mattjphotography

The Bookman

Taken while testing out my beauty dish and newest prop, an old book that cost me 50p :)

Taken while testing out my beauty dish and newest prop, an old book that cost me 50p :)
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Aperture f/9.0 ISO 200 Shutter 1/160 Focal Length 200/10

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Feb, 2015

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Great composition!

great image!

great toning, very nice portrait!

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Absolutely amazing... looking forward to seeing your photos pop up on viewbug!! Welcome!!!

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Excellent editing, great shot!

This is GREAT!!!! Welcome to Viewbug my friend and I really love work work!!! Bravo!!

Bello scatto. Una foto molto cinematografica.

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Very nicely done!

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Great work. Welcome to View Bug.

Great concept. The high contrast really works well here.

This is SO awesome! I can't wait to see future work by you!!

Love this shot.

I love this shot, it's realy great Welcome among us in ViewBug !

I love your work ! Welcome to view bug :) Andrea

I love LOVE your work! Every shot. You are an artist! This is tremendous composition!

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Great Image! Welcome to VB

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Es impresionante la elaboraciÃ³n de esta fotografÃa. Felicidades por un trabajo tan bueno.

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Wonderful portrait

Thanks everyone for the kind words and the welcome messages to viewbug :)

Nice work!

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What a terrific image! Beautiful lighting.....

Love this photo, well taken and nice post processing!

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unique work, I can see that your work will be admired the world over, congrats on joining view bug

beautiful creativity

love it!

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Story within a story...love the detail and tone

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Fabulous! Very cinematic; I can just imagine all the different stories that might fit with this character!

Fantastic shot! Welcome to VB!

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Fantastik!Welcome to Viewbug!

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Outstanding image.

Welcome to viewbug. Nice capture.

I love the lighting, Great job!

Great idea!

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Love the image and the creativity!!!

great portrait

Awesome just love this you are so creative :)))

Fantastical! I can't stop looking at it!

Fantastic -nice work

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Superb! congratulations!

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Congratulations, Matt! :D

Thanks :)

Stunning portraiture, perfectly lit and dramatically exposed, your 50p buy as simple as it is adds so much to the scene. Technically and artistically wonderful. Bravo!

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Love it! Congratulations on your awards, and good luck.:)

oh, that"s gorgeous ! :) I mean is like in the fairy tales, you can expect something magic to happen when read ! such a nice wibe in your work Sir! Thanks for sharing it! and SUCCESS FORWARD! A LOT!

Congrats!

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This is amazing, fantastic lighting!

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Super creative shot, Nice work. - Jake

Beautiful processing

Absolutely great photo! Welcome to ViewBug. -:)

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What a beautiful storytelling image. It's a movie, a theater, a dream composition

Great shot.

Amazing processing!

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A challenge for you.
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Magnificent work

Great image. Love it.

love the tones

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Wonderful image.

This is a masterpiece!

A great great photo. Perfect👑👑👑

magnifique

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Very Nice! Like it!

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Location

The photo of Bob was taken at my local camera club. My beauty dish had just arrived so I took it along to test out while setting the studio heads up. This way it gave everyone at the club a chance see the difference between the normal soft boxes that we use.

Time

It was taken between 7pm-9pm on a Friday night.

Lighting

I used a beauty dish at the front of the subject and a softbox to the side. The beauty dish is a sliver rather than white as I really like the contrast it gives, but just to tone it down placed a cap over the front. Pretty much a straight lighting setup other than that.

Equipment

2 x Elinchrom 400 d-lite heads, one with a beauty dish and the other used a softbox. Panasonic GH3 body & Lumix G Vario 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.

Inspiration

There were two things that inspired this shoot, one was a an old rather worn book that I managed to buy from the princely sum of 50p and the other was Bob’s outfit that he had started putting together.

Editing

The background I shot some time before, there are loads of forests and wooden areas where I live so it’s an easy background to find and shoot. I cut Bob out from the black backdrop and blended it the forest image. The colour was mostly from an adjustment layer, colour lookup using the Smokey option in device link.

In my camera bag

Shooting micro four thirds means you can fit a lot into a small-ish bag but still have a lot of choices at hand. I will take different equipment depending if I’m shooting landscapes or people, but as a rule I take my GH3 a 14-140mm, 100-300mm, 14-45mm, 45mm macro and a 7.5mm fish eye. This covers me for just about anything I need. For landscapes I’d grab my grads, a 10 stopper and a wireless remote, my main 3 lenses have screw in polarisers on all the time (I find this quicker than adding them to lenses whist out and about). If I’m shooting people speedlights, a battery pack and triggers are added to the bag.

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Take time over cutting out, it’s worth it in the long run. Think about the image, does it tell a story or make you think, images that do are more interesting and try to keep it simple, don't over complicate it.

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The Bookman

Taken while testing out my beauty dish and newest prop, an old book that cost me 50p :)

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The Bookman

Taken while testing out my beauty dish and newest prop, an old book that cost me 50p :)

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