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Oct, 2016Views
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Behind The Lens
Location
This photo was taken in my home studio in Calgary, Alberta, CanadaTime
If I can recall correctly it was on a Saturday or Sunday morning just before noon. This question is probably more applicable to an outdoor photo rather than a studio shot.Lighting
The lighting for this shot is two 4' gridded strip boxes from Paul C. Buff on either side, just slightly more towards the back of the model pointing forward to the camera so as to not bounce any light on the grey paper background.Equipment
The photo was taken with a Nikon D300 and a 24-70 Nikkor lens. The shot was hand-held and as stated above I used two Paul C. Buff studio strobes.Inspiration
I have a lot of weird stuff in my studio. When I get the opportunity to work with an incredible model, like Audrey in this photo, I like to experiment and try things. I will often grab something and hand it to the model and say "play with this". I am usually surprised at how well it works out. In this case I had a piece of net from a broken golf shot practice net. She didn't disappoint as she added emotion to the scene and manipulated the net as if it was a piece of silk draping across her body.Editing
My post processing is often very simple. I do some simple skin retouching to remove anything obvious and then I run it through Imaginomic Portrature plug-in to do an overall skin softening. Then I might use Silver Efex Pro from DXO to try a nice B&W treatment, or if I am in the mood I might play around a bit with saturation / contrast / levels to see what happens.In my camera bag
Nikon D300, SB 800 & SB900, 24-70mm f2.8 Nikkor, 50mm f1.4 Nikkor, 105mm Prime f2.8 Nikkor, batteries, CF Cards, Gradient Filters, and a mish-mash of other stuff.Feedback
You have probably heard before that you need to Make Pictures, not Take Pictures. I think it is very easy for people to point a camera at something or someone and press the button... literally documenting what is in front of them. That has its place, but a picture should tell a story, and to do that you have to start with the story. Be creative, try things that you have never tried before. Light is really fascinating when you control it, take it away or bring it partially back. Put lights at different angles, break the rules... you never know what can happen.
