"To keep this a simple as possible I wanted to make something inexpensive prop wise to produce, fun, different from anything in my portfolio, yet still retained my style, and very theme oriented. So I came up with "The Forest Princess". Living in Yokohama Japan, just a bit south of Tokyo, I know that I'm in a unique position.
One day after passing through the 390 yen shop (4$ store... yep we have those!) I noticed some dresses that I thought would be awesome for a shoot. I bought them and some other things for the headdress from the 100 yen shop (1$store.. yeah we have those too!) went home and started sketching some concept ideas and thought about what would work with the dress. The dress was pink and frilly like I would expect the princess form Super Mario Brothers would wear so from that I said "Princess!"
The image you see now was a modified version of one of the sketches. The original sketch had her sitting in the grass. But when I saw this location I thought the log was a better option. The grass in the foreground background and along the log just worked. There were a few spots in the background that looked a bit urban (visible pathway / fence) but it was nothing the clone stamp couldn't handle.
As for lenses I used 2 lenses for this shoot, the Nikon 70 - 200mm f 2.8 ED VR 2 lens and the Sigma 150mm f 2.8 EX DG OS APO macro lens. For the lighting I used one Paul C Buff Einstein with the 47' Octabox and diffuser as my key about 3 feet off to the right side of frame roughly 4 feet up and a sliver reflector bouncing some light back on the log for the accent on the left edge of the frame. It was shot around 5:30 so there was still some light tricking through the trees but I got dark quick." -TD Konkara
EXIF:
Nikon D800
Nikon 70-200mm f2.8
112mm
d1/80 sec s
f/2.8
100 ISO
Productions Credits :
Photographer / Retoucher : TD Konkara
Model : Haruka Toda
Photo Assistant : Tyler Hope
MUA : Sabrina Sarran
You did a lovely job on this. Was the wolf added in post or was it part of the shoot?
Hi and thanks for the comment! Much appreciated. I smile every time someone asks me this question but the honest answer is that the wolf was added in post for 2 of the images in the set. I'm just now really starting to get into compositing and hopefully improve more and more to get my work up to that next level! Thanks again jr456 for the question and comment! :D