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Day 132 of 365 "Mr. Driftwood"
Day 132 of 365
"Mr. Driftwood"
My friendly neighbor recently lent me a driftwood jewelry display......thing. My first thought was to begin designing jewelry.....but that seemed too time-consuming. My second thought was to use it in place of a human head. Here we are!! Getting the light to match was the easy part. All I had to do was to hold up the wood in the same spot as the "model," and the light would match. The more difficult issue was the fact that I have both a neck AND a head. How to create a headless collar? So, I inflated a balloon, stuck it inside the shirt and jacket, and held it up to the light. In post, I simply replaced the headless collar for the one with the head. Finally, I dropped in the branch, created a collar shadow, and Bob's yer Uncle! Oh, the lighting! There is a large diffused umbrella at camera-left, and the suit is just inside the rear edge. There is also a gridded striplight at camera-right, used to fill in the shadows on the lower half of the body. Thanks for going out on a limb and checking this out!!
#driftwood #headlessman #nicesuit #portrait #man #canon5dmarkIII #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #stripbank #striplight #umbrella #decapitation
Day 132 of 365 "Mr. Driftwood"
Day 132 of 365
"Mr. Driftwood"
My friendly neighbor recently lent me a driftwood jewelry display......thing. My first thought was to begin designing jewelry.....but that seemed too time-consuming. My second thought was to use it in place of a human head. Here we are!! Getting the light to match was the easy part. All I had to do was to hold up the wood in the same spot as the "model," and the light would match. The more difficult issue was the fact that I have both a neck AND a head. How to create a headless collar? So, I inflated a balloon, stuck it inside the shirt and jacket, and held it up to the light. In post, I simply replaced the headless collar for the one with the head. Finally, I dropped in the branch, created a collar shadow, and Bob's yer Uncle! Oh, the lighting! There is a large diffused umbrella at camera-left, and the suit is just inside the rear edge. There is also a gridded striplight at camera-right, used to fill in the shadows on the lower half of the body. Thanks for going out on a limb and checking this out!!
#driftwood #headlessman #nicesuit #portrait #man #canon5dmarkIII #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #stripbank #striplight #umbrella #decapitation