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Still with
me? Good! After the "Lean
On Me" series, we take a quick break & change the
setup. We bring in a small side table & slide it under the
backdrop, and we finally delete that troublesome hair light. I also
pull the main light back a bit & re-aim both the main & fill
lights. As a result, more light falls on the backdrop -- you can see
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if my presentation were slicker, I would save the best for last,
but not here. This one is my favorite from this setup and is
one of my two favorites from the whole sitting. This
images was selected as a showcase image on One
Model Place.
(If
you read my FAQs, you'd know that a sitting is considered
successful if both the model & I finish the sitting feeling
respected and feeling that we had a good time; by all accounts,
this was a successful sitting. It's a bonus if we produce a
good image during the sitting. For this sitting, I think we
produced quite a few good images, which makes this sitting rare).
I like asking
models to twist -- I like the tension such unusual poses places on
their muscles. Jessica is just perfect for this -- she's
lean, muscular, and flexible.
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Better
tonality in the scans, huh? I think this is instructive to me.
The difference here is that the main soft box is a bit further away from
the model, and both the main & the fill lights are allowed to brush
the backdrop. I'm liking these images.
At this
point, I have exposed 10 rolls of film (10 exposures per roll). I
have a Jobo film processor that is capable of developing 10 rolls at once,
so for me, a batch is 10 rolls or less; exposing an 11th roll would mean a
second batch of film processing, and I hate to process a short
batch.
So, do
we stop? No -- I remember my digital camera. Since the first
10 rolls went quickly (we had scheduled a 3 hour sitting, and so far we
took less that 2.5 hours), we just switched cameras and continued.
(Looking
at well lit color photographs is interesting, but I still prefer the
B&W. How about you?)
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I've
got to admit (grudgingly) that I like my digital camera. It
took a while for me to find an affordable one capable of firing my
strobes (see my General
FAQ for more information). Yes, this particular camera has
tons of setting & adjustments available, and I am using it set
totally on manual (okay, I'm using the autofocus). I think
these images have nice color balance, and the camera has been
greatly useful in previewing the lighting. |
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| We
are all still energized & not wanting to bring this sitting to an
end. So, we continue... This
sitting concludes in "The Shower" |
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