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Sunday, January 23, 2005

The Senior shoot I talked about in my last post happened on Friday, so here are the results!

A little background, I've shot most of my portraits outdoors. The ones I've shot indoors have been with just my Alien Bee, which have turned out okay but not great. So I decided to put together 3 strobes and try to fix some of the problems I've had in the past. While not perfect, I think these are much better.

While I wasn't able to duplicate an image/pose I had seen on another board, I think they turned out pretty good. In the end, they have 10 poses presented 4 ways (color & b&w, with soft focus versions of both). She was a bit nervous and didn't really care WHAT we did, but I coaxed her into one clothing change.

Anyway here's the results. :)

The background I made can look really good, but with its blue color it tends to be a bit limited. I brought it with the expectation of not even using it, but when I got there, her shirt was perfect.


Here's a soft-focus image adjusted in Photoshop. Her eyes, nose, & mouth are sharp, everything else is soft.



I did some retouching on every one of the images, mainly to remove the bifocal lines on her glasses.



In this image, I also needed to remove a few stray hairs that were across her face. I also removed the bifocal line.



So that's about it. These were all shot with the Canon 10D with custom white balance, ISO 100, f5.6, using an Alien Bee B800 as main, Achiever 115 as fill, and Vivitar as hairlight.

Greg