Buda portrait
Advertisement for a store with oriental decoration items.
Advertisement for a store with oriental decoration items.
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Location
This photograph was taken in the warehouse of a decoration store, without the conventional resources of a studio.Time
In the middle of afternoon.Lighting
There was only one large open window, where I improvised a curtain to orient and reduce the source of the natural light source to get the side shadow with the desired size and definition for the image. I also used a source of yellow light (abajour) to fill the shadow on the model and statuette of the Buddha.Equipment
Canon EOS 60D with a fixed 50mm f 1.8 lens on a tripod without flash.Inspiration
That was a really cool job. The objective was to create a year-end advertising campaign for a decoration store - Kamasan. The shop owner's boyfriend, a renowned local chef, was flipping through a Taschen book about iconic 20th century photographs and suggested a remake of Man Ray's famous image - Noire et Blanche - published at French Vogue in 1926. We made an adaptation, replacing the ebony mask with the Buddha statuette, one of the items in the store. The result was printed for a billboard and in a weekly magazine with regional circulation.Editing
At the end, there was a small intervention (imperceptible) with photoshop in the model's ear, for pure aesthetic reasons.In my camera bag
I like to go to my jobs with two camera bodies (Canon 60D & 550D in that time) with all my lenses.Feedback
I would like to carry my portable mini studio for this job, but sometimes, we need to use creativity and improvise, remembering light source concepts is possible to create professional photographs... ;-)
