Over the weekend....follow up
Well, I just finished scanning the weekend shoots I mentioned below. Some ring rust issues but nothing grossly out of line; I still know how to focus and all that. Some of the shots were shot in direct sunlight with the model back-lit. Normally I nail the exposures on these kind of shots, this time I did not compensate for the light and consequently the shots are to my eye underexposed 1/4th a stop. Mind you nothing most would even notice but I did. Just a ring rust issue nothing to be freaking out over.
I got quite a few stunners that I am looking to play up. Noticed that harsher sunlight does exactly what I have always avoided dealing with on my shoots; create annoying hot-spots. Thankfully, I knew this and was able to play the hot-spots up as part of the composition. A few times the sun was an ass however and managed to just rimlight an area right on the edge of the negative. Since I do not crop my negatives I will have to burn a few negatives along the edge down.
Major pluses- even ring rusty I am much more consistent than I was any previous year, I can work on my feet while keeping that consistency, and I worked with two very charming ladies. Yep, Kev's a lucky guy.
Tomorrow I have a shoot with possibly two models; one of the ladies is doing hair and make-up and my model as well but not sure yet. Gonna get a good nap in preparation for that shoot and go out tonight and buy those things construction workers wear on their knees when they have to work on the ground. I plan to do a lot of moving around and squatting for this shoot.
By the way, ever wonder what happened to the models in Michigan that said they wanted to shoot in my live journal but have not gotten in touch with me? I am thinking an earthquake got them all. (wink) Gonna be a good year.
-Kevin the verbose
I got quite a few stunners that I am looking to play up. Noticed that harsher sunlight does exactly what I have always avoided dealing with on my shoots; create annoying hot-spots. Thankfully, I knew this and was able to play the hot-spots up as part of the composition. A few times the sun was an ass however and managed to just rimlight an area right on the edge of the negative. Since I do not crop my negatives I will have to burn a few negatives along the edge down.
Major pluses- even ring rusty I am much more consistent than I was any previous year, I can work on my feet while keeping that consistency, and I worked with two very charming ladies. Yep, Kev's a lucky guy.
Tomorrow I have a shoot with possibly two models; one of the ladies is doing hair and make-up and my model as well but not sure yet. Gonna get a good nap in preparation for that shoot and go out tonight and buy those things construction workers wear on their knees when they have to work on the ground. I plan to do a lot of moving around and squatting for this shoot.
By the way, ever wonder what happened to the models in Michigan that said they wanted to shoot in my live journal but have not gotten in touch with me? I am thinking an earthquake got them all. (wink) Gonna be a good year.
-Kevin the verbose