Erica 18+

codiac2600

One Model, Three fine art styles.

This is my first in a series of three models that are for personal work. This shoot had only an hour and a half shoot time as the model arrived late and I had a scheduled appointment right afterwards. I think we did well for the short shoot time.

High Key:




Low Key:




Full Kick:

christulk

Love the fourth shot. Nice work!

System

Excellent work all around! I liked them all!

Nikolai

Nice series!
I meant to do something like your last couple for a while, but didn't have time yet, but I gotta catch you on this:-)

codiac2600

Thank you everyone!

@Chris: That is by far my most favorite shot and thank you Lightroom II for the one fix it needed

@Magic: Thank you so much!

@Nikolai: The secret to kick shot is that you'll find it very hard to get her completely black in camera without the use of side flags because of all the light that will bounce around so what I do is make sure the subject is at least 2 stops underexposed (there will still be a lot of detail on the subject) and when you process the RAW file shove the blacks to max and if you want black and white you can desat in the RAW convertor for the final fix. It's a repeatable result and you get great tonality in the skin that still shows up which is a bonus.

Nikolai

codiac2600 wrote:

@Nikolai: The secret to kick shot is that you'll find it very hard to get her completely black in camera without the use of side flags because of all the light that will bounce around so what I do is make sure the subject is at least 2 stops underexposed (there will still be a lot of detail on the subject) and when you process the RAW file shove the blacks to max and if you want black and white you can desat in the RAW convertor for the final fix. It's a repeatable result and you get great tonality in the skin that still shows up which is a bonus.

Yeah, I thought that was the case :-) And I do use side flags :-)

schmoo

Hi Chris I'm late to the game but see you've turned external linking off in the original gallery so now your images won't show. Intentional? Just checking.

A shame, too, because they're lovely!

codiac2600

schmoo wrote:

Hi Chris I'm late to the game but see you've turned external linking off in the original gallery so now your images won't show. Intentional? Just checking.

A shame, too, because they're lovely!

Sorry, it's fixed now!

cdub

I like the last one the best. I think you've accomplished something when you can add a sexy and private mystique to silhouettes. Well done.

Agnieszka

Love your stuff, especially the portrait #4, very, very pretty!

BeamCatcher

Hello Sire!
Second of the low key:

Brilliant! I really LOVE it!

If I was to nit pick... perhaps I wold have liked to get rid of some of the blemishes on the chest and neck...

Still a REALLY classic shot with a fab conversion!

Ivar