Ice Queen
Marie is always a pleasure to work with, and I love her ink work!
Marie is always a pleasure to work with, and I love her ink work!
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Aug, 2014Views
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Location
This photo was taken in my home studio. We're lucky enough to have an extra room that, in theory, could be a bedroom ... but it's in a weird place in the house (and it's big enough for a full 9ft seamless setup), so I just use it as a studio.Time
According to the metadata I just looked at in Lightroom, this was taken at "exactly" 3:34 (and 43 seconds) PM. I put exactly in quotation marks, because I'm notorious for forgetting to set the clocks in my cameras.Lighting
Well, I don't know how y'all define "worth sharing", but tend to be verbose and overshare everything about my life, so here goes ... the lighting on this one was actually pretty simple, one einstein off to the right and a little above, with a Paul C Buff large octabox. I had a Westcott 5-in-1 reflector (using white) for a little bit of fill from the left. There was a lamp on in the room as well, but that had no effect on the photo ... I just thought it was worth sharing.Equipment
Motorola Razor, 1st Generation. Kidding. 5DmkII, Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L (Not the new one. I want the new one, just sayin.), no tripod, and lighting was mentioned aoInspiration
Marie brought the headpiece thingamajig, so we thought it would be a nifty idea to do a semi-moody/semi-ethereal "Ice-queen" look.Editing
I live A LOT in Photoshop, but want to keep the post really simple on this one. All done in LR5 (bw conversion, contrast, curves, etc).In my camera bag
Hmm ... 72% of the time my bag contains 5dmII body, 24-70 f/2.8, 50 f/1.8, pocketwizards, speedlite, batteries, loose change, 2 candy wrappers, lens cloth, business cards, iphone charger. The other 28% of the time, it contains all of the previously mentioned plus the following: 70-200 f/2.8, 16-35 f/2.8, laptop, ipad, ostomy supply kit (I don't have a large intestine any more due to Crohn's disease, so I like to be prepared for emergencies, becuase #safetyfirst), a larger amount of loose change.Feedback
Hmmm ... advice is not my best skillset, so here goes: Just go try. Maybe you'll fail. Maybe not. Have fun in the process. Examine what you did right. Examine what you did wrong. Regroup. Move on to the next idea.
