Final Canvas
experiementation helps.
While taking photo of my studio portrait, it came to my attention that my light set up plan was not 100% correct and practical for the studio brief.
I could not use a hairlight because I would need to cut out my model from the background to place them onto the background and with a hairlight it would have made it extremely difficult.
I also changed light attachments a lot to achieve the right lighting I wanted.
Light attachments I used were: Barndoors, Snoot, Honeycomb, Spillkill and a Beauty Dish.
The beauty dish is the one that worked best for what I was trying to achieve, even more so when a blue gel was placed over it. The beauty dish was not the lighting attachment I had initially planned on using. I got a little stressed when my planned lighting attachment didn’t work out but It felt good to find one that did.
It was a stressful experience but I learned a lot from it.
I decided to see how the image would look if I brought in the film elements - black eyes and dark atmosphere.
These images are just very roughly edited, as they are just to give me an idea of how they would look once completed.
I did some dodging and added the blue filter which would be present in the completed film and for it to link with the background.
For more detail in the eyes - see full res.
This image is my favourite from the shoot. The problem is that the quality is lacking -this was caused by flare from the background lights being too strong. At the time however I did not know that so I didn’t know how to over come it that moment. I went back and reshot it but in my opinion the results were just not the same.
The light direction in the image is exactly what I had wanted to achieve from the start. It take a while to get there but was I had, it felt great.
On the coloured image a blue reflector was placed over the light attactment. This made the image cooler in tones and made a subtle and softer look to the lighting.
I changed it to blank and white as I thought the tonal range looked a lot better.
Final background.
Same street as other night images just futher up the road so there was light hitting the foreground.
It didn’t make any sense for my model to have one side of their face lighted when there was no light anywhere apparent in the background image, any light apparent where the model would be placed.
Night time images - what I like about these images is the darkness in them - it draws you attention to the lights within the images. From this I would place the person on the left side on both images.
They both be a little blurry (not particulary sharp)and thats because I used an aperture of 11 and I tried (so dark I couldn’t tell) focus on the ground directly infront me as thats where the model would be places.
- Since I could not desaturate the images very much as they did not have many colours I added a blue hue to the left one as I associate blue with the film, and also blue is in the current film poster.
Not sure which one which I prefere.
These daylight images do not work for what I have in mind. I’ll have to make them night images to achieve what I want. Desaturating these images isn’t enough to make me happy with them.
Test image?
First one is the original image and in my opinon looks horrible so I cropped it, desaturated it and burned/dodged certain areas and made it look like I wanted it too, for it too suit the film.
Black and white version is just to see what it looked like.
