Realy cool shot Julien, winner already. Not to take away from this wonderful creation, but it does have a Magritte feel to it. Care to share the lighting technique?
Christian
Jan 06, 2008 at 07:48 AM
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cennerfelt wrote:
Realy cool shot Julien, winner already. Not to take away from this wonderful creation, but it does have a Magritte feel to it. Care to share the lighting technique?
Christian
Thank you very much Christian ! My wife thanks you too because she was trying to put a name on the feeling she had and there you got it : Magritte !
I've tried lots of different setups for this one. I finaly lite the scene with what I got at home : two halogene lamps. The most powerful one (500w) was above my head at about 2,50 meters high (in a precarious stability on a ladder !) slightly behind and on the right to achieve something interesting on the coat. The 200w one was right in front of my eyes up and toward the wall.
The camera was on the floor and the hard part once I got the lighting was really getting the right pose and framing as I couldn't use my tripod to get that low nor see trough the wiewfinder, with no remote but only the ten seconds timer ! I took approximatly 30 shots to get something correct that was further finalized in PS.
Julien
Edited by markoner on Jan 06, 2008 at 10:36 PM GMT
markoner wrote:
Thank you very much Christian ! My wife thanks you too because she was trying to put a name on the feeling she had and there you got it : Magritte !
I've tried lots of different setups for this one. I finaly lite the scene with what I got at home : two halogene lamps. The most powerful one (500w) was above my head at about 2,50 meters high (in a precarious stability on a ladder !) slightly behind and on the right to achieve something interesting on the coat. The 200w one was right in front of my eyes up and toward the wall.
The camera was on the floor and the hard part once I got the lighting was really getting the right pose and framing as I couldn't use my tripod to get that low nor see trough the wiewfinder, with no remote but only the ten seconds timer ! I took approximatly 30 shots to get something correct that was further finalized in PS.
Very original concept Julien. I have every empathy with the technique and methodology used because there are several similarities with those used in my own entry this week.
Fabulous image! VERY well done.
Enjoyed hearing your setup, too.
This looks like a stock photo for a business magazine, etc.
Finalist for sure.
~ Carrol
cennerfelt wrote:
Realy cool shot Julien, winner already. Not to take away from this wonderful creation, but it does have a Magritte feel to it. Care to share the lighting technique?
Christian
Referring to Magritte is certainly not detracting from the image...it's great!
It really makes the eyes travel around
Thanks
Peter
