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trevorevans
December 10, 2015
Lovely mood created here, the wide angle makes the arm length awesome...
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December 11, 2015
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Behind The Lens
Location
I am pretty fortunate in that my father renovates property from time to time, and they can offer great locations to shoot in. It's good to have some variety of environments to work in, and so house renovations are great as the same rooms change over a period of time from bare and knocked out to completely decorated, so you can revisit and get something different each time.Time
This was taken late afternoon. It was a bright day but the house is located next to the river severn and fog had settled in, so it left an unusual quality to the light.Lighting
I had tried to make it look like it was shot in natural light, but the fog had stopped what would have otherwise been good directional sunlight coming in through the window. I bumped this up a bit by using an off camera flas and softbox to pick out the model more than the window would allow on its own.Equipment
I shoot handheld with either a Nikon D750 or D810 (occasionally a D4S), and this was with my old Nikon 24-70 F2.8 lens before we parted company when I dropped it down a sloping tarmac car park. It was a great lens!Inspiration
I have worked with this model several times, and she is hugely artistic and inventive, so we usually come up with some pretty abstract shots, some of which work better than others (there's a few on my viewbug portfolio). We went to the house for some inspiration and found this pretty but battered old bed sat in one of the unrenovated rooms with no mattress, so decided just to see what we could get with it. The low angle allowed me to get a tasteful nude of her and capture some of the atmosphere of the room.Editing
Just some lightroom adjustment - we wanted an air of those timeless Edward Hopper 'lone girl in contemplation' type feel to it, where the room could be any time and any place so I specifically put in some noise and grain and then went quite heavy on the noise reduction - it can sometimes be too blunt, but sometimes the slightly textureless, smoothed result can fit the photograph and I liked it here.In my camera bag
Primarily a Nikon D810 with a sigma art 50mm (amazing lens), a 24-70, a handful of speedlights and some Hahnel Tuff flash triggers. When not lugging around full kit I carry a little Sony A7R mirrorless in the car with me paired with the tiny zeiss 35mm - I find you can make that work for just about anything I am likely to shoot.Feedback
Relax, have a patient model, and try to fake the light if the real stuff won't do what you want! Also with a wide angle and tight room, make whichever is your closest most obvious vertical the upright one, the nearest bedpost in this shot - that will always draw the eye, the others can veer off with less impact.