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Noir

25 Monday Apr 2016

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This one is from Melanie, using a harsh spotlight. It reminds of the old movie shots from yesteryear’s blockbusters a bit. 🙂 I added a bit of scratching with Nik FX (which is free these days).

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Chanelle

25 Monday Apr 2016

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Here is one more from Chanelle a while ago.

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Xenia

09 Saturday Apr 2016

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This photo was made about a year ago in Xenia’s home. It’s quite messy but that’s exactly what I liked for this B&W picture.

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Double Exposure

19 Saturday Mar 2016

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I recently tried a bit of the double-exposure effect. This works quite effectively when using two silhouette type images. I wanted to start out with this photo though:

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That took a bit of photoshopping to invert. Then I took a smartphone shot I took while running of a tree near my home and put that on top. The basic idea is to have a regular background image (the head in this case) and overlay the other silhouette image above that and change the layer blending mode to ‘Screen’.

In practice, I used quite a bit of masking to get the effect constrained to the areas I wanted to. This is what I ended up with:

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Thanks to Chanelle for posing in the original image!

Eleonora

05 Saturday Mar 2016

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I shot this image two days ago from the beautiful Eleonora.

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Chained

27 Saturday Feb 2016

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This one’s a bit different, perhaps a bit risque with the chain. The theme for this shoot was chaos, and the chain and wild hair seemed a good combination. A spot intensifies the atmosphere. Thanks to Liesje for having the guts to have this image taken.

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Jacket

27 Saturday Feb 2016

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This one from Kelly was originally a lot harsher in contrast. I took 3 different variations in Lightroom, exporting each to Photoshop and making a mix of the three for the jacket, Kelly’s head and her chest. This way the light balance was a lot softer, and I liked that look better in this case, instead of having a really high-contrast look (do note that it still has a lot of contrast).

The wind machine gave some life to her hair, the slanted look also adds some dynamics.

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Deirdre

27 Saturday Feb 2016

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One more from Deirdre, in a beautiful pose.

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Lying down

27 Saturday Feb 2016

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This is Deirdre, lying on what appears to be a wooden floor perhaps, but in reality this was one of Savage’s Floor Drops, named ‘Worn Planks Floor’. This carpet-like printed floor looks a little fake in real life, but in pictures it’s quite good. The only downside might be that you’d miss a bit of directional specular lighting at the edges, but if you have no idea what I’m talking about, then good! 😉

This was also the first time that I took out a ladder and climbed up high to get that high vantage point. It does help, although it looks a bit unsafe perhaps from the model’s side. The higher point also helped to prevent me using a lower focal length, since higher focal lengths like 85 or more are more pleasing to the eye.

Things went ok, no limbs were broken and this image is the result.

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Kelly

27 Saturday Feb 2016

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Here’s another one from Kelly from a short while back, sitting on an ancient shaky step stool. A single light was used, as you can see from the shadow.

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