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Published: 2004-06-25 07:24:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 4129; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 887
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Model: MirandaI shot this earlier this afternoon. It was for a work assignment... our client needed photos taken for the website we're designing for them. Needless to say, it was hell of a lot of fun!
In preparation, I went and aquired (bought) an Alien bees B400 strobe monolight off a local friend. I was trying to achieve a "Guess Ad" kinda look and feel with this final result of it being b+w... Her attire was more of a "hip-hop" fashion.. mainly due to the fact that our clients are a hip-hop clothing store located here in Vancouver (abbotsford to be exact, ~ 45mins out of Vancouver).
Enjoy...
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maybe this beats Guess ads anytime! this is one well-thought piece. great focus and superb bnw.
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WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW... great pic and a gorgeous model..
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Hey Harry
Great shot! I love the angle and the pose. All her accessories match well. The tail light and the chain link fence is definately a nice touch!
Battleplan.
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i really like it and the tones are perfect, jus so smooth. i think maybe the models boobs mite be to big for an ad like this. not dat im a horndog or anything, but her boobs cud be a lil distracting and models tend to be more lean and less stacked like dat. sorry if i sound wrong...
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wow this looks great! dunno what to say, the fashon is good, black and white is good
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This shot would look better in color. Too bad about the bar.... you can't really crop it out either. Nice work overall man.
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well.. I "could" crop it out... bah.. too late.. I'm just gonna leave it now... I left it in at the time of readying this, for reasons I forgot, ...
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nice work. but I think the hat and glasses take away from the model more than they add to her -- typically a girl's hair and eyes are her strong points, especially as a model. also, the bar in the top left-hand corner is really distracting. other than those things, it's really good work.
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well.. typically with fashion photography.. the fashion (ie the clothing and accessories) are the focus of the shot... the girl is just the icing... if ya know what I mean... I was thinking of cropping out the bar.. but left it .. I forgot what my personal reasoning behind it was at the time.. but maybe I should've cropped it now that I think about it.
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I understand it's hard to crop it out because of where it is, that's probably why you left it is 'cause it'd wreck the balance of the photo. And I completely understand about the fashion bit, I just think it was a bit overdone. Like hat only, or glasses only. Maybe I'm too far into the trendy stuff that's not so urban, who knows. I just think it was too much on her. Good work none the less man.
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The black and white brings out subtle shades that wouldn't be noticed in color, but the fence dragged my attention away from the model.
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Mixed reaction.
To The Photographer: At first I thought "waaayyy to bright!" I couldn't stop my eyes from drifting to that fence in the background, or up and down her arms, from the huge glare on them. But I think that it's just the background that takes away from this shot. I think something darker, or maybe just the wooden fence without the steel criscrosses would finish this off nicely. You are obviously working with some extremely professional models, who are realizing what you want to see right away. Probably the hardest thing to accomplish in fashion photography.
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thanks for your insightful comment...
1 question... are you using an LCD or CRT screen? ... cuz I have my CRT hooked up to my laptop for dual display.. and I work primarily off my CRT (because it supports more colors). Anyways.. my point... if you're on LCD... then I can understand it looking really bright... because LCD's generally have a lot higher contrast than CRT's do...
Anyways.. the original shot was in color... and it's actually not over exposed in anyway.. it's a nice tone IMO... maybe just that I desaturated the image and increased the lightness of my reds n yellows (this is how I make my b+w shots look convincing). What I would consider way too bright... would be something that's totally white, which the arms aren't... they're a light grey.. (at least on my monitor) .. again, it looks fine on my display.. but hard to cater for everyone's individual settings...
Don't worry.. I didn't take any offense to anything you said... I'm still a beginner by far!
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I am using an LCD, so I understand that. That's probably what I'm seeing.
You increase your reds and yellows? To bring out contrast and shadow, right?
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Something like that... I find just desaturation.. too dull.. and there's no high contrast.. very flat... so I boost the lightness in the reds n yellows.. but not fully... just enough to make it have shape,
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Absolutely sensational tones in this one. I could easily see it as a two-page spread.
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Nice work. My eye is wandering all over the place on this one though. Seems kind of cluttered.
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very professional work!
any chance on seeing this stores website?
damn, she is beautiful....
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dooooooooode...you have CLIENTS!!! lol...anyway.
gotta love her...pose. it's so...i-don't-give-a-bleeping-bleep-what- you-think-cuz-i-noe-i-look-good kinda pose...and those SUNGLASSES!!!! eepz!!! lol...
doode...what kinda car is she sitting on?
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what is she sitting on?? looks like a fancy fancy toilet because of the round thing behind her butt. hahahaha.-__- kinda looks odd cause her body is twisted. oo but i love her tube top.haha. coolness!!~
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not sure about the clothes but everything else looks good...
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Yep looks like a beautiful ad to me.
Great pose light and composition. All seem to be working very well together.
She looks like Britney on this one a bit, and I mean it in a good way
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looks great. i think you achieved the look you were going for.
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ooh it does look like a Guess Ad. I can see that. What? You were out in Abbotsford and didn't try to reach me? *gasp*
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Nice shot, how do you like that B400? I want two of 'em with an octobox, umbrellas, barndoors and some colorgels. You should get some neutral density filters so you can control depth of field.
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Is she wearing a skirt? I'd say she was in which case the only thing I find odd about this picture is that her leg is so shadowed she appears to also be wearing black tights... but if she -is- wearing black tights then I guess there is nothing wrong with it ^-^ but IMHO it would look better if it were more skin toned in that area... really though, all round I really like the pose and the shot... *hollar* w007 w007 ~Neko
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I really love the angle of the shot. Even though it's a skewed angle, she's sitting at a different one to make the picture seem kind of dimensionally right. I do like the city feel that you've given to the picture as well. Awesome job!
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Like I said b4, I really like it Harry!!! You did a really good job. I just love the angles, composition, and the expression on her.. ^_^
I think you will like your strobe, and for sure will go nuts playing with it, right? So lucky, I envy you..... hahaha..
Anyway, keep up the good work..
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