I intended to post this photo on
Friday, but, I must not be able to read a calendar so you are getting it today.
I took photos of Jordon before I
took those of Emili. When I was
taking Jordon’s photos, I keep looking at this location of a bicycle rack with no bikes in it (first photo) and saying to myself
that there was a photo here, but, even though I tried a few things with Jordon,
nothing panned out.
This photo came about because Emili
mentioned that she could do the splits.
Half joking, I suggested that she do it on the bike rack. I do believe that she thought “this guy
has a few screws loose.” She is
right, of course, but this "crazy talk" gave me the idea to have her lay on the
rack. I did it first to make sure
that it was not too uncomfortable, and, it was not.
In this photo, I intentionally
blew-out (over exposed the light portions so that there was no details left in
the highlights) the background on the left. I did this because I wanted the photo to have a light feeling
to it and I did not have sufficient dynamic range to capture both the left side
and the right side of the background. I wanted to only get her face in focus so I selected an aperture of f/4.
I was laying flat on the ground and
shooting her at a slight upward angle.
I positioned my light so that it came from the left and was sufficient just
to open-up the shadows on the right side of her face.
Overall, I was please with the
photo, but as I look at it, I wished that I done one thing. Can you guess what that one thing is?
Enjoy.
Camera settings: Nikon D3, Nikon 85mm f/1.4 at ISO 200, f/4 and with
shutter speeds 1/60th of second with an Elinchrom Ranger Quadra
flash with a 17” beauty dish attached.
Post Processing:
Lightroom 4—set white point, added
clarity and vibrance, used adjustment brush to add details to eyes and hair and
soften skin.
Place her hands differently or do something with her feet (like have her take her shoes off).
ReplyDeleteI have no idea as to what you would change. I do like the photo and admire how you saw that there was a photo to be had.
ReplyDeleteDebbie