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Bodyscape

Bodyscape
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cameraCanon EOS 60D

settings Aperture 8/1 ISO 100 Shutter 1/100 Focal Length 24/1 

upload_dateJul, 2016

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6 Comments |
pietnel
 
pietnel July 14, 2016
Gorgeous
erskineisaac
 
erskineisaac September 11, 2016
WOW
_5105
 
_5105 September 30, 2016
Join the conversation. Add a comment or even better, a critique. Let's get better together!
jessicacard
 
jessicacard September 30, 2016
Love this!!!
jenmorganphotos
 
jenmorganphotos January 06, 2019
I very much want to learn this and do an entire series. Any tips?
jenmorganphotos
 
jenmorganphotos January 06, 2019
Nevermind my last comment! I am reading your notes. :)

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Behind The Lens

Location

I took this image in my studio on a cold winter day, but I made sure I got the studio warm first, I'm not an animal! ha! :)

Time

This has turned out to be one of my favorite images that I've ever shot. It was near the end of the shoot, late afternoon, and we thought we would just try something a little different from what we had been shooting previously, it seems to have worked out really well for us.

Lighting

This lighting was surprisingly simple, one strobe behind the model about 3 feet back, using a long stripbox, raised above, and angled down. I had a black v-flat laying diagonally, one edge against the backside of the model, and the far edge resting on the c-stand for the strobe, that really muted any flare from the background.

Equipment

I shot this with my Canon 60D and an L series 24-105, set to 24mm @ f/8, 1/100th at ISO100, handheld, got right down on the floor for this. One Profoto D1 strobe setup behind the model, and the studio completely dark to block out any ambient light. A few water droplets, and it just suddenly looked great! Doesn't hurt when you have a model like her to work with either. ;)

Inspiration

This was one of those "happy coincidence" moments, I had never done any bodyscapes at the time, but I had been thinking about it, I suggested the idea, showed her some concept shots and she thought it would be a great idea, so we gave it a shot! This is the first image I ever took that I had printed. In fact, I had it printed on a nice large canvas, where it hangs on my "gallery wall" at my home office now.

Editing

Very little post-processing on this, she just hit the pose perfectly. I adjusted the brightness and contrast a little, and I emphasized the droplets by painting a touch of white on the specular highlights. I also raised the blue level just a bit in the background, I felt it just set the image off a little nicer than the gray/black background of the v-flat behind her.

In my camera bag

These days, I don't leave for any shoot without my 6D, my 60D as a backup, and I always travel with my go-to lenses, a 70-200 2.8, my 24-105, a 50 1.4, and I recently added a 100mm 2.8 macro lens to my bag, which works well for both portraits, and of course, macro shots. I have at least one flash with me, and if I know I'm doing anything really creative, I toss all sorts of gear in my trunk... just in case. :) There's a battery powered Jingbei strobe in there, some light stands, reflectors, a few more flashes, a cheetah box beauty dish, and probably some other things I've forgotten too, but the backpack is 80% of what I ever need for a shoot outside the studio. Oh, and 6 camera batteries... cuz I'm paranoid. :)

Feedback

This isn't really a difficult shot to get technically. It is all about the angles though, if you can get that arch in the back, you can see a little light under her in this shot, it really makes a difference, and I *think* we used a little coconut oil on her legs to get that nice light reflection. But I would say just take your time, play with poses and angles, and you should be able to find one that works, keep the "feeling" you're going for in mind, and try and create a pose that expresses something along those lines. I think the less information you end up with in the picture, the more interesting it is, at least for this look... for me, there's just enough in this picture to let my brain build all the information that I can't see, hints and suggestions of shapes that fade into the blackness...And of course, start with a beautiful model. :)

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