Folio Portraits

I was quite pleased with my results in regards to my plans for these portraits, as always there is room for improvement and expanding of ideas.

Shot at f7.1 @ 14sec ISO 100

Multiple Exposure

Here I aimed to work mainly with lighting the silk textures, Mel's features. Wanting to try and achieve a contemporary dance theme, I found this quite a challenge as whenever I attempted my multiple exposures the studio was never fully vacant resulting in not being able to achieve complete darkness and having to work with limited space. This meant a fair bit of post production burning in and adjustments were needed to be made. As far as the multiple positioning goes I also found this a challenge trying to work with both of my models in regards to avoiding overlapping of body parts and having them stay in frame with the limited space they had to work in to produce their moves. There is defiantly room for improvement here and now Ive experienced how to achieve these sorts of exposures, I aim to continue to expand on what I have to learn in this area.

Shot at f.4 @ 125 ISO 100

Head-waist, out of focus background

I went for a simple approach with this portrait. Touching on technique used in the previous semester with tungsten of course in this case I replaced the tungsten with flash as the purpose was to practice with studio flashes. I revisited the Rembrandt lighting technique and felt it suited the effect I was going for. I tried to avoid the flash being so harsh on the face with a large softbox on the flash and having it fire at a setting of 5.0. A reflector was used to soften the harsh shadows but still keeping the "Rembrandt triangle" on the cheek. For the background I used a setting of 6.0 and snooted the flash for a spotlight effect. My plans from the start were to have this as a black and white image as the background I chose (1970s style blanket from home) would contrast nicely and I feel Zach's fair complexion comes up nicely in a black and white image.