Showing posts with label Photo Shoot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photo Shoot. Show all posts

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Can a Black Girl Look Goth?

This is the first Photoshop Toning Tutorial I'm posting here on creating a cool toned goth-type feel in a portrait of an African-American model. Using some Hue/Saturation adjustment layers plus some standard retouching, dodging, burning, etc. I was able to get the effect I wanted and we were both pleased with the results.

Before I even get to the tutorial let me just say that as a an older white guy there are a million other things I'd prefer to talk about than anything to do with race. Trying to make an African-American model look like a pale white model and publishing this online is not comfortable. Especially since I tend to look at my pictures objectively in terms of light, shadow and colors that create a pleasing picture. People who know me understand, or at least I hope they do, that I'm not objectifying the woman in the photo.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Anastasia Bound

It's been quite a long time since I've been shooting people regularly. Very long since I've done any type of fetish work, at least anything seriously. Lucky for me I ran across Anastasia. She was bored, I was bored. I had some rope and a desire to take some pictures and she was up for it. It felt so good to be shooting like this again.

I need more practice with my knots but I'm pretty happy with the results. These are my two favorite shots from the session.



Most of the shots used a simple lighting setup. Canon speedlight on a stand with a shoot-through umbrella. Occasionally used one or two more speedlights as fill or accent lights. These two were single light shots. Flashes were trigged with the built-in flash on my Canon 70D.

A little bit of editing to adjust tones and contrast, remove a blemish here or there but that's about it.