Sin City Old Town Girls
Going for the great Frank Miller dynamic!
Going for the great Frank Miller dynamic!
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Behind The Lens
Location
I got a call from a model & friend who like producing big photo shoots with multiple models and photographers. She invited me to join a "Sin City" themed photo shoot. The venue, The Underground, is a rehearsal and performance hall for bands with way too many amplifiers. The place is a byzantine maze of concrete tunnels and stairwells covered with random graffiti. This lent very well to the stark high contrast images that Frank Miller created so perfectly in his "Sin City" series of books.Time
We happened to be shooting on a Saturday afternoon. Since we were inside the building it didn't really matter. We did have to run outside and take some car shots just before sunset. They re-shot most of those the next day.Lighting
Mostly we used plug in strobes, but I had a few portable flash units of my own. I also used a new ring-light that seems so popular these days. The idea was to design the pictures with negative space, so lights were usually placed close and set to high power for blown-out whites and sharp-edged, compressed darks.Equipment
Cannon 70D with a 1.4f 50mm and a new EF-S 24mm.Inspiration
We had a lot of beautiful women in punk-apocalypse outfits. We were generally mixing and matching them. I saw the one model leaning against the wall and was suddenly inspired to add a second. Coincidentally, I ended up with the tallest and the shortest of all the models.Editing
Since the look is so stylized heavy post production work was expected. A lot of the work was done in Adobe Lightroom off RAW files. By applying the same effect to multiple shots it made finding the good shots easier. Some items were carefully fixed in Photoshop, but that was the exception rather than the rule.In my camera bag
Camera, lenses, strobes. Pre-printed generic model releases. Pens!! Gaffers tape. (Like duct tape but pulls off clean when you are done) Business cards.Feedback
You need to learn how to see in your head what an image is going to look like before or as you are setting up the shot. When the time comes you set up the shot according to what you thought of ahead of time. This saves time and brain power, because a lot of decisions have been made. That doesn't mean you can't suddenly rip it all up and take a different road, but even then you will understand, in yourself, what you are changing and why. However, your crew will think you are a fickle PIA. This shoot resulted in several great shots that I am proud of and I hope people might buy to use as posters.
