Scott Wilson - Tiny Halo Modern Photography
My friend Scott Wilson is a 21st century fashion photographer whereas my style is definitely mid-20th century. So when he asked me to make a head-and-shoulders portrait of him for the profile page on his website www.tinyhalo.com/about that set up an interesting dialogue between two very different sets of aesthetic preference.
We collaborated well and had much amusement as our natural inclinations were so different on every aspect of the task. The only things we really agreed on were that I would use a DSLR and that we would use a studio. I wanted to use old-fashioned continuous lighting rather than flash and Scott agreed to that. His inclination was to move about and adopt different poses and facial expressions … I agreed to that but had to slow him down and persuaded him to sit because of the lighting constraints. I wanted to keep straightening and smoothing his clothes but he preferred an informal look. He wanted to stand within two feet of the main lamp to maximise the light intensity … I wanted to move him away to reduce the competition with the other lamp. I used apertures of f2.5 and f3.5 whereas he would have gone for f8. Then when it came to editing we agreed on monochrome but he preferred almost burnt out highlights and I was looking for fifty shades of grey. I added a subtle brown duotone but he rejected that for the stark black and white look. All very interesting and we great fun laughing at our different approaches.
So this is the image that Scott was pleased with and has used on the profile page of his website … and he gave me a very nice photo-credit too.
Scott Wilson - Tiny Halo Modern Photography
My friend Scott Wilson is a 21st century fashion photographer whereas my style is definitely mid-20th century. So when he asked me to make a head-and-shoulders portrait of him for the profile page on his website www.tinyhalo.com/about that set up an interesting dialogue between two very different sets of aesthetic preference.
We collaborated well and had much amusement as our natural inclinations were so different on every aspect of the task. The only things we really agreed on were that I would use a DSLR and that we would use a studio. I wanted to use old-fashioned continuous lighting rather than flash and Scott agreed to that. His inclination was to move about and adopt different poses and facial expressions … I agreed to that but had to slow him down and persuaded him to sit because of the lighting constraints. I wanted to keep straightening and smoothing his clothes but he preferred an informal look. He wanted to stand within two feet of the main lamp to maximise the light intensity … I wanted to move him away to reduce the competition with the other lamp. I used apertures of f2.5 and f3.5 whereas he would have gone for f8. Then when it came to editing we agreed on monochrome but he preferred almost burnt out highlights and I was looking for fifty shades of grey. I added a subtle brown duotone but he rejected that for the stark black and white look. All very interesting and we great fun laughing at our different approaches.
So this is the image that Scott was pleased with and has used on the profile page of his website … and he gave me a very nice photo-credit too.