I do like playing with shadows especially when it creates and adds to a portrait. The drama and mystery around shadows and darkness that it can bring to an image add interest and intrigue allowing the portrait to stand out.
Take this portrait for example, if it was completely lit and you could see her outfit and a hair at the back of the head, would it have the same interest or do you feel that the added shadows bring something extra?
Yesterday marked the Spring Equinox and with the temperature hitting 29 degrees Celsius it was the warmest day we have had for many months and with that, what better way to celebrate the onset of the warmer weather than to create the Ice Queen!!!!
This was a photo I took a few months ago and have been sitting on it as I wanted to create something special! The last few weeks it has to seen me playing around with edit and ideas, it has been creating edits, deleting edits, creating edits, asking many friends for their input and deleting my edits once again.. hahahahahah
There was also something that would always both me about my edits but I think with this image I am almost completely happy with how it has turned out so instead of spending the rest of my life editing one image I figured I would release it!!!!!
For your viewing pleasure, may I introduce you to the Ice Queen!!!!
Have you ever woken up on a Saturday morning and thought to yourself –
I really need to stop photographing so much so I can clean the house and tidy the yard so it doesn’t look like hillbilly central!!!
Nah me neither….. 🙂
If you want to see the before and after images side my side and a video how it was edited pop over to my sister site
http://www.photographicworkshop.com.au/2016/03/05/quick-portrait-edit-for-a-saturday/
With a free afternoon it is a good time to go out on location with a couple of speedlites and light modifiers to try out a few ideas that have been bouncing around in my head. yay for having some creative time. 🙂
These little lights are great for all sorts of things and give us as photographers great flexibility and creativity. You can stick them in all sorts of location and put light modifiers on theme like umbrellas.
Do you struggle with using speedlites? If so what do you find the hardest thing to understand?
A portrait session I did some time ago where I got to capture a whole heap of new faces with some terrific looks and talent.
The original image of the image below was submitted to the client with limited amount of postprocessing as they required it to be as close to as shot as possible as it was being used for their assessment in their make-up course. Now me being me I tend to go back through my images and play around with different ideas and postprocessing and this is one of those images.
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