken so I turned on a constant light source directly behind him and flagged off just the foot square behind his head that I needed for the dark background. This allowed the light to hit his hat and beard from the edges. The fill light in the front was just light bounced from the main behind his head and directed down to light his face.

Equipment

Camera: Nikon D700, handheld Lens: Nikon 85mm 1.4 SS: 1/40th ISO: 200 Flagged spiderlite from the back, reflector in the front

Inspiration

We wanted to document his beard. Military personnel rarely have the opportunity to grow facial hair like this and he was going back to work the next morning. It is one of a series we took that night. He shaved his head and beard in stages as he went so we have some with mohawks, handlebar mustaches and more.

Editing

I did do a bit of tonal contrast and sharpening on his face to minimize some of the flare I was getting from shooting right into the light behind him. I also cleaned up a bunch of stray hairs and did basic color corrections.

In my camera bag

My Nikon D700, and the Nikon 14-24mm 2.8, 35mm 1.8?? (it wasn't expensive but I love this lens), 60mm macro, and 85mm 1.4. I have also been playing around lately with an Olympus OMD an some m4/3 lenses and that has been a lot of fun too.

Feedback

Just play with what you have and experiment with your lighting and your composition to make what you have work. My main lighting equipment broke so I made due with what I had. Later in the series I ended up using girl scout cookie boxes to snoot my speedlights for some of the mohawk shots where my shutter speed either needed to go above 1/40th or I had to have a flash to freeze his motion. If I'd have given up when my normal light stopped working I'd have missed making some of my favorite shots. There are a lot of ways to use a single light source to make it do more than one job and this shot is a decent example of that.

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