bluewanders
TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2014
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I only just started actively using the forum, so I'm not eligible to participate in the April Challenge. But since I don't play around with high key very much I nabbed the lady of the house and made her model for me so that I could play along.
Parameters:
I wanted to make sure this was difficult for me so these were taken in a small half bathroom (no shower/bathtub just a toilet and sink in a little closet type space) with white walls. In that space I had enough room for 2 background speedlights sitting on the counter (there was no room to mount them up a little higher on stands) so I could play with the background gradient , a softbox in the doorway camera right, and a round reflector camera left.
Only retouching done was taking care of some acne in photoshop, and general exposure tasks in lightroom. I like uneven skin tones, skin texture etc... it feels more human to me. So in this case I raised the iso up to ~1200 to create a little grain in the image and possibly help make the edges of any blotchy skin a little less defined, the idea was an in-camera gaussian blur of sorts.
1. Ok This Might Be Fun
2. Have you taken enough yet?
3. Did you really need to adjust that light again?
4. Please, God, release me from this madman. (Obviously not high key, this one I turned one of the background flashes off to play with gradient a little more and get moody)
5. That's it, if I start making weird faces I know you'll let me go. (Also this is the weakest photo in the set, being forced to put my background speedlight so low and in such a cramped space made it really easy to create ghoulish shadows like the gaunt looking cheek in the hotspot, which also ends up making her face look wider on the left than the right)
Parameters:
I wanted to make sure this was difficult for me so these were taken in a small half bathroom (no shower/bathtub just a toilet and sink in a little closet type space) with white walls. In that space I had enough room for 2 background speedlights sitting on the counter (there was no room to mount them up a little higher on stands) so I could play with the background gradient , a softbox in the doorway camera right, and a round reflector camera left.
Only retouching done was taking care of some acne in photoshop, and general exposure tasks in lightroom. I like uneven skin tones, skin texture etc... it feels more human to me. So in this case I raised the iso up to ~1200 to create a little grain in the image and possibly help make the edges of any blotchy skin a little less defined, the idea was an in-camera gaussian blur of sorts.
1. Ok This Might Be Fun
2. Have you taken enough yet?
3. Did you really need to adjust that light again?
4. Please, God, release me from this madman. (Obviously not high key, this one I turned one of the background flashes off to play with gradient a little more and get moody)
5. That's it, if I start making weird faces I know you'll let me go. (Also this is the weakest photo in the set, being forced to put my background speedlight so low and in such a cramped space made it really easy to create ghoulish shadows like the gaunt looking cheek in the hotspot, which also ends up making her face look wider on the left than the right)