Comments on: Behind The Scenes Of A Stylized Tennis Portrait

By: Roy Patton Photography

Roy Patton Photography — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:09:50 +0000

wow, interesting shoot and was given great style, i think ive got a new love for tennis :-)

By: zzzone

zzzone — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:32:19 +0000

Mike looks good like your style. I’ll check the others on Vimeo

By: Donnie Bell Design

Donnie Bell Design — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:03:30 +0000

Very nice looking BTS. I bet the model got tired of serving the ball.

By: dsenf

dsenf — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:04:49 +0000

There’s this olive oil hairspray that some people like to use to make the skin shiny. I forget the name, but it comes in a green can.

By: Mike Tittel

Mike Tittel — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:54:56 +0000

@ Richard – Getting the skin to look that way is the combination of the lighting used and a skilled make-up artist. Paula (my MUA) has a great trick. This will sound crazy but she first applied spray-on sunscreen (the cheap kind you get from Walgreens) and then misted the player with a combination of water/glycerin where we wanted sweat. For the shot used as the title (the one you see before pressing play) we used two 2′x3′ Profoto soft boxes w/ 60 degree grids on them as rim lights with a 22″ soft white beauty dish as the key light. You can see the rough set up at 1:10 in the video. This is a great way to enhance the sheen.

For those interested we have one other BTS video available at http://vimeo.com/miketittel.

More info can also be found on my blog: http://blog.miketittel.com

Thanks for watching.

Mike

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:58:08 +0000

Hard lighting (rather than soft) is very specular thus creating shiny skin and it is also very good for defining edges of the body / muscles especially when placed behind the talent.

By: Richard Grebby

Richard Grebby — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:12:12 +0000

how do they get the skin to shin like it does?