Most of the time I try to shoot outdoor with natural light, because I really love it and possibilities are awesome.
This time, I would like to use speedlight and shoot indoor. A simple white wall with a medium umbrella as reflector. A 20 min shooting like I love. Fast and cool.
Shoot with my Nikon D810, 50mm 1.4 @ 2.8, 1/250 + speed light with umbrella as reflector.
CC are welcome !
Photo is correct and nice, can't say anything wrong about it itself. Face is lid nicely, only one thing i can mention is that when you start working with artifical light, you will quickly start to notice that directional light is pretty flattering, try use some grid, different angles and fill light to get some more dimension. Contrast of light helps get define shape of a person you're photoshooting, but also makes photo more recogniseable. Hope it helps somehow.
Cheers,
Thanks Pawel, this is part of a shooting so I have other type of shot with more harsh and directional light. This one was like a high key shot. But thank you for your CC really interesting :)
You imply, or perhaps I just infer, that you are not very experienced at lighting. Given that and the quite basic lighting kit you mention, well done. You have a background that is almost flat lit, not easy with your set-up. You have given her a 3D efffect with light and shade.
It is a bit lacking in contrast, so perhaps a touch of dodge and burn might be used to great effect.
I might not have composed the shot like that, but these are moderately minor and largely person calls, neither wrong nor right, just my preference. I suppose if I was composing it as you have I would have moved my light to my right or had her turn her body so it faced into the frame.
Bottom line she looks beautiful and that's a good thing, well done.
Oh watts a feedback Ian! Thank you. Yeah, a lot of people tells me about the lack of contrast, that's a personal choice and style, while I can totally understand. Maybe next time, I will take more time on dodge and burn and probably don't crush black to much. The way I saw this shot was something "hike key" style, so not too much contrast.
I also think it's a very well done photo. The only minor thing that kinda bugs me is her stray hair on her right. I would try to clone out some of it. Again, very minor. :)
Thx Tom, you are right, I need to take more time to retouch all these details to give the best.
Lovely photo and well lit. Only thing I'm not a huge fan of is the faded vsco look.
The first treatment is better as there's more detail in the nose.
Top work!
Thank you Wayne! Yeah it's par of my style, but I totally understand that the faded look is too much. I wanted something more high key, so that's why I crushed blacks. I will try something less faded next time.
P.S.: the two shots are the same, it's a bug during posting, don't know why there are two pictures...
If you want something high key, whites have to be white not light 30% grey and crush black is making the dark areas become black.
I just viewed the images individually and they're the same, yet when it's placed one after the other it looks like different images. Some sorta weird optical illusion!
But where are her pores?!?!?!?!!?!?
They are here! I think highlights on his face kill a part of her pores but if you watch it again you will notice that they exists. I really don't like to retouch the skin as we commonly see here, I can understand that client need this for beauty shots, but that's not my style, so I really think that's on this pics it's the over exposition that give this impression.