Falling

Alex P

After deciding that a (heavy) 40" C-Stand was of course the best stand to take for a long trek to my location (didn't have to worry about my light falling over at least), I came away with something I was quite happy with.


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Hackbone

Very, very lovely.

FlyNavy

Awesome!!!!

M38A1

I'm intrigued by these kinds of shots....

Did you shoot a pullback or one of the support structure?

matchbox photography

gorgeous...!

Qarik

very strong image.

jonh68

Great image. I like the splashes of color and the flow of the fabrics.

D3Sshooter

Le moment decisive, well done and the red works well

michaelglenn

Beautifully executed. I love how well you captured the actual motion of falling on this subject. Congrats on the awesome image

Jabfinger

The image is fantastic.

Alex P

Hi guys thanks for the compliments on the image, I've attached a BTS shot (I think I was using it to see how everything was lining up so I would have shot it a wider if I had been thinking, sorry)

But to give you a brief run through,

My model was lying on two Ikea stools (that kept sinking into the ground until we made some feet for them out of rocks). We had to make sure to shoot a shot without both the stools and the model in the frame, that can just be layered over, masked out and brushed back in. Which is quite simple, the difficulty came with wanting the dress and red chiffon to float too, and her hair.

So I was shooting using a remote trigger so that I could grab the dress, chiffon and hair and throw them in the air just before triggering the shutter, which had to be done multiple times for each thing that needed to float to make sure everything was floating the way I wanted it to (serious isometric ab workout for the model).

Lighting wise, ambient was dialed down by about 2-3 stops (it was shifting during the shoot grrr), but I guess the final shot (with no model or stools) which I used for most of the background was about 3 stops down. And the Model was lit with one 120cm Octabox with a Jinbei Discovery 1200 II (I think at lowest power). A speedlight probably would have done it, but I needed fast re-cycling.

And of course, the camera was locked down on a solid tripod the whole shoot!

BTS Shot by a.r.d.pullin, on Flickr

kdog

Impressive work and kudos for the pullback.