Feather in Tones
Tillie Feather
Tillie Feather
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Location
This image was taken at Studio RoRo near Tayport in Scotland, it's a private studio with great lighting equipment.Time
This was taken at about 10 am....we did 2 hours in the studio and 2 hours on a nearby beachLighting
The lighting for this was fairly standard 'Rembrandt' lighting, 45* angled to the model and 45* downwards using a long stripbox on a single light.on the right.Equipment
Bowens studio flash heads and a strip box....and the cylinder propsInspiration
The model Tillie had spent the last year or so in the gym so I knew the muscle definition would be good, with that in mind I directed her into more unusual shapes and poses so that the muscles would stand out more than usual and hence pick up the light for more curvature. .Editing
Simple post processing was used....cropping, skin smoothing using Imagenomic Portraiture, high pass sharpening then finally SIlver Efex for the black and white version. All very subtle adjustments, nothing heavy handed. The model and lighting do most of the work.In my camera bag
A Nikon D810 camera with my most used lens, the Tamrom 28-70mm and a Nikon 70-200mm. Lesser used items are a Yunguno flashgun, 50mm prime lens, Tamron 19-35mm and various lens filters which mainly just add weight and are used about twice a year. For studio work its always the D810 and the 28-70mmFeedback
Studio lighting can often seem like the dark arts to photographers who are unused to the studio, but you can get good results from very simple setups. The trick with this type of image is to get it roughly right then fine tune the lighting, ie move the heads around to pick up the best of the light and shadows. I will often switch off the studio lights and use the modelling lights on the flash to work out which angles to set the flash heads. Then I shoot everything slight underexposed by almost a full stop, this due to the fact that skin can burn out very easily when the model moves to a different pose or uses an action pose such as a hair flick etc etc.
