Danpbphoto wrote:
^^^Liking this even better John!^^^^^
She would have graced my "locker" very nicely!
Dan
Thanks Dan…took lots of shots to get the movement and flow of the peignoir but yet trying to keep to models face still and in focus. Would have been easier with flash, but kept lite so all I brought was the NEO I. Lots of time playing in PS to finish the image and get the look I was after.
John Webb wrote:
Thanks Dan…took lots of shots to get the movement and flow of the peignoir but yet trying to keep to models face still and in focus. Would have been easier with flash, but kept lite so all I brought was the NEO I. Lots of time playing in PS to finish the image and get the look I was after.
Thanks it was fun playing and trying to get the right movement and flow in the peignoir while keeping the model in focus.
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Doc25 wrote:
Excellent set of photos John. Inspirational and very artistic.
Thank you. It really all came together, the models choice of the B&B that she was staying at gave a victorian feel , Then her makeup/styling further suggested a time gone by and the Pegnoir further added to that period feel. This all contributed to a victorian / old holywood feel that I was able to further emphasize via processing.
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Rel75 wrote:
Superb work!! I'm hoping to do photos like this one day. This is photo mastery.
Thank..your very kind. I was fortunate in having a great model who was truely interested in experimenting to get the shots. Then played around quite a bit in post processing to give me the feel I wanted. In this case the model was also a photographer so we also shared a common language.
Find images that you like or paintings from the masters. Determine what it is that you like about the painting and then try to emulate those attributes in your images. Get a model and go out and play, use both light and props in creating the image and then play with post processing to give the image the feel your after. Before digital I would spend literally hours in the darkroom to perfect the print. Was not unusual to go in just after diner and then to look up a realize it was now 2-3 in the morning. I do the same with digital processing but maybe not quite to that extent, but it is very easy to spend 2-3 hours on an image just playing and trying to impart a feeling that the image was driving me towards.
It's funny but when I 1st picked up the camera and for many years after you couldn't pay me to shot a person. Strictly landscape and some occassional motorsport images. Many years later a friend convinced me to come to a figure shoot that he was hosting. It was from that point on that I started to get interested in shooting people, initial more fine art nudes, but found myself gravitaing to faces even though I had a naked model in front of me. Still enjoy landscape and motorsports, but would prefer shooting people especially when I can inject some atmosphere into the final product.
