Photography Update
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…
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June 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 am
very nice
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 am
Great location for the shoot indeed, beautiful model as always, excellent make-up by Euvie (nice seeing her at work too
, and as always sublime photography Karel, I guess the model is very very happy with the results
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:10 am
Karel, Very nice pics. Thanks for the update….
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 am
Karel,
Very impressive work. I love the way you’ve played with the softboxes. Lighting is very soft and has a touching feel to it.
To me you’ve scored a perfect 10 with this shoot.
Euvy has done an excellent job with the make-up. I guess it was a team-up of artists on that day.
Thanks for the update and keep on shooting these stunning shots!
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
thanks all.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
Nice, I love the last 3 pics, the rest also( except pic no 5) but the last 3 are just stunning
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
heeeee
this is very nice work.
Good quality photos. not to sexy and not to boring just right.
spicy and still very artistic
June 6th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Wie zijn die danes?
Gerold
June 6th, 2008 at 9:57 am
He Karel,
Whazz up man? Thanx for the update.
Like the pictures. I can’t tell you much about lightning or anything
similar, due lack of knowledge & experience:sad:
I think you did a outstanding job.
Keep it real…:cool: