craigcolvin

Symmetry

Oct, 2014

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Wow beautiful work.. well done

Good job!!!!

Excellent angles and symmetry.

Great Shot

I stare at this and try to figure out if its photoshop magic or s real reflective surface, either way its beautiful, and inspiring!

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Gorgeous...

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Beautiful work. Voted in Reflecctions

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Beautiful artistry, well balanced. Bravo!

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Very graphic, and expertly executed! Congrats!

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beatiful artistic work

this is so perfect!! You inspire me!

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Beautiful lines and symmetry. Terrific work.

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amazing shot ,love it

Love the geometry

Stunning

great shot

This is beautiful!

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Great image

Very Nice Shot...

I love this, absolutely great piece of art!

excellent fantastic shot

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Love this pose very well done

superb composition

Very clever, it's a great shot, Well done

Outstanding

I have never seen such a beautiful pose of the female form. A+ for artistic creativity. Also, A+ for the model's ability to pull it off.

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Quite wonderful - a lovely photo

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken in my studio in San Jose. This was part of a body of work I started several years ago. Whenever I was shooting a model in the studio I would devote a portion of time to shooting these reflection photos.

Time

This shot was taken in the latter portion of a 3 hour shoot. We spent 30 minutes trying different poses that would result interesting reflections.

Lighting

The light was fairly typical studio lighting. There were to softboxes on either side of the camera pointed directly at the model. This was done to eliminate shadows.

Equipment

This was shot with a Canon 5DmkII using a 24-70 f/2.8L lens at 57mm. The lighting was done with 2 AlienBee 800 strobes.

Inspiration

This was part of a reflection series that I have been working on for several years. The first photo was by accident, the model did an interesting pose and I liked the symmetry of it. So I started asking all models to do flexible, symmetrical poses. Some were more flexible that others, but every one came up with at least one unique pose.

Editing

Whenever a model is involved I do post-processing to clean the skin, remove blemishes and do a slight softening of the skin. I had tried various reflective materials to get the reflection in this image but none gave me the look I wanted. So this reflection was done in Photoshop. I inverted the image, blurred it slightly with Gaussian blur and lowered the opacity to make it look like a reflection.

In my camera bag

Besides my Canon 5DmkII, I always have a 24-70mm f/2.8L and a 70-200mm f/2.8L when doing model shoots. I often carry other lenses as well, a 50mm f/1.4, 17-40mm f/4, and a 24-105mm f/4L. I also have 5-7 Pocket wizards and a Sekonic L-358 Light Meter

Feedback

The key to getting a shot like this is to have a model who is flexible. They should pose such that all body parts touching the floor are in a line parallel to the plane of the camera. You should also shoot from a very low angle, the lower the better. I typically lay down on the floor and rest my camera directly on the floor.

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Symmetry

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