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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Miho

Miho is definitely one of my all time favorite models that I’ve ever had the privilege to work with. She was around for my last shoot  with International Princess Project and I asked her if she would like to stick around and do another shoot after. Being the awesome person that she is, and the kind of model with the drive she has, she happily said “yes”, even though she had to study for her aerospace engineering test in the next few days :p


A "sort of outtake" that we loved


I literally had told her to “bring everything” in terms of clothing as this was really a “test” shoot.   (A test shoot is one that is for the benefit of the model and/or the photographer’s portfolio, but not specifically intended to be used for commercial purposes.) We didn’t have a designer or stylist with us, so we had to make due ourselves. Both she and I picked out her outfits  So it was really a team-effort from the start.

Sometimes fancy and complicated light setups can be a blast. I have 4 Profoto D1s at my disposal and sometimes bust them all out (which is the case for an upcoming post!). Today I decided to keep things very simple. All of the setups use only one light!

Tech details
As I mentioned in my last post I have been in a kind of “overexpose by 1 stop” mode at the moment, so I did the same thing here. For the black and white photo I pushed the exposure a tad bit more in post. I ended up using each of these: Profoto 65 deg beauty dish, 25 deg grid on the beauty dish, Profoto zoom reflector with a 5 deg grid, and Profoto zoom reflector with a 20 deg grid. I’ll point out which were with on the final photos. 

Also, I went with a constant light setup in a few of the looks to be able to shoot a f/2 (on the primes)- f/2.8(on the zoom lens). I love shooting wide open when its possible and its a lot "easier" or "forgiving" on the model's skin than the razor sharp detail you get at f/8.

Results
25 Deg Grided Beauty Dish
Constant Light

25 Deg Grided Beauty Dish
Constant Light
20 Deg Grid
Constant Light
25 Deg Grided Beauty Dish
Strobe
Beauty Dish
Strobe


Miho is an excellent model with fantastic movement, providing me with  a constant supply of new poses, a great attitude, and great energy.  Every shoot we do together is a winner, and  this one was no exception. :)

Meho and I

 Another post coming in a day or two about another new passion of mine!

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