garyhurdman

Tanya

A last one from my Tanya shoot.

A last one from my Tanya shoot.
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Apr, 2018

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Behind The Lens

Location

This picture of Tanya was taken at a local studio, Aura Photographic Studio in Great Barr, UK. It's a studio I use a fair bit, the owner is a good chap and it's right on my doorstep.

Time

The time of day for this image is a little irrelevant, but I took it one Wednesday evening in the summer of 2018.

Lighting

I'd taken similar images with other model. I showed Tanya one of my previous images and said we could do better. She is a hard working model, up for the challenge and really bendy so it was fun doing shooting this image. It's one of several that we put together that evening. So I already had an idea of how I was going to light it. I had a two lights, one each side and just to the front of Tanya. The light to the left is about a half stop brighter for no other reason that I tend to like more contrasty lighting. It wouldn't have hurt the image to light her entirely evenly.

Equipment

The equipment is almost irrelevant, you can do this with any camera. I took this using my Nikon D850, a 24-70mm Nikon lens and studio lights. The only other piece of equipment to note is a very large Perspex mirror! It's one that was propped up against a wall in the studio. Well, once seen, you can't not use it, can you?

Inspiration

I'm a fan of moody art nude. The inspiration for this came from other images I've done and images I've seen from other photographers. The pose I've seen in other images and Tanya being really bendy was the perfect model for doing this. It's fair to say that Tanya's enthusiasm for the final image is one of the reason that this works.

Editing

Clearly I converted this to mono. I always shoot in RAW so this had to be done in post process. In addition to the mono conversion, I tidied up the background a touch, removed studio equipment that crept into the corners and any blemishes on the mirror. I also altered contrast dodged or burned to suit my taste in contrasty images.

In my camera bag

What I have in my bag depends where I'm shooting. Camera, a couple of lenses, flash, remote etc. In the studio I keep it simple,

Feedback

I'm not the first to do this sort of thing. So do what I did, look around at other images, see what you like and see if you can put your own stamp on it. Practice makes perfect so take a lot of images and if you've never been in the studio before or worked with models, don't penny pinch. A good model will not be free but they are worth every penny and can teach a novice photographer a lot.

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Tanya

A last one from my Tanya shoot.

Behind The Lens

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