Gorgeous image, love the cool tones of the sky and background in contrast to the warm skin tones of the model and her dress. Also like the pose and how the lighting fades.
Thanks for the kind words! I did not gel the flash. I was shooting in daylight balance for my WB with a softbox just out of camera view. I am NOT a color expert, but I believe her body being illuminated by the flash would cause her to be 'warmer' than the environment.
cliphe wrote:
Thanks for the kind words! I did not gel the flash. I was shooting in daylight balance for my WB with a softbox just out of camera view. I am NOT a color expert, but I believe her body being illuminated by the flash would cause her to be 'warmer' than the environment.
That makes sense. When I was a professional commercial photographer, I shot a lot of transparencies including 4x5 architecture work. Transparencies were used for publication and had to be color corrected at capture.
I had a Minolta color temperature meter. I've measured the skylight hitting south facing buildings as high as 9800K! I had to stack filters to correct to 5500K.
I'm thinking you dusk skyline was lit by skylight over 8500K. I'm used to dusk light being warmer, that's why it looked to me that your flash was gelled and you used a lower WB setting.
I really like the effect in this photo. However, if you ever want to balance to the ambient, you could gel your flash with CTB and set your WB Kelvin to ~8500 or so.
dmacmillan wrote:
If you look carefully, you may be able to see a few skyscrapers.
hard to focus with a gorgeous woman staring straight at me..joking aside..this pic works so well because you are drawn to the subject so strongly, lighting, etc, just feels like it grabs your attention the way it should be..just a great capture
nice job and gorgeous model !