Mathew Farrell
MF_20110827_0059
Product shot of waders for my Rod & Fly product shoot.
I originally used the bottom half a mannequin for this shot, but the only one I could find had an overly feminine kink to the knee, so I gave up on that and got my wife to pose in them, merging the torso from the mannequin shot with the legs from my model shot. A few colour curves and painting to merge the components convincingly.
My wife didn't seem to mind the insinuation that the mannequin was more feminine than her.
Strobist - shot on white seamless - actually many white sources cobbled together as I didn't have seamless paper on hand. A single raw strobe shielded from the model and camera blew out the background; Single strobe in a shoot-through umbrella high left as key. The hard highlights that look like a raw strobe rear right are reflection from the seamless.
A little post work to remove wires and stuff and merge the layers. I decided to leave shadows around the feet.
BTS shots in the Rod & Fly gallery:
MF_20110827_0059
Product shot of waders for my Rod & Fly product shoot.
I originally used the bottom half a mannequin for this shot, but the only one I could find had an overly feminine kink to the knee, so I gave up on that and got my wife to pose in them, merging the torso from the mannequin shot with the legs from my model shot. A few colour curves and painting to merge the components convincingly.
My wife didn't seem to mind the insinuation that the mannequin was more feminine than her.
Strobist - shot on white seamless - actually many white sources cobbled together as I didn't have seamless paper on hand. A single raw strobe shielded from the model and camera blew out the background; Single strobe in a shoot-through umbrella high left as key. The hard highlights that look like a raw strobe rear right are reflection from the seamless.
A little post work to remove wires and stuff and merge the layers. I decided to leave shadows around the feet.
BTS shots in the Rod & Fly gallery: