Archive for August, 2009

D. Watts was a pleasure to shoot with because she made it easy and a few other things made this shoot go well. 1) She has a striking appearance with her blond hair style and the dress she picked suited her well.  She accessorized very well with bracelets and jewelry.  She has spent some time in front of the camera which does help. 2) The time of day was great.  It was 6PM and the evening sun was nice and warm.  3) The sunflowers was a very nice setting to match not only her style (personality and music) but the paisley dress also fit nicely. 4) Assistants.  Jeff and Brad, helped a lot on this.  If you will check out the napkin diagram below you will see how it worked.  Brad held my scrim to filter the direct sun off of Denise while Jeff reflected the sun back on her using foam core essentially creating a “Denise Sandwich.”  If you notice you can see the left side of her face you can see the foam core reflection.  I shot with a 50mm prime opened pretty wide and the rest is a bit of Photoshop retouching with color and contrast.  I added some design elements to it with brush swirls, etc.

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