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These 2 photos are by Romaine Studio of San Francisco. There's a goof article on the Romaines at www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/1_Romaine_Romaine/A/
Portraits of Actor Shia LaBeouf whose film 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints' is part of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah. January 22, 2006. © Henny Garfunkel / Retna Ltd.
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MODELO INVITADO: Guillermo Bassolino
FOTOGRAFÍA: © Javier Vicente artista visual
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The background on this is digital. The original was a high-key, shot against a grey background with two strobes bounced off of umbrella's to blow it out to pure white. The main light was a beauty dish, up and to camera left.
With the white background it's fairly easy to cut out the subject and place it on a different background. The hair is the toughest part. The technique in Photoshop Elements 6.0 used in this one was to place the original image on top of the digital background and then use the background eraser tool around the hair. By sampling the hair color, Photoshop does a pretty good job of protecting the hair and erasing the white to expose the digital background. But it's not perfect and tends to darken or wash out bits of the hair. If I had Photoshop insalled I could use the history brush to bring the hair back almost perfectly. Since I don't, I opted to use the burn tool to bring some of the midtones back. It works "ok".
I only use the background eraser tool around the hair. The rest is easy using the magic wand tool. But in the past I was always left with a slight white halo around the subject and I would have to fiddle with the eraser and the dodge tools to try to elminate that. The big tip I learned is to (once the marching ants are around the subject to be extracted) do, Select, Modify, Expand and set it to two pixels. Then Select, Feather, again two pixels. Then hit delete and wha-la, extraction complete.
Once that's done the subject layer can be resized and moved around to suit taste.
I also did some other things to this photo that I'd have a hard time describing or reproducing. It was just experiement time but I was shooting for a, I don't know, a bit of a "vintage" or "heirloom" quality. As of today, I really like it. But maybe tomorrow or next week, maybe I'll wince a little when I see it. Who knows, that's happened.
Oh, and then there's the frame. I made that in PS Elements. Was shooting for the look of a particular mahogany frame that L like from mpix but fell short. I really don't know how to make digital frames yet. All this is is a bunch of layers with different dimesnions and colors. Just trying to make the portrait a bit more appealing but it's a good exersize in learning PS.
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Going to be posting some images of Reid in between my weekly photo challenge. I loved photographing him and definitely made me push myself as I'm not use to photographing guys all that often. He really does remind me of a young James Dean.
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Erin transforming from a rebel to a sexy cowgirl.
Light info:
Speedotron 400ws pack
1 strobe w/beauty dish as main
1 strobe w/stripbox camera left as fill
1 strobe gridded and gelled pointing at the background
My second tintype session. The two that look wrong, are due to the fixer being too cold, therefore not changing it from negative to positive (still interesting though). Another lesson learned! I'm hoping to get one more session in, before hand-in!
FlashDisc arrived just as I was heading out to a shoot so I had to try it out. I bought 2 but these were all done with a single Yongnuo 560 III into the flash disc on 1/2 in front and slightly above the model. I usually shoot all my portfolio/model agency work with a 22" beauty dish so that's what I had in mind as I tested this out. Bottom line...love it. Easier and cheaper than a beauty dish set up and love the final result.
I had the pleasure of doing a studio shoot recently with Oscar-winning actress Shirley Jones. She was awesome.
AB 800 with umbrella from above; AB 800 on background; 2 AB 400s with strip lights from sides + AB ringflash set very low for fill.
Portrait of Toni Braxton, shot in New York City, July 25 2005.© Ricard / Retna Ltd. Higher Rates Apply . No Skins or Tabloids
Main light: Norman 805 on the left side + 24x36" softbox
Sidelight: 400w tungsten on the right side + yellow gel
Ambient: Canon 580ex at 1/8 power 105mm + green gel hitting a black seamless
ISO 100, f11 1/20sec
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Patricia, 28 February 2017. Canon 580EX II speedlight with a Gary Fong diffuser overhead and Lastolite Tri-Flector just out of shot, below Patricia. The lens was fitted with a Lee soft focus glass filter.
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