Today was much like many other days: Another day shooting another pretty girl. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to make it sound hum-drum. I love my job!
Nothing particularly unusual took place, leastwise from a photographic perspective. The model showed up on time although, for Taylor, getting here meant a flight from Phoenix and then a car-ride from Burbank Airport.
Taylor, today's pretty girl, is easy to spot in the pic above. She's the pretty one with the lights all around her. Today's Pretty Girl Shooter assistant, Dave, can also be seen crouched down and holding the fan. Assisting on shoots isn't Dave's main job. He's also a musician, a drummer, and if you ask Dave just about anything--in fact, you don't have to actually ask--he'll somehow manage to work tales of that time he and his band were on tour with Journey into the answer. I know the stories so well I feel like I was there... with Dave... on journies with Journey.
Taylor was a lot of fun. She had never been in front of studio lights and a glam-cam before. Her experience, according to this sexy girl, consisted of "Some internet pictures that were taken by my husband in the backyard."
Once we started shooting, she certainly didn't act like a newbie. She worked the camera like a pro. Gotta love models like that, new or not!
Here's a shot of Taylor from today's shoot. We shot for hours and I captured hundreds of images. I haven't really gone through them yet but this one caught my eye. Later on, some graphic designer will be messing with my pics but here's what Taylor looks like straight out of the camera with just a few, typical, post-production adjustments, minor alterations, and probably still in need of some color de-saturation-- She looks a bit too on fire with the Bastard Amber gel working on her. Regardless, she's easy enough on the eyes, no?
2 comments:
silly technical question....wondering if your color metering your other lights. I would think that if you have a "warming" gel on your main light that the other lights (kicker) would appear "cool" but they appear balanced in these shots. Thanks, Dana
color meters are fairly expensive gadgets. personally, i don't own one.
remember, gels come in varying degrees of intensity, e.g., 1/8 blue, 1/4 blue, 1/2 blue, full blue. same for warming gels and, in fact, many gels. as an example, you could use a gel of slight intensity on the mainlight and a same (color) or similar (color) of greater intensity on the kickers.
another example: i sometimes use bastard amber for a slightly warming effect on the main light and CTO (Color Temperature Orange) for a more intense warming on the kickers.
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