Visiting with my recent shoot with the beautiful Nozomi Takasu with this favorite. Nice, simple light from a 24×36 Glow softbox at camera left and an Interfit 36×48 softbox at camera right for fill at very low power.
Assist by: Carmen Bellos
Sony A7rIII
Sony 85mm 1.8
Godox AD300 pro strobes
Glow 24×36 softbox
Interfit 36×48 softbox
Savage light gray washed muslin backdrop
1/250 | F 6.3 | iso 100
My first article for PetaPixel just dropped on their site this morning. This one deals with using the Curves adjustment tools in Adobe Photoshop. Curves is a very powerful tool and it was hard to keep the article as short as it is (it’s not brief!). For those of you who are new to image editing, or you’re well versed but just don’t venture into curves much, I hope you find this article interesting and useful. Keep in mind the principles in this article will apply to curves adjustments in other applications such as Gimp, Affinity Photo, and others.
Below is the intro, or click here to go to the full article on PetaPixel.com
When thinking about the Curves tool in Adobe Photoshop, the phrase “With great power, comes great responsibility” is a thought that comes to mind. Curves is the most powerful tool in Photoshop for adjusting brightness, contrast, tonality, and color. All that power comes at a price and if not wielded carefully it can easily wreck an image. That’s why it’s best to work on a copied layer or use an adjustment layer when using Curves.
Read the full article here: https://petapixel.com/how-to-use-curves-in-photoshop/
Sophia’s looking pretty in pink for this week’s Headshot of the Week! This image is from our session back in October 2021 and this was the second of the three looks we did for her headshots. This one jumps out at me in particular due to her great engagement with the camera here and that energy you can just “feel”.
Assist: Carmen Bellos
Sony A7r III
Sony 85mm 1.8 lens
Godox AD600 strobes
Savage light gray washed muslin
Liz is back today leading the laughs with this “LOL Thursday” moment from our session this past weekend. The final images may look dramatic and serious but there’s no doubt we’re having fun along the way.
Assist: Carmen Bellos
Sony A7rIII
Sony 85mm 1.8
Godox AD300 strobes
Glow 24×36 gridded softbox
Savaga Universal light gray washed muslin bg
1/250th| F6.3 | iso 100
First of many to come from my shoot with the lovely Liz Buck this past weekend. Liz brought some cool outfits to work with and she had an image for inspo that led to us creating this. Here I have a 36×48 softbox outside the window with a 26″ round modifier (Raja 65) above and the left of Liz for some fill. Probably my favorite image from the day but there’s more to come so maybe you can tell me I’m wrong once I post more 🙂
Assist: Carmen Bellos
Sony A7rIII
Zeiss Batis 135mm 2.8 lens
Godox AD300 strobes
36×48 Interfit softbox outside the window through cloth drapes
Raja 65 softbox above and to camera left
Saying Nozomi is beautiful is quite an understatement. This was made quite clear during our shoot this past weekend by way of the large number of “keepers” we came away. She’s not only lovely but she really knows how work the space in front of the camera.
Assist by: Carmen Bellos
Sony A7rIII
Sony 85mm 1.8
Godox AD300 pro strobe
Glow 24×36 gridded softbox (camera left)
Savage light gray washed muslin backdrop
1/250 | F 6.3 | iso 100
Lynet is kicking off this last week of April 2022 with this Headshot of the Week! From the glasses to the necklace to those wonderful, engaging eyes Lynet really brought her A-game to my latest HCA colleague headshot session.
Sony A7rIII
Sony 85mm 1.8
Godox QS 400 strobes
Westcott X-drop background
Making up for missing my Wednesday post this week with this shot from my recent “digitals” session with the lovely Lauryn Onyx. Digitals aren’t often the time for getting shareable images but I just love the casual, genuine moment look we captured with Lauryn here.
Assist: Carmen Bellos
Sony A7rIII
Sony 85mm 1.8
Godox AD300 strobes
Interfit 36×48 softbox
Phottix Raja 65 softbox
Savage Fashion Gray background
1/250th | f 9.0 | iso 100
