I am not one for typical portraiture- the family thing where everybody gets dressed up a la the Gap or Polo in khakis and blue brooks brothers shirts and heads off to the sand dune grass at sunset where mom and the kids hold hands and dad gets snarly fed up and NEEDS a big shot or two FAST! I do anyways!Or everybody starts crying and screaming and the sunset portrait ends up being the first thing tossed in the impending divorce.
So, what do I do instead when somebody calls and asks me, "please"?
I call the best hair and make up person and get ahold of a world renowned couturist and tell my clients "OK".
IF!
If they go for the hair, make up and couture right down to the shoes and jewelry. AND the location has to be agreed upon, sometimes requiring permits and all that jazz.
How come?
Cuz it's what we're brought up to believe in as "fine portraiture" and it normally puts me right to sleep.
It is indeed more expensive than your average studio portrait.
But is it worth it?
Every penny.
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ok so how do you do this set up?
I thing first you must Contact Mr. Beaver, who is happy to exchange emails I have found, but up to a point. He and I have internet (e-mail) dialog for some time but he becomes angry, it seemed, to talk about nature of his training. I am still hoping to assist from him upon my upcoming visit to the US. Too few photographers may succeed in breaking so many traditional rules- backlight, grain, artifacts of up-resolving smallish images. But he does seem to!
please contact the up-solving phot snappper directly. Mr. Beavers welcomes your comments and questions.
This shot is easier than you think, I imagine...
2 lights (I use profoto B600R's here), set inside the condo rooms, one left at F5.6, the other right at just under F8. The sekonic light meter reading was made under Citlal's nose and I set her up to be just twanged by le setting soleil.
I happened to use a digital back which makes these flares.
No photoshop.
Mr. Beaver I thank you for sharing but when I read I have questions. Firstly, whilst you say "no photoshop" can you share please what program is it that you used to correct such distractions? And secondly, on your model - there appears some thing on the back, almost like... like a third (in english I think it is) tit! This is stylized or a personal project?
Hi An:
Thank you again for your very good points.
No Photoshop means exactly what it says- NO Photoshop on this photo. Straight out of the camera, into Flexcolor, Hasselblad's proprietary processing engine, and saved as a 920x562x72 pixel jpg at 100 kb, which is how it goes into my web site portfolio. No Photoshop means no photoshop, in Engleesh anyways. I have been shooting film for years and try to make images as close to possible as final images even with digital. Perhaps, if you read through the earlier blogs, you will see where my rep claims I YELL: "I HATE photoshop". The less the better for me, eh?
As for the third tit you tell me you "see", I am wondering if you are a teenage boy hornball and see vaginas in tree crotches, penises in coke bottles, nipples in your frosted flakes and host viagra parties for you and all your male teenage friends? Of course, I still do but have never met anybody else with the same sensibilities, interests or vision. Remember, I only give you a 2 dimensional image- it is up to YOU to come up with the reactions. Thanks for sharing yours. For what IS the purpose of art?
Best regards and, as usual, I shall always welcome your points- good or bad,
Wick
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