Lila Star Vintage #18
Adding a touch of color to the 30's 40's look with Miss Lila Star.
Adding a touch of color to the 30's 40's look with Miss Lila Star.
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Apr, 2014Views
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Awards
Contender in the Visual Poetry Project
Zenith Award
Staff Winter Selection 2015
Top Choice
Superb Composition
Absolute Masterpiece
Outstanding Creativity
All Star
Exceptional Contrast
Jaw Dropping
Magnificent Capture
Peer Award
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Location
If you really want to make images u find a way. I shot this upstairs at my old job before i became a full time photographer. They used it as a storage space for their old stuff so i would clear out a corner set up using whatever i could find up there or borrow stuff from friends and hull it up there for a shoot. I remember asking if i could shoot up there after work, they looked at me like was crazy but didn't care.Time
I think Laya was booked 6 to 9 pm but we shot till midnight easy. It was our 3rd time working together so the energy was great.Lighting
I wanted to get a vintage hard edge look from the 30's and 40's but softer shadows on face so the lighting was very precise and it took a while, but Laya just held the pose. I did quite bit of testing at home before the shoot to find the balance between the strobe in the reflector vs the strobe in the parabolic umbrella for the main light source.Equipment
Canon 5d mK III Canon 50mm 1.2L A tripod (don't remember the brand but it did have the Manfrotto 410 3 way tripod head) shooting tethered to a laptop. 3 Alien Bee 800s, 1in a 5 inch reflector, 1in 5ft or 7ft parabolic umbrella no front diffuser, 1 in a shuffler hitting just the paper and the Paul C Buff 800w ring light with a grid just out of frame for the face.Inspiration
Laya, my model loved vintage stuff and owned a ton of clothes. She would send me pics of outfits and i would take care of the rest. We worked together at least 5 times before she went on to do Vintage Burlesques shows for a company that ended up hiring me to shoot their promo stuff.....Editing
I pulled a lot of the color out of this image, wanted the feeling of black and white but felt the picture need tone. Did a bit of skin work that's about it.In my camera bag
Today because i have to be able to handle everything from product and usage photos under video lighting to shooting in live view mode via remote because the camera is mounted to a Movie Bird super cane or out on the water shooting from one boat to another with a pitch man, my 2 go to cameras are the new Canon 1DX MK3 and the 5D MK 4. I never go out without my 50 and 85mm 1.2 L Primes ( i love the look of these 2 pieces of glass) and my 100mm 2.8L is macro prime. Only 2 zooms that live in my bag are the 16-35 F2.8 and the 28-105 F4 but on the right job the 100-400 f4.5, the 70-200 2.8 and the 180 3.5 macro prime have proven their worth.Feedback
Do your homework, then test test test before your shoot! I went and looked at pictures from the 30's and 40's, studied camera angles, light placement. Then worked how i was going to emulate the look and had some clear ideas about what i wanted to take from that vintage style but more importantly, i knew that i had to add my own thing to it to get the light to what i envisioned.
