Extension of Noe
Noe was very willing to climb, crawl, and get down to some nitty gritty work for getting the shot. This series of dead trees along the shore made for a great playground, exploring poses and positioning. I like things like this because it sort of dictates the moment. You can only really stand on objects like this, in a way that it allows. Makes you move in certain ways to setup your balance, and your positioning lends itself to becoming a certain character.
When Noe got balanced on the branch/roots I asked her to start moving as if she was stretching, mirroring the extension of the tree's reach. The sunset was present, and there was even a beautiful sailboat in the background upon the horizon. I'm not much for just doing traditional sunset portraits, not that I won't, but I get bored easily of looking at shots like that. As I dove into exploring this image further, it felt like the post-work needed to match the mood I felt while shooting it. A little funky, a little avant garde, was definitely how it felt. Between her stretchy lycra leotard and the dead lightning formed trees, I knew I wanted to make this more graphical than traditional.
Post processing was done in photoshop which is really a mix of Exclusion and Selective Color tone blending. Then simply replicating that toning with a hard-geometric mask to make this poster like design treatment in the negative space of the piece. It interested me, and it helped create a unique flow to the grid in my eye.
The image was shot with a single flash, SB800 triggered wirelessly with my Nikon SU800 commander. The flash was at 45° right of the subject, about 25' back set to full power and opened wide. I dialed down exposure to allow the detail in the clouds and sun to show in the image and then balanced it all by varying my ISO.
I always love the look of images like this, they feel like they are one step beyond photography, but also not full blown graphic design. It's something that sort of lives in the middle-ground. There are some others from this tree that we experimented with that feel like they should be more traditional, perhaps some black and white contrasting the outfit against the whiteness of the tree. We'll see how I feel when I start working on those, I more or less let the image dictate to me it's final design when I went into a shoot with no concept to start with. So this is all reactionary.
@lifebypixels
Extension of Noe
Noe was very willing to climb, crawl, and get down to some nitty gritty work for getting the shot. This series of dead trees along the shore made for a great playground, exploring poses and positioning. I like things like this because it sort of dictates the moment. You can only really stand on objects like this, in a way that it allows. Makes you move in certain ways to setup your balance, and your positioning lends itself to becoming a certain character.
When Noe got balanced on the branch/roots I asked her to start moving as if she was stretching, mirroring the extension of the tree's reach. The sunset was present, and there was even a beautiful sailboat in the background upon the horizon. I'm not much for just doing traditional sunset portraits, not that I won't, but I get bored easily of looking at shots like that. As I dove into exploring this image further, it felt like the post-work needed to match the mood I felt while shooting it. A little funky, a little avant garde, was definitely how it felt. Between her stretchy lycra leotard and the dead lightning formed trees, I knew I wanted to make this more graphical than traditional.
Post processing was done in photoshop which is really a mix of Exclusion and Selective Color tone blending. Then simply replicating that toning with a hard-geometric mask to make this poster like design treatment in the negative space of the piece. It interested me, and it helped create a unique flow to the grid in my eye.
The image was shot with a single flash, SB800 triggered wirelessly with my Nikon SU800 commander. The flash was at 45° right of the subject, about 25' back set to full power and opened wide. I dialed down exposure to allow the detail in the clouds and sun to show in the image and then balanced it all by varying my ISO.
I always love the look of images like this, they feel like they are one step beyond photography, but also not full blown graphic design. It's something that sort of lives in the middle-ground. There are some others from this tree that we experimented with that feel like they should be more traditional, perhaps some black and white contrasting the outfit against the whiteness of the tree. We'll see how I feel when I start working on those, I more or less let the image dictate to me it's final design when I went into a shoot with no concept to start with. So this is all reactionary.
@lifebypixels