Eric's a cool kid - he's been at Peabody as an operatic baritone, but wants to go on in Music Theater or stage management (hence the more casual "fun guy" look as well as the "intense performer". Really fun shoot. Also, I finally got to try out a location I've wanted to use for AGES - there's an empty building just up the street from my house that has a metal fire escape. You can't go on the steps - the actual staircase is decrepit, clearly unsafe and, appropriately, fenced off - but you can shoot under and around it, and from the right angles it makes a perfect "faux urban" location in the middle of my very green and suburban neighbourhood. Super useful for my short session when I don't really want to go on location lol
Yup, Alex - with as many shoots as are coming in this summer, I really felt like I needed to up the professional ante a little, if only to keep things consistent. After months trying to design a logo myself, I realised they were all incredibly amateur, and decided to use the talented and delightful Zack Baldwin to design one for me (one of my better decisions - he's AWESOME). Still tinkering with how to use it (I now find myself wanting to redesign the blog to showcase the logo lol), but very pleased, particularly with this watermark version of it.
JPC and Hack - are you guys not seeing the eyes equally sharp in #1? DoF is shallow and focus fades fractionally quicker on the camera left side, but the eyes are both sharp. He wears contacts and I noticed in several shots as I edited that they sit differently on each eye - I wonder if that's what makes it look different at this size and rez?
His eyes seem sharp and everything on that vertical plane seems sharp but in front of and behind seem out to my monitor. I tried to download the image to look at it closer but it won't open and now I can't delete it.
no that's about right. I shot it shallow on purpose, so as long as both eyes are good, it was stylistically as intended (although possibly another half stop down or step back might have been warranted). Thanks!
One thing I noticed is his right eye is slightly smaller than the left, so I would have turned his head slightly to the left, so the right eye was a bit larger, or look equal to the left. This was one of the things that Doug Gordon brought up in his recent workshop on Creative Live, and it has me looking closer at the eyes now. He stated that everyone has one eye larger than the other.
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Eric's a cool kid - he's been at Peabody as an operatic baritone, but wants to go on in Music Theater or stage management (hence the more casual "fun guy" look as well as the "intense performer". Really fun shoot. Also, I finally got to try out a location I've wanted to use for AGES - there's an empty building just up the street from my house that has a metal fire escape. You can't go on the steps - the actual staircase is decrepit, clearly unsafe and, appropriately, fenced off - but you can shoot under and around it, and from the right angles it makes a perfect "faux urban" location in the middle of my very green and suburban neighbourhood. Super useful for my short session when I don't really want to go on location lol
Yup, Alex - with as many shoots as are coming in this summer, I really felt like I needed to up the professional ante a little, if only to keep things consistent. After months trying to design a logo myself, I realised they were all incredibly amateur, and decided to use the talented and delightful Zack Baldwin to design one for me (one of my better decisions - he's AWESOME). Still tinkering with how to use it (I now find myself wanting to redesign the blog to showcase the logo lol), but very pleased, particularly with this watermark version of it.
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His right eye (screen left) does look softer than the other one in number one to me too.
Really like the expression in number two.
Lighting is fantastic in three. Wish his finger tips weren't cut off though.
GaryB
“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!” - Ansel Adams