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Those who participated in the street shooting exercise a few weeks back may remember Jane. She was the lovely lady who was promoting her upcoming theatrical performances.

I managed to get together with Jane today, and shot some very interesting images. I'll be posting more of these as I take some time to process them, but I thought I'd just throw a couple up here for starters. Jane is a remarkably beautiful young lady, with eyes that make photographing her a real joy.

These are in no way typical of what we achieved today - we shot some very different scenarios - and I am really very happy with the outcome.

And yes, i will be doing some post over the next few weeks.







The setup for the whole of the day's effort was just one light through a beauty dish.

Pending WB adjustment, these look good. I quite like #2 and #3 for their composition.

Not sure whether the eyes are in sharp focus in the second though.

I like the intermediate light from the beauty dish. How far was the beauty dish from Jane?

Hi Gary
The images came up a tad yellow on my monitor so I copied #2 and did a curves WB adjust off the white of her eyes. That made a big difference! The amount of fine detail you captured is amazing...the lighting was perfectly set to pick up every pore/eye lash and hair. Lens and camera working together as a perfect tool. Very nice!

Thanx Matt and Suren.

While I like to push my images towards the warm side, these are probably a little too far, so yes, I need to pull them back just a little. Matt, please feel free to post your version, if you wish; I'd love to see it.

The lighting .... the beauty dish is just so well named. Suren, the distance varied between about one to two meters; I was shooting using a QiHe 150Ws strobe, pulled back to between minimum and half power, depending upon how the histogram was looking.

Nice to see you posting some images Gary

Killakoala wrote:Nice to see you posting some images Gary

Love the sharpness and clarity in these.

I agree, these are very crisp and clear images Gary, but too warm!
Perfect exposure and yes, nice to see you posting more images!

Ps - I think the last one would look awesome as a B&W and a LITTLE bit of 'film like' grain

I'm not getting any images on either Firefox or Safari.

Here is a version which has been cooled down a bit. Could someone with a calibrated monitor confirm it's not too cool? I assume you are ok with us 'cooling' down your picture Gary?

I have done a few more adjustments as well.

I found it's hard to add grain as it increases her freklarity.