Type what you’re looking for and press Enter.

Photography Update

June 1st, 2008
9 Comments

It was about time I did another photography update on my blog. About a week ago I had the opportunity to do another shoot with a model. Nothing too fancy, just a simple shoot for her portfolio. It was her first time modeling, and I think she has great potential. The shoot lasted for about 5 hours, including the time for me to set up my stuff on location and pack everything up again at the end. Below you can see a picture showing the setup that I used for all the images:

Two large softboxes, a hairlight, large sheets of white paper held together with duct tape, and a piece of black cloth. The shoot was done at Leaders Group Conference room, which became my studio for those 5 hours. An excellent location for a wide variety of reasons, very pleasant to work at. It’s also where I did a previous photoshoot. You can clearly see wineglasses in the image above, which is an indication that people were enjoying themselves.

Make-up and styling was done by Euvie Karijoredjo. I had previously worked with her on another photoshoot. She did a very nice job again, and in particular created some really juicy looking red lips for some of the images below. As a direct result, it wasn’t very easy for me to look at the model while operating my camera at the same time. But things worked out in the end. Below are a few pictures of Euvie working on the model. All these pictures were taken using the Canon EF 50mm f1.2L lens, which is one of my favourite lenses to use, shot using available light.

I just love the results I can get with the 50mm f1.2L. For the rest of the pictures I used the Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L lens on an EOS 40D body. We started out with a business woman type of look, with very light natural looking make-up:

Then the make-up got a little heavier for our next look:

And then we had the next look, which speaks for itself. The lips were very well done, I’m just disappointed I didn’t think of getting closeups of them at the time (apparently something was interfering with my mind). Perhaps next time. And finally, some improvisations in the end:

I’m going to sound like a broken record now, but yes, I learned a lot again. And I’m quite sure I’ll suck a little less next time. Etc. etc. The model was great, though a bit shy at times, but since it was her first time, I guess it’s normal. Looking forward to my next shoot…

Meta

This entry was published on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 at 4:51 pm by Karel Donk and is filed under Art Personal Photography. You can use the permanent link to bookmark and/or share it.

Comments

There are 9 responses. Follow any responses to this post through its comments RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

The Eye of Providence

Subscribe to blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Note that this subscription is different from my newsletter.