Day 108 - Desensitized.

Mostly, anyway. One of my objectives for this project is to be more comfortable looking at myself. I have come a long way in that regard to do a shot like this.

I remembered that I had a book on lighting for portraits. After I managed to locate it, I looked through it looking for something that I could try to emulate for todays POD. This one was done by a photographer by the name of Hiroshi Kutomi.

The setup was surpisingly complicated, but fortunately I had all the components. He used an 8x10 camera outfitted with a 360mm lens (my E-3 will have to suffice). His exposure was 1/125sec @ f/45. I was somewhat defeated because my lens will only stop down to f/22. Then I remembered if I used a 2x teleconverter I could get f/45!

The lighting was as follows. Key light was an umbrella behind the camera. Fill was a softbox on the floor in front of the camera. I used a softbox to light the background also. To create the shadows on the face, black foam core cards stood on either side of the subject (me).

The problem I had right off the bat was that the softbox in front blew out all of my shadows (lowest setting), so I replaced it with a white card. PP done in LR.

I am glad I found that book - I will be using it in the future when I run out of ideas for a POD

Day 108 - Desensitized.

Mostly, anyway. One of my objectives for this project is to be more comfortable looking at myself. I have come a long way in that regard to do a shot like this.

I remembered that I had a book on lighting for portraits. After I managed to locate it, I looked through it looking for something that I could try to emulate for todays POD. This one was done by a photographer by the name of Hiroshi Kutomi.

The setup was surpisingly complicated, but fortunately I had all the components. He used an 8x10 camera outfitted with a 360mm lens (my E-3 will have to suffice). His exposure was 1/125sec @ f/45. I was somewhat defeated because my lens will only stop down to f/22. Then I remembered if I used a 2x teleconverter I could get f/45!

The lighting was as follows. Key light was an umbrella behind the camera. Fill was a softbox on the floor in front of the camera. I used a softbox to light the background also. To create the shadows on the face, black foam core cards stood on either side of the subject (me).

The problem I had right off the bat was that the softbox in front blew out all of my shadows (lowest setting), so I replaced it with a white card. PP done in LR.

I am glad I found that book - I will be using it in the future when I run out of ideas for a POD