Desiree Nicole Hays, the consummate professional, as usual came all prepared in period costume and with a playful attitude which made the shoot run very smoothly. She can be contacted at http://www.nicolehays.com/
Ambient light by late evening was dappled and so was used as a backlight and was then supplemented by Mitros Flash in a SaberStrip, which was fortuitous as these stand up well in windy conditions.
After the shoot is done, next comes the downloading, the weeding out of the weaker images, the selection of the stronger images, the post processing of the best images and then the final selection of the top few images from the shoot, which may be just a single image or maybe a series of images each with a different feel. At TJ Drysdale’s Workshop shoot last week, our model Victoria was very versatile so we got a number of different looks in different clothes, in different lighting situations so we had lots of artistic choices to make. It usually takes me at least a week after the shoot, to give my brain time to settle and reevaluate each decent image a few times before the final selection. Enjoy…..
Great experience with TJ Drysdale and Victoria Yore, Sunday at a Photo workshop. being inspired by seeing the shape of her dress folds, I took this image into oneOne Photo10 ( my favorite compositing software) and superimposed a skull on her dress.
I am happy with the result and the contrast between the Lively dancing young woman, and the death’s head, the living plants and dead leaves, and the Bright sunlight shining through the trees in a dappled pattern, and the dark shadows in the old stone crypt behind.
Nora on the Liberty Ship
I captured this portrait of my friend, model and fellow healthcare professional, at a recent shoot in downtown Tampa on the “American Victory” Liberty ship. She is always fun to shoot and can pull all kind of looks and styles.
I was just listening to The Art Of Photography video pocast by Ted Forbes
http://theartofphotography.tv/
It is a great source of info on the art photography world
I listened to the specific video podcast on the Fine Art specifically below and have copied the links from this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pa2XgsJS3I
It contains links to a trove of the greatest Photographers that are shown in galleries, both old masters to contemporary fine art.
I would recommend this as a great source for inspiration.
http://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists
http://www.benrubigallery.com/artists
http://www.robertkleingallery.com/gallery/main.php
http://www.afterimagegallery.com/selectnew.htm http://pdnbgallery.com/SITE/artists.html http://www.creativephotography.org/
Erin with her Pearl Earring. Erin is an enthusiastic, professional and fun model I have had the pleasure of shooting with for the third time. I thought we could try and recreate a classic painting I had seen in SanFrancisco last year. So first, homage is due to both Vermeer and Bill Gekas for inspiration, and to Erin Andie for Makeup, styling and for all the props brought at short notice. Shot at home in 20 minutes. AlienB 800 with beauty dish camera left. Photix Odin Trigger, Nikon D600, 1/200 f4.5 iso100, Tamron 90mm prime. Processing Lightroom, onOne Photo10. Amazing what processing can be done with a great patient and cooperative model and Lightroom alone. Enjoy.
Erin with her Pearl Earring
This image of the beautiful Rai Sampson from Tampa was shot in Mark Aeling’s studio at the Soft Water Studios in St Pete as part of the St Pete Art and Fashion week recently. The background is one of Mark’s magnificent moulds, from which he makes some amazing sculptures. Check out Mark’s site here
Thank you Mark for graciously allowing us to use your space. And thank you Rai for being such a sport and being so patient.
Some more photos of Rai with his sculptures are here
Lighting: AlienB800 in softbox on Left. Nikon D800 iso100,5.6 at 1/200, 28-70 2.8, at 42.
St Pete Arts and Fashion week was a whirlwind of activity with loads of Photo opportunities recently. Luckily I had access to some amazing models to make some cool images. These were of Anya Sabina Mayr who was a pleasure to work with.
Enjoy!
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I was asked to explain my portrait retouching workflow at a recent Meetup of my Strobist group. I have uploaded for your editing pleasure a spreadsheet file of these preset settings here: MichaelSheehanPhotos.com/LRCC5AdjBrushEffectPresetNos.xlsx of course you would have to add … Continue reading
I just completed editing my images from the Con and finally uploaded them for general release here. Enjoy! Thanks also to to my photobuddy Sean Neumayer, of Sean Neumayer Photography who suggested the collage above of some of the photos.
