My first time at a studio

marikris

Houston Skyline Studio did an open house practice shoot yesterday afternoon, and they had four different models come in. There were 20+ photographers and only 2 sets were used, so it was crowded and you had to be determined to get the strobe trigger(s).

Feedback always appreciated.

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2. (She was also the MUA)


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5. (My friend said, "Come on, take my picture." So I did. I actually met him when he bought my xti on Amazon lol.)

Qarik

good stuff! I like that photographer shot the best lol

heatherfeather

These are super! How much control did you have over light placement and strength?

marikris

heatherfeather wrote:

These are super! How much control did you have over light placement and strength?

Thanks! The lights were basically set up as-is, though you could maybe move them a little. But hardly anybody did that. There were just too many photogs to be able to do all that stuff. Of course, if you go to their learning workshop ($200) or their practice session ($70), you'd have way more control and less crowding.

The models were great about taking directions though, so that's one way to pseudo-compensate on having the light in the direction you want (ehehe). The textured bg had one strip softbox overhead pointing down and the white bg had a big softbox on camera right and a small softbox camera left.

marikris

Qarik wrote:

good stuff! I like that photographer shot the best lol

Haha thank you! I think he was *quite* ecstatic at how his picture came out and is pretty proud to call himself a model

Rhinotherunt

I really like the first!

marikris

Rhinotherunt wrote:

I really like the first!

Thanks! Left to my own devices, photographing the face is all I do it seems! I just love faces

Hackbone

Good stuff. Love 2 &5 the best. No. 1 is nice but I don't like the hand and a little more light in the dark eye.

marikris

Hackbone wrote:

Good stuff. Love 2 &5 the best. No. 1 is nice but I don't like the hand and a little more light in the dark eye.

Thanks, Hackbone! Appreciate the feedback.

I wonder, though, how much better or easier it would have been had I *not* left my polarizer on. I was looking for it the other day and found it on the lens omg. Here's for everyone in the studio knowing I'm a newb

Hopefully the lens hood camouflaged it

angevin1

marikris wrote:

Thanks, Hackbone! Appreciate the feedback.

I wonder, though, how much better or easier it would have been had I *not* left my polarizer on. I was looking for it the other day and found it on the lens omg. Here's for everyone in the studio knowing I'm a newb

Hopefully the lens hood camouflaged it

Don't cha hate it when that happens!:D

Nice set, looks like you did good, considering what you were up against!

marikris

angevin1 wrote:

looks like you did good, considering what you were up against!

Thank you, I appreciate that!

Now the next challenge is with pp. I find that if I don't process them all at once, the flavors tend to change depending on how I feel that day. I guess today is a moody one.



This was one of the photos I sniped using the 135L, ISO 3200. I probably should have opened up to the full f/2, but live and learn I suppose.

kidzmom

These are amazing!
Wow, these are just stellar! They look like they are straight out of a Parisian fashion magazine. Or a Dior advertisement! Great work!

angevin1 wrote:

Don't cha hate it when that happens!:D

Nice set, looks like you did good, considering what you were up against!

marikris

kidzmom wrote:

Wow, these are just stellar!

High praise, indeed. Thank you *very* much

Kinkajou

I like #2 and #3 the best... #3 looks like it is a touch too light though.

I'm definitely with you on the changing flavors when processing... I haven't decided whether that's a good thing or a bad thing yet.

I also did a little workshop with strobe lighting last night... we'll see how C&C goes down when I post a few. We were able to move the lights... well, light... around when the instructor wasn't with our little group, but we had no idea what we wanted to do and we spent some time expirementing

Anyway, congrats on those shots! Learning to use strobes is really intimidating for me, but it looks like you've got some great stuff from that workshop!

marikris

Kinkajou wrote:

I like #2 and #3 the best... #3 looks like it is a touch too light though.

Thank you, Kinkajou! For a minute, I thought you meant #4, coz I thought it was light, but I will probably need to calibrate my monitor because #3 doesn't look light to me atm. But i remember dodging her head, so it probably is noticeably lighter and so I *really* need to calibrate my monitor, and thank you for bringing that to my attention.

On a side note, I had processed another shot on a different day, so #3 ended up looking too tame in comparison. I ended up redoing it so it looked similar to the other shot.

ivar

Very nicely done!! i was so overwhelmed the first time I was in a studio, I still haven't recovered

That very last one you posted... the woman in the skirt looks like a giant, a bit out of proportion I think.

marikris

ivar wrote:

That very last one you posted... the woman in the skirt looks like a giant, a bit out of proportion I think.

You know, it's because Virginia (on camera right) is super petite lol. They're both very well proportioned for their body type, but Ellen is a foot taller and just very curvy. Virginia is like 5 ft, 32-25-33 I think? Real Tiny and I agree that the difference is quite jarring (for lack of a better word).