Lenaa during the glamour workshop
Yesterday Lenaa was our model for the glamour workshop.
The glamour workshop is always a special workshop for me, I’m a 95% fashion shooter and teaching a glamour workshop is something else completely. What I hate is the glamour where it all boils down to one thing… yeah I don’t have to explain this further right ? 😀 So I always try to make the glamour shots we do during the workshops a bit more special. And with a model like Lenaa it’s a big joy to do this workshop. Today some of the results from yesterdays workshop.
Gear used :
Sony Alpha 99
Zeiss 85mm 1.4
This was actually the first time I used this combination for a complete workshop tethering into Lightroom 4.2 and must say it worked flawless. The most amusing part was maybe the responses from the students when they looked through the viewfinder… “It’s like being in a terminator movie” well it actually does feel like that with all the info in the display, of course you can also “clean” the display up and only show the focus points and the image, but I love to see what’s going on. And this is something I really like from the EVF in the A99, you can customize it a lot.
The more i see photos of the a99 the more i think its the camera i need to upgrade to, i know im not going to be a fan of the evf but like you its something you just get used to. But feel with the a99 shooting with the ziess glass will be the difference, than shooting with glass from Sigma as those are the lenses i have, for some reason never felt sony make good glass, maybe im wrong. A question on the last photo, how much separation is there btw the model and the background because it looks black like it should be. I have a small studio on cannot do shots far away from the background so i have light spill on the background that i have to take out in post
That background actually is not black it’s a canvas I later lit but I loved this shot more.
Best way to keep a background black is to make sure there is no light hitting it. Use grids or angle the light, it’s not that hard 😉
I kinda figured that was shooting with a 40cm softbox, but with out any grids, so will head back this afternoon and hash it out
Love the second to the last shot. Been playing with natural light wide open to get that soft look, I really like it
Thx
Hi Frank, Where can I find grids for my Elinchrom strip banks 14 X 36 inches?
As always great work!
Thank you!
Hi
Try lighttools they should have them. I use those too.