Something very different for me - Fashion

Here's something completely different for me...and I guess for the blog as well. Please feel to crit as I'd like some guidance on these shots.

To set the scene, Pippa, a friend who has recently quit her job to follow a career as a fashion stylist, and I decided to try our hands at a full on fashion shoot last Saturday. Here are three of the results.

The silk wedding dress, with Jeanne, was shot by metering off the sky and then underexposing while an assistant held a flashgun camera right on a boom (translated as a monopod serving as a boom) while the second model, Christine, held a polystyrene sheet to angle more light back into the face.

The second shot of Jeanne with a ice-cream was shot with a telephoto on the camera and the same technique of underexposing the ambient. this time a second strobe was held by Pippa behind Jeanne to add a rim light to the hair and to accentuate her cheekbones. The primary light was just off camera right so that it was almost in line with her nose bone so as to almost get paramount lighting.

The last shot is a simple portrait of Bevan (Pippa's partner and a friend from Gtown) against the door in our garden. A large polystyrene sheet was laid on the ground to gently put light under the face in the half shade where I had him crouch for the photo.

Any comments will be greatly appreciated. This was something completely new for me and a little daunting. The final results are probably going to be entered into Finch online magazine in an attempt to get some exposure for Pippa and myself, not that I see myself becoming a fashion photographer :) Lawks!

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