I thought I had better get my Blog up to date before my shoot tomorrow with the lovely Clover who I have had the pleasure of shooting with more times than I can remember over the last few years.
I did a shoot in the studio with Mandy a few days ago, this was the first time Mandy had been in front of a camera as she is not a model, but just wanted some nice images for herself.
At this time of the year I rarely use my studio as I prefer to get out on location, as I will be stuck in the studio enough over the winter months.
Whilst I have a very comprehensive studio set-up with in excess of 5 lights I mostly use only one light with a large octagon softbox and this was the set-up I used for the shots of Mandy. Saying that, for some of the images I did incorporate a hair light. I also mostly use a black paper background as this gives me lots of options in post production.
Mandy although nervous was great fun to work with and really warmed to it, as the shoot progressed.
In post production I used some of the images to experiment with using different backgrounds and incorporating them into the shots by use of blend modes and layer masks. I should say I use Photoshop CS5 for all my editing. Mostly my post production workflow is very simple as in tidying up skin, background, changing image to B&W and then using dodge and burn as required before adding contrast. I do not use the actual dodge and burn tools though, but rather use a method of creating empty layers with a blend mode set to soft light and paint on these with either black or white paint set to a low opacity as I feel this is less destructive and allows me to keep going back to make further adjustments if required.
While I am not a big lover of doing loads of editing on images as I prefer to try and get it right in camera, I do find it fun adding different backgrounds, elements to images afterwards, although sometimes these experiments work and sometimes they don’t I will let you all be the judge.
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