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People's Choice in Handsome Men Photo Challenge
Absolute Masterpiece
Superb Composition
Peer Award
Outstanding Creativity
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Behind The Lens
Location
It was taken at my "home studio", living room turned upside down to allow for the space for this shoot.Time
It was late in the evening, around 10pm. Natural light that comes through the windows of the space where it was taken often times mingles with studio strobes, which wasn't a desirable effect, so we made the shoot as late as we could.Lighting
Lighting was very simple. A feathered softbox, large size, can't recall the exact dimension on the model's left and a slight white reflection coming from a white reflector, positioned further away on the model's right just to provide a touch of liven up the shadows a little.Equipment
Canon 60D, nifty fifty - canon 50mm 1.8 II, no tripod, and a 300w/s flash unit with a large softbox.Inspiration
The whole shoot revolved around the costume and the model's body. Before we went on to create "Birth of Nazgul", where he is tearing this cape aparat, a few fashionesque, subtle sensuality photos first took place. I loved the way the feathered light was playing with his body.Editing
Just a slight flattening of the existing contrast, using the curves pulled the shadows up a bit, highlights were flattened in CameraRAW before opening the image in photoshop and a slight brownish overcast with photo filters was overlayed on top.In my camera bag
A very different story nowadays to a few months ago. I am a proud owner of Nikon D750 and most of my recent imagery is done with 85mm 1.8, fantastic portrait lens, yielded some fantastic results, I love it! A kit of D750, Nikkor 24-120 f4 is following, which I use mostly for landscape. On my previous 60D I once put a tamron 28-75 f2.8 and NEVER took it off, I adore that lens, and am looking forward to obtaining a nikon version as well. I'm still using my canon 430ex II flash, and it is a must have in every situation, one never knows when a fill or even a main light can be required, two packs of batteries, flash connected to my D750 via simple non e-ttl triggering system (I'm a huge fan of manual everything, flash is not an exception, which explains why I never bothered to make a switch to a nikon flash).Feedback
Position your subject further away from the background!! And save yourself the trouble of ironing the imperfections in post processing :) Play with one light, amazing things can be achieved with only one light source, try different angles and distances, take one layer off of the softbox screen, feather the light, have fun!
