BendTheLight
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Contest Finalist in Shadows Photo Contest by Focal Press
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akhtarkhan
March 10, 2015
Fantastic use of creative lighting, fabulous portrait composition....terrific capture. Congrats on the feature.
KIRWAN
March 10, 2015
Amazingly cool, amazingly composed and just generally brilliant and beautiful. I LOVE this!
BrianpSlade
March 15, 2015
A nice exposure of captured ambient light and shadow....well done and congrats....Brian
BendTheLight
March 15, 2015
Thank you, although it wasn't ambient light...it was a studio flash behind that blind. :)
jld83photography
April 07, 2015
Perfectly captured, Amazing! I can feel the suspense oozing out of this capture :-)
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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!