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Behind The Lens

Location

The portrait of 'woman with curly hair' was captured in a make-shift studio. I erected a seamless backdrop from an old large piece of paper I found in a refuse bin...

Time

The image was captured during the daylight hours and I used a set of strobe flashlights. The key light had a soft box diffuser attached.

Lighting

I didn't have a flash meter available so the exposure was a bit of guess work combined with bracketing.

Equipment

The image was capture on film (transparency) on a Hasselblad camera using a 150mm lense.

Inspiration

A friend, who is a hairstylist, wanted to experiment with a new curly iron he bought for his salon and this is the result... the curling iron worked a treat.

Editing

No. No post-production at all. No photoshop. Only drum scanning of the image to convert it from film to a digital image. This is probably the only image I have in my folio on Viewbug that is 'raw', 'natural', 'original'. So, great images can be created without photoshop or any other post production intervention.

In my camera bag

I normally use Nikon gear and seem to use my D810 with Nikkor lenses most of the time. But in the past I have used a variety of formats including 5 x4 and 10x8. But, surely, it is not the camera or format to capture a good image... It is the photographer's intent.

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Don't stop experimenting and take lots and lots of photographs as often as you can. And spend time read, reviewing and appreciating the old masters of the fine art of photography.

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