Monday 25 February 2008

kirsteen portrait


kirsteen shoot-38-Edit
Originally uploaded by harvey30887
Location : basement of the models house, shown below.

model : Kirsteen Leask
Assistant: Charlote Walsh
Photographer : Christopher Harvey

Trying to perfect my portrait skills and adding more dramtic feactures.
The hardest thing with this shoot was the location it was damp, rotting away and had only one power supply.
I had two lights to work with and lots of white mount board. The previous day we had a photographer come into college and show us how to work with the lights and using reflectors, he generated a well lit images, from this i was really inspired to do the same and i asked Charlotte Walsh to be my assistant and help holding the card to reduce deep shadows in some shots.

This shot was created usngi one light to the right hand side of the models face and lit the background with a snoot.

If i did this shoot again id have a spot light just lighting the back of the figures hair so she would stand out slightly from the background.

Overall im really pleased with the result, the blended eye shadow looks good and the figure stands out from the dingy background making here the key element in this shot.

key light was set to , F2.4 background light f3
Exposure : 1/125 sec t F/8.0
Focal length : 55 mm
Nikon D70
Lens: 18.0 - 55,0 mm

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